{"id":8756,"date":"2016-08-26T07:48:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=8756"},"modified":"2016-10-11T13:16:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T20:16:41","slug":"tykal-%d0%b2-%d1%80%d0%be%d1%81%d1%81%d0%b8%d1%8e-%d1%81-%d0%bb%d1%8e%d0%b1%d0%be%d0%b2%d1%8c%d1%8e-to-russia-with-love-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=8756","title":{"rendered":"Tykal – \u0412 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044e \u0441 \u043b\u044e\u0431\u043e\u0432\u044c\u044e (To Russia with Love) Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I posted something focused on International Jungle. Luckily, Ricky \/ Tykal recently sent me this mix he did of all early Jungle\/DNB from Russia. For those of you who don’t know Tykal, he’s been a source of knowledge in jungle forums (mainly but not exclusively ragga jungle-centric) for 15 years now, as well as running the ragga jungle label Trinity Don Recordings<\/a> and busy trading tunes online on soulseek etc. Ricky was one of the early people I remember packing 2000 era mixes full of seriously obscure 90’s jungle stuff, lots of which wasn’t a big deal at the time but has since gone on to be very pricey and hard to find. Also, he ran a nice blog for a while<\/a> giving away tons of record rips<\/a>… most of the links are probably dead by now but there’s still some very nice write ups and killer mixes on there. <\/p>\n

I’ll admit, I wasn’t 100% sure at first whether to post this mix. While it’s interesting to hear and there’s some really cool tunes in it, some of the tracks earlier in the mix sound later than most of the music I post on BTTO, almost more like pop music with dnb backing beats. Still, when was the last time you listened to a bunch of 90’s jungle meets Russian pop music? You’re certainly not going to her another mix this week like this one!! Big respect to Tykal for digging all these up, also big respect to Gorn and all Russian Junglists \/ VK Jungle Crew. I’d be happy to post a part 2 sometime if one of you wants to do it.
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