Walking round london in 1992, same old same old, but walking round london in 1993, jungle everywhere, bill posters plastered all over the place, jungle on pirate radio, blasting from passing cars, Blackmarket records in soho, fuck those days were amazing!
I went to Lenny de ices house back in the day and be taught me how to produce music when I was a youth. All original raving peoppe know about his legendary tune. we are i.e.
In an alternate universe, Chumlee meets Dj Rap at Lucky Spin. Love this documentary. so much good footage from the studios, the shops and the general vibe at the time
Ive been looking for this doc for yrs. Remember seeing it on BB2 late 94´. I was bang into Jungle at the time, still love it, especially the old vibe. Good to see Shy FX, his stuff was cutting edge. Knew one of his dancers in the documentary, Harriott, top lady. Great times.
Wow. Nostalgia..90s scene was proper tings. Glad I got to experience it. Those old enough knows the vybz... with that said, I've got my headphones on couple rolled enjoying your video.. big up yourself.💥💥💯👊🏿😤💨💨
This documentary portrays Jungle as if it came out of no where. Jungle evolved off of Hardcore music!! Hardcore was the foundation to Jungle because it had the drum and bass but no Jamaican influence, M beat were the original hardcore label to play Ragga and Reggae samples with Hardcore, and back in them days it was all the pony tailed english kids that were into it. As the Ragga and reggae influence became more and more prominent then the Jamican influence got bigger and it became Hardcore Junglist and then later on Jungle. The original Hardcore raves were Labrynth, Elevation and Fantazia. Jungle was a musical merger of young british races same as Ska was before it. Long live the tunes and I feel blessed to have witnessed it and grown up with it and raved to it when it was fresh.
That's not 100% correct.. Look at acts like 4 Hero [and other tunes from that time on Reinforced] black people making 'hardcore' that wasn't about ragga/reggae samples. It sort of went 'hardcore techno' [eg Human Resource - Dominator, Zero B - Lock Up] before I reckon one of the first true Jungle tunes to employ a reggae bass line Lennie De Ice - We Are IE, breakbeats, but not really ragga sounding. Then it went OTT ragga [take yer pick!] and then D&B that left the ragga/black stuff out and was being produced by oiks from Essex in souped up Escorts. Weren't Amnesia House original hardcore nights/DJ's? It's so long ago now, I'm struggling to remember the finer details, but I think I'm correct about it not being solely white people making 'hardcore' at the very start of it all.
***** Pal, Im not suggesting that black people weren't involved in Hardcore, and Im not saying that Jungle is when black people got involved in Hardcore but more that Jungle was a merger of Hardcore and Jamaican reggae and Ragga. And at the time it brought the youth together as I can remember when most my black friends were into Ragga, but then M-beat came along and they were then raving to what it was called back then as Jungle Hardcore. The tune you have chosen as an example of firstly black influenced hardcore tunes is proof of Jungles roots being from the hardcore community. At the end of the day its the merger of two types of sounds coming together and creating a much loved and raved to movement as what we had and still have today, regardless of race. My point was that the film could have portrayed the movement as more of a multi racial sound as that is what it is and always has been. Its all about UNITY from all communities.
That's exactly how it was .. Your %right mate ... I was at them back then and remember how it all came about well .... The rocket , laser drome , fantazia at donnington castle ....
Thats exactly what Im talking about mate, Hardcore evolved at them raves you mention off of Acid house cause back in them days the main room was Acid and the other room started playing Hardcore as it got a bigger following, then Hardcore split and You had Happy Hardcore and Jungle Hardcore which then went on to become Jungle and is now known as Drum and Base. I can remember the days before Rave tapes were even being made and if someone had a tape recording of a Rave it would get rinsed, Scottie - sub nation, and Noise factory - The future were the pioneering Hardcore tunes that gave birth to the whole scene.
I lived in Bristol and put a couple of Drum and Bass nights on at Easton Community Centre in 1997. I know it sounds like a lame venue but it was definitely not. Roni Size cut his teeth there, as did the rest of Reprezent. Even the late night dance TV show BPM was there one night. The only time I have been on national television show. It was only three half-second cuts to me dancing with my jaw jutting and gurning and my eyes wider than the Blackwall tunnel, but that was my fifteen minutes! We had a few names for our nights. Flynn & Flora were the biggest. They were huge in the Bristol scene and they were awesome. Better than Goldie, Bukem, and Size. We didn't make any money and the nights were not exactly rammed, but it was a great time, and great to be able to tell you all about it rather than start this comment off saying: 'Me and my brother were going to do a drum and bass night once "
There was a bar, in Stokey, just at the top, just by the "Citi Centa Broth...Sauna" and we went in there (admittedly just to bosh some Molly) and it stank of puke. Like really overpowering, and I even saw a bucket and mop behind the counter. I could not believe it and this was a restaurant too. People were eating pizza in this place that reeked of puke. I know it was never exactly Las Vegas in that area but it has really gone to shit
Jungle you sit with me at night when i cant sleep... you relieve my stress...you change my worl every time i hear... you grew me up... you educated me... Jungle i friggin love the crazy rags lot of ya.....
I was there at the Amazon on a Friday night in Wolverhampton and was scanking to shy and UK apache. Tune was wheeled back 3 times! Later I spoke to apache on the dance floor, cool down to earth guy.
what about an Amiga ? which is what I used from 93 onwards... just for my home spun house/techno tunes with samples taken from my record collection as a DJ at the time...
I wonder how she looks now. Great to see her come out of that Red 3 series BMW - loved a lot of the cars back then, they had identity and character about them.
?? Don't blame it on ragga ? I think it was the drugs you could smell more crack in the seen late 90s 2000s crack became cool and skunk came into play where you could hardly get any Jamaican import weed .skunk took over crack as well drugs change scenes.Like in the 80s ravers ecstasy love drug and generation ect
Great doc. Herein . New york we used to pick up a lot of stuff but more from Bristol really. Obviously all the Roni size Krust stuff but before that you had the early techno jungle with Easy Grove and all the way out west stuff.
Them few weeks of transition into jungle was quality club desire,the rocket,laser drome seeing it all unfold in front of your eyes was something I will never forget💙 ecstasy paved the way for this the clubs were already packed week in week out so the music took a natural progression
yeah black people have a lot of influence everywhere, the recognition has been around for years... in fact, everything is about being black... every nation people wanna be black... and it's not even black... it's just consume consume consume... Culture is a corporations trick for humanity to blindly destroy the planet...
I went to my first “jungle party” in 1995. Athens Georgia. I was immediately hooked. Got some techniques in 1997. I went to England for 6 months in 2000. I love that jungle vibe.
Wasn't just a black thing. I amSpanish but I was on Weekend Rush in 93 and the genre split but it wasn't anything to do with race. On a ragga tip was SL2, two white DJs, Pennywise was Mickey Finn. My point is loads of white peoples liked jungle too and were involved in launching it
Pal I can remember your DJ name from back in the day and can remember when Kool and Rush were both playing out of Nightingale estate and the battles between the two over the airways, they were bloody good times man....Another station that seems to have disappeared without an echo is Eruption, they were good and were there from day dot.
Looks like Gloucester Road in Edmonton :D Good to see another N9/N18 do well! Scary what Shy FX was saying about street culture as that's exactly whats happening now in London!
I miss going to raves like '95 Brockout and shopping at the different stores for the jungle records. We had a pretty decent scene here in Chicago. Ah the good old days...
The irony is that house and techno originated in America and was created by Black people and it sounded like Black music. European DJs took the music and took all the Black out of the music. Jungle music tried to make it cater to a Black audience but it still had that lack of those hard core polyrhythmic drum from that funk and gospel sounds that existed in original house music. Even techno had some serious nice melodic flows and drum style you'll find in Black American music.
I remember watching this when it came and thinking that the “intellectual” was talking shit.. 30 odd years later and that has not changed. Good documentary until that point
All black was just the name of the programme for fuck sake and im what people call a thick northerner I was only 9 when this first broadcast and first visited London and first heard jungle and loved it ever since
the point is that it happened in Britain! it happened because of the house music scene and because of the hip hop scene! but before that you have electros bboy breaks! so it was a collision of this! with both black and white people! yes the influence of the reggae and ragga flavours came through! I was there right from the start! it came as the hardcore was starting to incorporate and isolate the breakbeat! Which gave the chance of hip hop flavours and breaks to be speeded up! eventually it became commercial and all gangsta with little kids with their caps on acting all tough! so people thought it was a black ting! it could not have happened anywhere else and with cultures!
I consider myself an OG Jungleist😂Never seen this, fucking brilliant, bought tunes off of Ash at Boogie Times, Trace & Rhyme Time, Fabio, Bukem...FFS✌️
yes, a lot of bass, and bass cures all and moves everything. i danced breakbeat in empty clubs so i never enjoyed, and didnt appreciate jungle but later as dnb. jungle is probably the best expresion of raving, as has a sexual pulse too appart from crowd deinhinibition and dont require mandatory synthetic drugs as other movenent did
Hold tight jungle massive slap and tickle crewwww... i will never ever evvverrrrr turn my back... sk8in to jungle fever... tobthe veryyyy veryyyy rooooots.......
*13;37* _I C WUT U DID THAR, VCR in the introduction!_ 😏 (heh I don't think 1337 5|D34]< had emerged online yet _[but possible; only 4-5 years later by my own experience],_ so this was likely just a coincidental time caught on camera since Britain, like many places, uses the 24hr clock)
Love this but the jungle beat has been in numerous 70s jazz funk albums (Donald byrd, etc)If anything what uk did was make more use of sampling with the jungle beat
remember watching this back in the day and just thinking it was some bullshit made by someone who had no idea of the scene and was just on some stale old "black power" bowtie bullshit vibe. but its funny i watch it today and it pisses me off, back in the day it didnt i just dismissed it.
People, even back then, seem to forget their true originators, in this particular case: Michael Alec Anthony West aka Rebel MC None of those "true" heads would ever admit him being their mentor, but his second album was the original firestarter. Also to mention are those riot sound system artists, in particular Silver Bullet and Genaside II. And the Amen Break, the founding drum loop of most of the tracks. Extensive usage of this made this "genre" so appealing to seamless mixing techniques by djs, but also having a repetive effect of boringness. Also people seem to forget that the greatest jungle and break beat dj of all time is, by far, Mickey Finn. No one can do it better...
Ltj Bukem...what a legend. He was in a genre all of his own at the time. What a shame that jungle moved away from the amen break - It turned crap about mid 95! Still listen to Bukem from late 93 to early 95 on RU-vid as it's far easier then getting my 8 packs of tapes out again.
@@h.hholmes3118 Hell no that was the peak of DnB, what really destroyed dnb was all the copy paste jump up and dancefloor stuff and the overproduced neurofunk we have now
What a sad start to what is in my opinion the best genre of music. So racist, you can only thank every one who stuck to what they believed in against a racist society and created this for EVERYONE to enjoy ✊🏻
