new dnb mix
some of my fav tunes this year. 29 tunes in 45 minutes...mixed on my laptop, cant mix vinyl and a lot of these were digital only releases anyway
this is the noisy stuff, not the chilled or melodic type of drum n bass
stream: http://soundcloud.com/user2316397/defchrisjanjune2010dnbmix
download: http://soundcloud.com/user2316397/defchrisjanjune2010dnbmix/download
this is the noisy stuff, not the chilled or melodic type of drum n bass
stream: http://soundcloud.com/user2316397/defchrisjanjune2010dnbmix
download: http://soundcloud.com/user2316397/defchrisjanjune2010dnbmix/download
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I generally prefer the wobble/jump up style tunes when it comes to new stuff but obviously you cant beat the classic era...ganja kru, full cycle, formation recs etc also like hardcore before it became cheese happy hardcore, stuff like vibes + wishdokta etc...
the only dnb I really don't like is the mega-cheesy style like pendulum.
prodigy jnr.. errmm pendulum + m-beat are my faves ;)
I grew up and got into to by accident.. was kinda hard not to kickin (hardleaders etc) / production house / no u turn and of course reinforced are well all local labels. (all with 5-15 minutes drive)
I got to know someone who made stuff, used to sort them out with c64 demos.. and got to know more people from that.
dunno if you remember a label called warrior dance.. that's going back 20 years now.
wishdokta did a rather interesting album with james hyman for kickin.hehe
but yer when it became cheesy I took the jungle root. There are a few HH tunes I like but they are VERY few.
a lot of folks used amiga's to do the drum editing though as samplers (akai's) weren't exactly cheap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVSe9DubE8&feature=related
is one you prolly know :)
Ooo, I wonder whose YouTube channel that is?
Another one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG1CLi_Fjkw
*unless I am confused
yours... but the thing that threw me, your well / were quite young when you did em? folk like j majik / dillinja were also young though..
I saw it when I was look for amiga stuff elsewhere, a friend did the tunes for extreme racing on amiga yeeeeeeears ago, dunno you ever heard em.
I just got a 1200 with a CF card in ,never owned one.. but it's nice :) I started on octamed on a a500 though.
here's an oldie, notice the sample 1:30 in.. but they did some bizarre tunes.
the funniest thing was , dunno if you had the hardleaders 4 cd ? well the picture on that is a robotic woman.... it was from no-u-turn's office / studio years ago.
the guy who painted the walls there, toby, sold a photo to kickin.hehe
30 mins in - all good so far :)
Yeah, that's me, the one you're thinking of uses The Message ;)
Dillinja is actually a year younger than me I think. He was releasing stuff as far back as 93, so that would make him about 16 or 17 at the time. I was messing around on the Amiga when I was 18, but not doing it seriously, I'm not sure I ever did do it seriously really :D It was only when I got in contact with Aphrodite, because of the Amiga connection and the fact that his drums were amazing, that things started to happen. I was 21 by the time Don't Believe got finished, so not as young as Dillinja when I started.
Stands out a mile! You know where you are? You're in the jungle baby! That was used in a DnB tune a few years back too IIRC.
I haven't really listened to much DnB for the last 7 years, I prefer listening to and making more oldskool sounding stuff. Micky Finn is after bringing back 95/96 jungle at the moment too. His sets are quite noisy these days, but it's not all noise, there's some ragga jump up in there too, which is better than the noise to me, although still a bit uninspiring - http://dnbshare.com/download/mickyfinnkoolfmmay2010.mp3.html - I wish people would be more into making the tune than eqing the snares, DnB has lost it's detail, and it's element of surprise because people don't write proper tunes any more, they write loops that build up to a drop which then loops around itself until the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZiRQ0bzGds
The logo for the game rings bells, but not the music. I do remember a racing game with a jungle soundtrack that was a demo on one of the amiga mags cover disks. It sounded a bit like Aphrodite (specifically like Fire remix or Arsonist), but it wasn't.
nice one alan
thanks mel
ah yeah that's it! knew it was one of those oldies...
Probably all designed by Junior Tomlin. http://www.juniort.mailbox.co.uk/artluv-1.html
Junior he did load of Kickin's stuff (I scanned all the covers in for their first website , as well as making it).. Toby did that pic though, and a few more , he worked with someone to do the torque album cover also. Talented artwise , but he was supposed to being doing anims for a friends video and just wasted time/didn't finish it/vanished
Druggies, Stoners what ever you wanna call em...
TWATS
but what do you listen to ? it's an interesting one.. there are about 10 tunes I would play to someone , and they'd like em.. and I'd say...but you don't like DnB ;) .. your reminding me of that :)
Not really maybe nowadays with it's 50 million easy listening catergory spin offs, but I used to be into it back in about 92/93.
Infact I actually used to listen to Wear FM (I know a Maccum station, but it was worth it) every friday night between 92-94/95 when they used to do a D n' B session every week. It was just "Jungle" then. I've never really been a chav/charva although I did go through a slight Raver phase (funnily enough when I was really young), which lasted all of about 2 weeks until I realised rave was infact utter shite. Now that's twat music!
When I went through my early "Junglist" phase I had big long hair, and infact remember me and a few of my mates being chased out of Bass Generator (the only shop in Newcastle back then where you could buy Drum n' Bass records, it would be a year or 2 before General Levi released "Incredible") by a bunch of rabid raver and hardcore types because they thought we were hippies and we shouldn't be in that shop. Wankers!
Couldn't get moved for radgees in that shop at one time on the weekends the ravers would be in there looking for Rez type shit, and midweek all the scallies would be in their blowing their hard earned giros on crap like Hardcore Masif, and the new white label from Technohead :lol:
But I remember all the radgee types not liking drum and bass cos' it was just "speeded up rave", and too fast to "dance" to (If you call dancing standing there E'ing out of your mind with a whistle in your mouth attempting to trip off the 3 different coloured glow rods you have wedged between your fingers on each hand like a complete ****ing spastic dancing?).
Infact i remember when old "Jungle" classics like The Helicopter weren't even classics, they were new and fresh and "underground" :lol:
I suppose if I have to choose any stupid sub cetergories of Drum n' Bass that I like nowadays I'd say Intelligent, Darkside, and Hardstep, worlds apart I know but hey whatever?
Basically to cut all that babble above short I love D n' B and am not a Chav/Charva/Radgee/Ned whatever you want to say so ner! :p
I have never owned a Berghaus Jacket or a pair of Rockport shoes either :D
we played a prank on 2 of my friends.. A friend had a seriously bassed out golf gti.. remember the start? with the blades and then the THUD? he dropped that on em. to give you an idea the bass basically pushed your chest..hehe
one of em jumped outta their skins.. was well funny. He was also a programmer and part of the reason why roll cage had all them tunes in, there were more but they couldn't license em.
he followed us in his car one day from harrow.. 5 cars behind you could still here the bass (to give you an idea). we useds to go to the odd sound off as well.
I do remember going to a station , transmission 1.. it was a squat in a tower block once.. the dti were always taking their Ariel.. either that or it was a rival station
had been that way for ages.. errm partly due to how much sampling you can get away with.. and well how EP's went.. 7 minutes ... where it was 3-5 before (4 track EP's ALL THE WAY).. and it's just padded out... and the whole you need 2 tunes mixed to get one that sounds fine on it's own. It's about money or thats how it seemed, and people not taking risks.
I am well impressed with "phaser" the speccy music prog though.
the newest DnB subgenre Im aware of is 'microfunk', imagine someone asking you what music you liked and you said "Im into microfunk", lol
92, 93? ****in new skool lol
we were going to blues clubs and stuff back in 90, 91 :)
even with crusty clothes, green dreads and flourescent jackets....oh and the special brew and weed :P
Slight difference in 1990 I was aboot 12, you auld bastid ;)