Anyone around when the Jungle was massive in the UK?

Nice! That’s one of my favourite mixes I did. I had a plan for another one and - related to your pick there of Nasty Ways, an all female-vocal jungle mix. In fact, I am going to start pulling all of those out and will share videos in here - will try my best to record the mix during lockdown.

Nasty Ways was huge. You’d probably like all of the Cybotron LP. I Told You How to Rock was massive in the clubs too, but pretty much every track got rinsed. Has aged pretty well, but a lot of the stuff that came after didn’t and still doesn’t do much for me. E.g. Twist ‘Em Out and Fast Car, they’d fall into a subgenre at the time that was disparagingly called ‘clown step’. As for jungle vs drum and bass, I’d say that all jungle is drum and bass, but not all drum and bass is jungle, if that makes sense. There’s always been debate and arguments about what constitutes what and all the naming and pigeonholing of it all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_and_bass

Here’s the whole LP in one vid:
https://youtu.be/7ICf7ueKqpo

I Told You How to Rock.
https://youtu.be/9KGSdt0JFC0

I’m not getting into bashing these two and clown step in general, especially given that I could post 30 or more essentially perfect Dillinja tracks, but I just don’t get them. They would have worked in the clubs and there was obviously a market for it, it just does nothing for me personally.

https://youtu.be/CTw-CNrJ_YQ

https://youtu.be/f0EhdMR4yW8

Kind of related, I randomly heard a bit of this tune earlier. It is on one of Dillinja’s labels, along with Lemon D. I always loved it and it seems to be cheap, especially compared with Test 2. Atmospheric, futuristic amen rinse out.

https://youtu.be/-rDCjslbQBM

Always forget how awesome Test 2 (Hard Noize) is. Prices have gone up and up and never got one. That might have to finally change.

https://youtu.be/u6ghvOSzPT0