Anyone around when the Jungle was massive in the UK?

I think it was part of the jazz thing a couple of years before too...

Yeah in the eighties and the boozers around there used to be a right bundle of laughs

Yeah in the eighties and the boozers around there used to be a right bundle of laughs

That was me, what are you saying ?

YouTube - Ali G & Mc Vapour - Jungle is Massive (HD)

and da reeeal ting,

YouTube - M-Beat featuring General Levy Incredible Renk records

probably the main track to crossover into the mainstream. if a compilation album was made this track was always included.

Why did the Lion get lost?

Because Jungle is Massive.

We did that already.

i love bryan gee

Dilinja. Mampi Swift. Boymerang. Andy C.
Good old days.

yer 'the jungle' was great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikA1BgZ4b3Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fcMbAHLXBo&feature=fvst

Yes, I went to camden palace, when it was CAMDEN PALACE, not fucking KOKO.

I went there when it first became the Music Machine.

Not the Time Machine?

Summer of 1977. Saw The Police, who were atrocious, play there as support for the Boys, who were brilliant. Later, went there for the Sid Vicious Benefit Concert with The Clash heading the bill. Must have gone there a few other times but memories fade....

AWOL at the Paradise Club in Islington.

Micky Finn
Kenny Ken
Randall
Dr S Gachet
Darren Jay

And of course - MC GQ. Nuff said.

That was jungle. Everynight down there was amazing. The pills were pure, the choons were HEAVY and everyone loved everyone else (or at least thats how it seemed to me!) Had the best nights outs down there.

I swear Dj Hype was driving the 242 from homerton a couple of years ago!

Summer of 1977. Saw The Police, who were atrocious, play there as support for the Boys, who were brilliant. Later, went there for the Sid Vicious Benefit Concert with The Clash heading the bill. Must have gone there a few other times but memories fade....

That must have been awesome, sometimes I so wish I had a time machine, even if it was just to visit some of the best gigs of yesteryear.

"The pills were pure, the choons were HEAVY and everyone loved everyone else (or at least thats how it seemed to me!)"
+1 on that.

two words "Slamming Vinyl".. I remember pirate radio & bomber jackets & rebok classics.. Good times
Junglist Massive m8

I swear Dj Hype was driving the 242 from homerton a couple of years ago!

ha! if anything it would be the 254, i swear it has the craziest passengers in london

Drum and bass at the Bass Clef first put Hoxton on the map; it was fun down there.

It was the 'Blue Note' by the time Metalheadz and Anokha was on there.

I remember looking at maps before that time and Hoxton was definitely there.
In fact I remember going to raves down on Shoreditch High Street wayy beofre that, it was already a happening place then, all the art crowd had been moving in there from about '88 ish.

I think it was part of the jazz thing a couple of years before too...

Well, Bass Claf was a jazz club, I think the Afro&Latin scene was quite good there, I have a compilation record from the club released in about '85 with a lot of great UK-based artists on it. But the one Big Night there was Normal Jay's Original Rare Groove Show, monday nights, the first regular licensed all nighter in London Town I have heard it said. Used to run 'til about 5 am. It was WICKED. It ran for years and years. Anyone who was slagging off Norman on the 'overrated' thread obviously never went to THAT. I was heavily into dub and acid and all the On-U funk at the time, and it totally re-wired my brain to hear rootsy soul funk music in a different way. It was truly legendary. I have never seen any DJ drop the way he did the first time I went there - everyone was chilling, you smoke herb in there, sitting down and socialising (really actually meeting each other not just blanking each other). The lights were quite high and the music quite chill and low. Then, Norm came on the mike at 12 on the dot. Gave a little preamble hello and welcome to my night, the lights dropped a bit, the volume got cranked and he dropped this record (god If I knew what it was now!) and everybody - I mean EVERYBODY - in the room went utterly bonkers. Noone was sitting down. The tables and chairs were basically upturned and the place was electric for about 5 hours after that. Never been to a club night as good as that first time I went there. That was near the end of it, I was about 18 so it was '90.

All that's ^ just for Jamas really. And anyone else who cares.

3-2-1 you're back in the room

oldskool

fuck it.. cant embed the video i want... so i'll just link it.
Super Sharp Shooter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2KZoWLot0g

Just realised that The Original Rare Groove show can;t have been the first all nighter, as The Four Aces was all night and always legal for long time before that.

You just did kevin!

used to go to the leisure lounge to see the metalheadz in mid 90's
is that jungle ? more d&b but i guess it derived from somewhere

used to go to manchester in the early 90's hacienda / manchester uni on tuesday nights massive raves everybody loved up, slipmatt / top buzz / dj carl cox / easy rider
life was far simpler back then

I used to listen to one in the jungle alot and then got to go to a few good free parties but really missed the jungle (a little too young) and was more around for the drum and bass era Helter Skelter in the sanctuary.

I posted this before but what the fuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3z4t0XJEr0

I always preferred the basshead stuff that sort of gave birth to that scene: I suppose its all part of the Hardcore thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w63kym-45E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v84mJACUmu8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gROQ6fLOiCQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlcsjM57vM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE0oQS56_-A&feature=PlayList&p=50EB3472277FC46E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=64

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@ tommy Great minds (old farts?) think alike!