Anyone around when the Jungle was massive in the UK?

That bassline!

Thanks @J0nathan thats the one 👍 I'm still struggling to get the links or audio up but I've posted the full track listing. In order this time

I'm really intrigued now as to how they actually set up the space, and why they'd allow ravers all over their sports facilities. It is a big building, but I just thought most of it was the swimming pool.

I think they had a hard cover that went over the olympic pool. I don't know where I got that info from originally, but the more I think about it the more unfeasible it sounds, particularly with regards to acoustics in the pool hall and the place getting trashed with booze, pills and fag smoke. I'd have to see the video from that night but it would make much more sense for it to have been either in the big sports hall where all the basketball courts etc are (were?) or out in the running stadium (though I think they were indoors).

I'd imagine it was in the halls where they used to have the hard courts i used to do sports tournaments in there as a teenager and watched basketball ball there once so probably big enough. I've been to a few raves in leisure centres and one on a covered ice rink. They used to make decent venues as everything was on site parking, toilets, cafe/bar sometimes as long as security could keep people out of the closed off areas

Speaking of tapes, I fished this out of the loft recently when I was putting some stuff up there. Need to rip these, if they’re not on Mixcloud....

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Ha - this website is great.

https://www.mixcloud.com/jw31209/shy-fx-with-uk-apache-mc-fun-heaver-heat-jungle-fever-the-astoria-01012001/favorites/

Live PA from UK Apachi on Original Nutter at the start of this. This makes the hair stand up on my neck!

This is the one off that tapepack thou... Jeeeeeesus!!! @hippy - starts with that tune^

https://www.mixcloud.com/jw31209/nicky-blackmarket-b2b-devious-d-heaver-heat-jungle-fever-the-astoria-01012001-jungle/

This is just non stop Jungle classics with very intense MC'ing.

Just mentioned that on YT. There's more MCing than d&b in that intro track!

I love how, at 14:32, after the rewind of Lion Heart, on the drop the horns from Hearing is Believing Remix come in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8vL963RxlU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4UEHBPZsMU

Almost every tune gets a rewind.

Burial amen mix

https://dnbshare.com/download/01_burial_amen_mix.mp3.html

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👍👍👍👍 Thanks for this

Yeah good find love this 👍 Big bad and heavy 😁 playing this in the shop right now

Just seen this thread.

Still love a bit of Jump Up double dragon jungle.

Sterns worthing and lazerdrome on rare trips up to london from brighton.

Fun times.

On the jump up vibe, came across this yesterday. Nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBHoO5BkBI

http://trenchtrenchtrench.com/features/the-building-blocks-of-jungle-10-samples-that-sculpted-the-sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDn7ZDcx9w0

This is kinda neat.

This is brilliant - I love the sound of his stuff. Has he got much stuff out on vinyl? I know there was that recent 'After Hours' remix he did.

Looks like N4 does put out vinyl. Gotta start acquiring...

https://www.discogs.com/label/1598227-N4-Records-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceXGhppCAOg&feature=emb_logo

<3 <3 <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVHDQC80Fs

Here's one for today. First class....

Might as well plug one of my jump up mixes for you :)

https://hearthis.at/theorie/theorie-mix-the-jump-up-vol2/

Undercover Agent - Hypnosis - Juice

BJam - Funkula - No Smoking
BJam - Funkula (DJ Hype Remix) - No Smoking
The Dream Team - Different - Joker
Paul Z - Yeah - Prophecy
The Dream Team - Raw Dogs (Shy FX Remix) - Suburban Base
The Prisoners of Technology - Delikutt Beats (Remix) - Fresh Kutt
MA2 - Hearing Is Believing (Remix) - Formation
The Prisoners of Technology - Trick of Technology - Fresh Kutt
The Prisoners of Technology - FEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLL- Fresh Kutt
Dope Skillz - No Diggidy - True Playaz
Aphrodite - No Diggity - White Label Bootleg
TNT - Check Dis Out - Live
DJ SS - The Lighter (Mix2) - Formation
DJ Rap - Roughest - Proper Talent
Tribe of Issachar (feat. Top Cat) - His Imperial Majesty - Congo Natty
Remarc - R.I.P (Remarc Remix) - Suburban Base
DJ SS - Black (V.I.P Mix) - Formation
DJ SS - Limb By Limb - Suburban Base
Darkman - Dis Sound Ruff - Rinse Out
Dred Bass - What The Time Dred - Second Movement

Been listening to this a lot this week. Some original unplayed copies were recently discovered by Bill Vega who runs Liftin Spirits. Never get tired of that Genesis sample. Uplifting business. Mad to think Andy C was probably about 15 when he made this.

https://youtu.be/socgLH4MTV0

I’ve found this guy before because he’s running Octamed as his tracker. Me and my brother used to use that to make tunes back in the day on his Amiga 1200 (and on the 500 before that). I can’t remember if this fella uses an emulator or if he’s running a hopped up Amiga.

So, this week I learned on here that there are in fact 7 mixtapes from that rave at Crystal Palace. My one was the 7th set. I also spotted something on my tape inlay I’ve never noticed before - see pic.

I bought that tape in Lucky Spin records on Kings Road. I remember going up the steps at the back of the shop and I vaguely remember seeing the tapes in a line in a glass counter. Lucky Spin then became Section 5 and was owned by Moving Shadow. I didn’t know that. Now look, I realise it was a bit dim of me to not make the link that the short bloke called Nicky I used to talk to behind the counter at Blackmarket Records was, uh, Nicky Blackmarket, but how the fuck did I not know that either? We went in there all the time because the Our Price on the corner kept quite a lot of hardcore on the shelf and then on up to the Bluebird Garage where there was a live DJ. It was always worth the trip there for music.

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