jungle remixes of non-jungle artists

blissblogger

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Chatting with a musician friend, he pointed to this remix as a subliminal influence on his latest release


I'd never heard it - a very nice slice of Bukem

It got me thinking about that time when the market was flooded with jungle / d+b remixes of major label artists - when the remixer would often submit basically one of their own lesser tracks with only the barest trace of the original remaining

Most would have been mercenary and cursory, but every so often there'd be something really good, and - as with the Bukem versus Shamen - there must be loads I've missed, because there was such a deluge. Nominations please

(The same thing happened with UKG and 2step era so we could have some of them too)

My own nomination for the greatest jungle rmx of a non-jungle artist follows...
 

blissblogger

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This is beautiful, prime Reinforced artcore....

I don't think I ever played the original Scarface tune until today

There's another less-vocal remix of it by 4 Hero, not nearly as good I don't think, and a boring Talkin' Loud midtempo effort, also by 4 Hero and in retrospect grimly prophetic of their turn towards broken beat
 

Benny Bunter

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There must be loads more garage ones than jungle, being much more synchronised with the pop music of the time - don't even know where to start with garage tbh
 

Benny Bunter

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Actually that fat neck one wasn't worth posting apart from completion's sake, but the scarface remixes are wicked.

There can't be all that many good jungle examples, surely? The mainstream picked up on it way after its peak
 

blissblogger

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There can't be all that many good jungle examples, surely? The mainstream picked up on it way after its peak

Feel like 96 there might have been a fair few d&B remixes out there, but my memory is coming up blank

Yes UKG / 2step there was a flood of the stuff.

The one that springs to mind instantly is an obvious one but a killer - mind you I suppose Armand V-H is not actually technically UKG himself - but maybe has honorary status, like Todd Edwards does

 

john eden

male pale and stale

I unfashionably still love all this gear. This one from 1997.

Loads of Aphrodite and Mickey Finn stuff from then onwards. Like going to a barbers where they just do one haircut: The Luniz “Five On It”, Moby, The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, lots and lots of it. Snare roll in the middle as standard.

Congo Natty did this with a load of reggae tunes too really.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
Looks like there were also Foul Play and Sounds of Life remixes of The Shamen in 1985?
 
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