your favorite junglist auteur

your favorite junglist auter?

  • 4 Hero (also Tom & Jerry, Manix, Tek 9, etc)

    Votes: 16 17.8%
  • Andy C/Ant Miles (all the RAMM stuff)

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • DJ Crystl

    Votes: 2 2.2%
  • DJ Hype/Ganja Kru (repping ~95-97 gangstadelic hardstep)

    Votes: 6 6.7%
  • DJ SS/Formation

    Votes: 3 3.3%
  • Foul Play (incl. Steve Gurley's solo work)

    Votes: 17 18.9%
  • Goldie/Rob Playford

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • A Guy Called Gerald

    Votes: 4 4.4%
  • No U-Turn cru (Rush/Optical/Trace/DJ Gunshot)

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • Omni Trio

    Votes: 7 7.8%
  • Photek (Aquarius, The Sentinel, Studio Pressure, etc.)

    Votes: 10 11.1%
  • Remarc

    Votes: 8 8.9%
  • Roni Size/Bristol cru

    Votes: 4 4.4%
  • Skanna

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Basement Records (Wells brothers)

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • Total voters
    90

mms

sometimes
not only that but I'd submit there's more magic in "Atlantis" than most producers put together in their whole careers...I don't even care that the synths were lifted straight from a Juan Atkins track...I think it's probably my favorite track ever regardless of genre...& it can't be nostalgia cos I was 8 years old when it came out...

it's all lifted, the track is a martin bonds track /;
he looks uncannily like bukem in that pic, its chipmunked techno + a heavy break.
 
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padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
it's all lifted, the track is a martin bonds track /;
he looks uncannily like bukem in that pic, its chipmunked techno + a heavy break.

no I familiar with "Surkit", didn't know it was just Bonds tho. thought it was him & Magic Juan? either way it's a great track of course but I still very much prefer "Atlantis"...frankly some of the comments to the video are ridiculous, people saying how Bukem should be "ashamed of himself" & such...actually there's a comment by Martin Bonds himself as well...
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
Before I decide, it's Jungle, not hardcore?

well it's whatever you like but yeah it's jungle - I mean it's "junglist auteurs" you know so I picked guys who were at least mainly junglists...that's why say Dave Charlesworth or Grant Nelson didn't get a mention...but then you have like 4 Hero who did it all from ardkore to darkside to ambient jungle to jazzy D to broken beat or whatever...
 

Benny Bunter

Well-known member
Tough choice but I've gone for Foul Play, mainly for Stepper and the Omni Trio remixes. And of the course the fact that Steve Gurley went on to make some equally wonderful 2step records. I wish he was still releasing stuff...
 

Benny Bunter

Well-known member
...and I also wish getting hold of the vast majority of this stuff on vinyl wasn't so ludicrously expensive. My jungle collection is far far too scanty :(
 

Ach!

Turd on the Run
marvelous cain - for his live dancehall crossover album / cb4 - which is incredible,
cb4

I was going to up this tune to youtube myself but I never got round to it. I remember walking to school during the summer of my GCSEs and this particular track was a favourite from a RudeFM set I had. It got seriously blasted on my walkman, absolutely IMMENSE, but I don't remember many DJs playing it at the time. Seriously intense amen pressure. It still hasn't helped me decide though...
 
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bassnation

the abyss
OK, neck on block time now. Is Alex Reece so unspeakable now? Pulp Fiction is one of the greatest jungle tunes ever, but seems to be disregarded these days as some coffee table ambient junglist bollox. I saw Mickey Finn and Ray Keith drop that in my junior junglist days in Norwich and it was a massive tune across the scene. The whole drumnbass/ jungle delineation hadn't really happened by then (or at least it hadn't in the provinces), so as far as I was aware it was jungle. And so was Basic Principles, which was also wicked.

I would go further and say he made about a dozen really great tracks, including his remixes of other people. He also made about three dozen stinkers, but, hey...

I've just got back from holiday where I read Energy Flash (surely the Dissensus entry level text), and felt Reece got a hard deal.

its suprising he didn't jump on the 2-step thing really, reckon he'd have been better at that. pulp fiction is ok, but it hardly gets the blood pumping. jungle is filled with reese bassline stormers and as mms says everything about the track is weak. someone mentioned dillinja angels fell which notably came out around the same time. i know which side of jungle i preferred.
 
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Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Personally, I reckon Pulp Fiction is a big tune, but the question is did AR have many/any tunes of a similar standard? Not sure, but I've not come across any.
 

hucks

Your Message Here
acid lab? detroit?

maybe not.

he he, I really like Detroit...

This is a good one, I think - remix of DJ Phantasy

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Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Really tough. Photek and Dilly are probably neck and neck for me, although to be honest I'm not massively familiar with some of those other producers bar a few tunes.

I'm almost tempted to vote Goldie/Rob Playford for 'Kemistry' and 'Timeless' alone- although didn't 4Hero have a big hand in Kemistry and Saint Angel?
 

matt b

Indexing all opinion
No Shy FX, no Doc Scott. No vote.

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padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
No Shy FX, no Doc Scott. No vote.

sorry but what can I say man, would've liked to include them both, 15 choice limit...

for Doc Scott - almost every tune he released up to "Shadow Boxing" is a classic but as previously mentioned his output was just so sparse...

& Shy FX I dunno - certainly he had about half a dozen absolutely massive tunes & a bunch of other good ones - actually I rate T Power out of that duo - The Self Evident Truth of An Intuitive Mind is sheer brilliance & well underrated...tho hey...
 

matt b

Indexing all opinion
sorry but what can I say man, would've liked to include them both, 15 choice limit...

for Doc Scott - almost every tune he released up to "Shadow Boxing" is a classic but as previously mentioned his output was just so sparse...

& Shy FX I dunno - certainly he had about half a dozen absolutely massive tunes & a bunch of other good ones - actually I rate T Power out of that duo - The Self Evident Truth of An Intuitive Mind is sheer brilliance & well underrated...tho hey...


Not to worry. Both were influential and rinsed out 95/96 (and onwards- what was the Shy FX spaghetti western sampling tune?)

The T Power LP has its moments (but what moments!). Second lp is pretty awful.
 

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Yay for more Shy love. :cool:

Obvious selection, perhaps, but really, does it get any better than this?:



*air horns n gun blasts*
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
also, more generally, so far...

producers it seems should've been left out;
DJ Crystl - really? no one's feeling "Meditation Remix"or "Warpdrive" or "Sweet Dreamz"? ambient jungle for sure...
Basement Records - pretty much define dark "jungle tekno" to me - undisputed auters of that particular sound; DJ Mayhem, Kev Bird, early Wax Doctor...I guess the Wells brothers were more engineers/facilitators - in the Pete Parsons/Nico/etc category
Skanna - perhaps more of a "minor classics" status here?

on the other hand I stick by RAM & I'm mildly shocked that no one's voted for Formation yet...

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producers that should've been included;
Dillinja (this one's my fault, somehow just plumb forgot him)
Shy FX/T Power

also I'm not surprised that Foul Play is leading with 4 Hero right behind...as great as he is tho bit surprised about Remarc...I guess those Planet Mu comps kind of elevated his statuts, esp. for ppl like me who weren't there at the time...
 
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