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A recreation of the jungle set I played at Tropical Dreams festival 2022

Tropical Dreams Festival 2022

Broken beat, or bruk, is intrinsically collaborative. Its London originators often recorded together, taking inspiration from jazz, hip-hop, deep house, drum & bass and Afrobeat. Because the genre was born of fusion, it brought together heads from all corners of the music spectrum—sound system purists to junglists to Latin Nuyorican aficionados—who each resonated with bruk's complex rhythms in their own ways.

Ian Grant, AKA IG Culture, is an early pioneer of bruk, and his story underlines the style's synergetic nature. Starting out as an MC, he struck fame in the early '90s as one half of Dodge City Productions but quickly grew disillusioned with the major label business. After immersing himself in early George Duke records, Fela Kuti, Fuji music, The Headhunters and the like, he started experimenting in the studio. The jazz inspiration, plus his roots in reggae and background in hip-hop and acid jazz, led to his now-seminal, late '90s productions as New Sector Movements—widely considered as the starting point in bruk history.

Since then, Grant has kept building infrastructure for the hybrid sound. Alongside Bugz in the Attic, Phil Asher, Dego of 4hero, Demus and Orin Walters, he cofounded the legendary CoOp party, which became a meeting place for diverse musical minds and enabled bruk to keep evolving. Grant remains deeply committed to co-creating, as seen by the Selectors Assemble artist collective he runs with Alex Phountzi (the two are also known as NameBrandSound), his releases with Psykhomantus as Shall I Bruk It, his Afrofuturist take on bruk as Likwid Continual Space Motion and various other projects.

On his RA Podcast, the veteran artist presents a forward-thinking portrayal of bruk, adjacent styles that were directly inspired by it and other global club cuts. There are cerebral, jazzy cuts from his CoOp label, Nigerian cruise music, percussive UK garage, 2-step swing, dancehall dub and much more. This is Grant's world, where rhythmic and swung beats reign supreme.

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Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/897

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RA.897 IG Culture

1	.	Wil Bolton	.	Sixteen Arbitrary Functions	.	Red to Orange, Blue to Black
2	.	Mary Yalex	.	Building A Better Future	.	Fantasy Zone
3	.	Mary Yalex	.	Echoes	.	Fantasy Zone
4	.	Ochre	.	Evacuation	.	An Eye to Windward
5	.	Ochre	.	Fiddlehead	.	An Eye to Windward
6	.	Arovane	.	Fern	.	Sinter
7	.	Roel Funcken	.	Jimbacrinus Crinoid	.	The Candarian Ruins EP
8	.	Viul & Benoît Pioulard	.	Tress	.	Konec
9	.	Ard Bit	.	nofriends2	.	unreleased
10	.	Arovane & Taylor Deupree	.	Pfad_Onset	.	Skal_Ghost
11	.	Ard Bit	.	03_4	.	Unreleased 2023
12	.	Wil Bolton	.	Skymning	.	Södermalm In Autumn
13	.	Yui Onodera	.	Mizuniwa 5	.	Mizuniwa
14	.	Roel Funcken	.	Trideo Vaperz	.	... and darkness came
15	.	Mary Yalex	.	Half Light Of Dawn	.	Fantasy Zone
16	.	Viul & Benoît Pioulard	.	Performance	.	Konec
17	.	Deaf Center	.	Divided	.	Owl Splinters
18	.	Cliff Martinez	.	Is This What Everybody Wants	.	Solaris
19	.	ASC	.	The Eternity Barrier	.	Fervent Dream
20	.	arovane	.	cantell	.	polymer
21	.	Wil Bolton	.	Folding Triangles	.	Red to Orange, Blue to Black
22	.	Yui Onodera	.	Mizuniwa 4	.	Mizuniwa
23	.	Erik K Skodvin	.	Moving Mistake	.	Flame
24	.	Rafael Anton Irisarri	.	RH Negative	.	The Shameless Years
25	.	Illuha	.	Vertical Staves Of Line Drawings And Pointillism	.	Akari
26	.	Ard Bit	.	08_edit03_3-	.	Unreleased 2023
27	.	KMRU	.	just	.	epoch
28	.	Pjusk & Arovane	.	Circles	.	Svev
29	.	Pjusk & Arovane	.	Scrutiny	.	Svev
30	.	AES DANA	.	Beneath	.	ENFOLD 01
31	.	SOLO ANDATA	.	Laugh Shattered	.	IN THE LENS
32	.	K'an	.	Vessel, Phoneme	.	Babel
33	.	SONMI451	.	The Circadian Clock (lazy afternoon remix)	.	DIGISEEDS
34	.	Tim Hecker	.	Sketch 5	.	Dropped Pianos
35	.	Ard Bit	.	05_11	.	Unreleased 2023
36	.	KMRU	.	Along A Wall (digital bonus)	.	Dissolution Grip
37	.	KMRU	.	resonant sharing	.	epoch
38	.	Abul Mogard	.	The Roof Falls	.	Above All Dreams
39	.	Taylor Deupree	.	Burnt Island	.	Eev
40	.	arovane	.	servo	.	polymer
41	.	KMRU	.	in pieces	.	epoch
42	.	Ard Bit	.	06_1	.	Unreleased 2023
43	.	Ard Bit	.	07_7	.	Unreleased 2023
44	.	Pjusk & Arovane	.	Open Water	.	Svev
45	.	Pjusk & Arovane	.	Repro	.	Svev
46	.	Pjusk & Arovane	.	Hover	.	Svev
47	.	Jake Muir	.	Nilas	.	Compiled
48	.	Alphaxone	.	Apophenia	.	Subdistance
49	.	Viul & Benoît Pioulard	.	A Real Place (Coda)	.	Konec
50	.	Markus Guentner	.	Neuromantic	.	Extropy
51	.	Huerco S	.	Lifeblood (Naïve Melody)	.	For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
52	.	David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette	.	In His Ghostly Heart	.	The Meridians Of Longitude And Parallels Of Latitude
53	.	vau	.	slight movements	.	ways of stillness
54	.	arovane	.	ajatik	.	polymer
55	.	Yui Onodera	.	Mizuniwa 1	.	Mizuniwa
56	.	Yui Onodera	.	Mizuniwa 2	.	Mizuniwa
57	.	Jake Muir	.	El Matador	.	Compiled
58	.	Viktor Orri Árnason and Yair Elazar Glotman	.	Hljóð	.	Vast
59	.	Monadh	.	Calanque	.	Muara
60	.	Wil Bolton	.	Red to Orange, Blue to Black	.	Red to Orange, Blue to Black
61	.	Zimoun	.	ModularGuitarFields I	.	ModularGuitarFields I-VI
62	.	Pjusk & Arovane	.	Staro	.	Svev
63	.	Yann Novak	.	The Part of Her That Could Feel Was Gone	.	Reflections of a Gathering Storm
64	.	loscil	.	Equivalent 3	.	Equivalents
65	.	Toàn	.	Hadale	.	Volta No Vento
66	.	Ard Bit	.	01_6	.	Unreleased 2023
67	.	Ard Bit	.	02_3_01	.	Unreleased 2023
68	.	Aris Kindt	.	New Gods of Prudence	.	Swann and Odette
69	.	Roel Funcken	.	Promethean Plunder	.	Promethean Plunder
70	.	Funckarma	.	Emplixian Ambient	.	touched two
71	.	Roel Funcken	.	Pole	.	S1.mk2

Ambient.Oct.2023

Themed and comprehensive voyages into the depths of jazz from the mind of Black Classical.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/black-classical-history-of-spiritual-jazz/episodes/black-classical-history-of-spiritual-jazz-part-1

Black Classical - History of Spiritual Jazz Part 1 030916

Dawn moods for the early birds, courtesy of Sleepier & Impey aka Spirit Blue.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-spirit-blue/episodes/early-bird-show-spirit-blue-11th-september-2024

The Early Bird Show w/ Spirit Blue 110924

Impromptu mix of tracks that feel "OCTOBERish" to me (dark yet beautiful mp3s mixed in Rekordbox on Pioneer DJ DDJ-FLX4). Thanks for listening!

DJMixes

Devil's Night Part 1

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-9th-january-2025

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo & Vittoria Totale 100125

Songs I've been listened to on repeat, lots of 2025 releases

SITWSM: 24th June '25

Seven and a half exhilarating hours from one of modern club's sharpest.

Tim Reaper's mammoth entry for RA.1000 is all about range. You thought the Future Retro London boss was just a jungle and hardcore head? Think again.

The mix's infinite-scroll tracklist (the longest we've ever published in full!) includes a who's who of top-rate producers, from A Guy Called Gerald and Cari Lekebusch to Batu, Mia Koden and the one and only Shackleton.

Opening with weighty grime and ending on head-spinning drum & bass, the mix journeys through US club, wobbly dubstep, classic techno and, of course, many shades of jungle. Rather than go the easy route, the Londoner approached the assignment with the curiosity, integrity and vulnerability of fellow shapeshifters like dBridge, Calibre and ASC.

"The idea was to represent other styles of electronic music that I've been a bit self-conscious about openly expressing my interest in," he told RA.

RA.1000 isn't just another side of Tim Reaper's artistry: thankfully for us, it feels like only the beginning.

@tim-reaper

Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1012. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Tim Reaper

A mix by Old Apparatus recorded to accompany an interview on the Quietus.

Devil's Night Part 1

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