Jungle Mixes

Ltj Bukem & Mc Conrad - Cream (Courtyard) Nation - Liverpool - 25-8-96

Look around today’s musical mainstream, and you’ll quickly realized that dance styles are everywhere, filling stadiums, topping charts, and gathering tens of thousands in festivals around the country. Yet few know their full history. “Roots and Future” explores how a community of (primarily) black British musicians, fans, D.J.s, and radio pirates recreated dance music in the United Kingdom during the 1990s and 2000s.

Connected to the musical mainstream during 1989’s drug and rave fueled “second summer of love,” these  musicians learned to combine American hip-hop, dancehall toasting, dub bass, and techno euphoria to create style after chart-topping style, from drum-twisting jungle to the slick sounds of garage, the ferocious rhythms of grime, and the all-encompassing low-end of dubstep. We’ll speak to legendary pirate radio D.J.s, underground label owners, and groundbreaking producers. We’ll check young M.C.s spitting their bars on illegal frequencies, and hear veterans playing to their beloved audiences. And most importantly? We’ll rave. See you on the dance floor.

 #733 Roots and Future: A History of U.K. Dance
Producer: Sam Backer
Airdate: June 23rd 2016

Roots and Future: A History of U.K. Dance

Paul Woolford’s Special Request alias has developed into so much more than the jungle and breakbeat project it started as. Proof of that comes this month with his Belief System LP, a magnum opus spread across four slabs of vinyl. The first half is a techno trip full of visceral twists and turns scattered with references to his love of pirate radio. The second half is the soundtrack to a fatalist mind movie that is dark and broody. Woolford’s mastery of sound design elevates the whole thing to a new level, and listening to it is as absorbing and complete an experience as you could wish for. 

As a DJ with many years experience under his belt, his work in the booth is just as essential. In his Dekmantel Podcast he takes us on an unpredictable roller coaster that veers from sparkly New York disco through to haunted beats, twisted electro and monstrous techno. Spin backs, face melting basslines, rave and punishing drums make it as much a party starting main room mix as a heads down let’s ‘av it marathon. It’s fun, full on and pushes and pulls you in many different directions without ever letting the energy levels dissipate.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 142 - Special Request

117 All Dayer At The Victoria

117 All Dayer At The Victoria - 04.01.18 - DJ LEE (95 Set)

A bootleg recording of my set on WECU on mixlr.com 

Wasn't able to catch the opening of the set so it starts at the 4th record, in the middle of 'Nebula - Rhodes Tune' 

Around the 23 min mark, there is silence and the recording cuts off for a bit. 

enjoy my trainwreks <3

2020 - 11 - 28 Andromeda All - Vinyl Set On WECU, (mixlr.com - Wecu)

Meaux