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Northern Front Records 1st Release

Artwork By Mark McGuinness

Response & Need For Mirrors- Ruins

Detonation is ready to explode!

26 artists from 13 different countries. 22 Tracks. A fine selection of Drum & Bass, Halftime & Footwork-Jungle. 

Like our previous compilations, Detonation will be available under Bandcamp’s “name your price” option and the proceeds will be donated to seashepherd.org.

Free Download

Maok 7 - Unovalo

Javano - Thurning / Southbound / Feel

Ben Funks presents the Diffrent Music show on Subtle Radio. This month, BrandNewTrumpets discusses her new EP 'The Workers', working herself through lockdown, and a campaign to fund life-saving Public Access Bleed Kits.

For more information on how you can support this campaign head here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ycsn-an-angel-gained-in-august

Read a story about how one of these kits saved a life in Essex:
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/watch-brave-mum-gives-life-18251398

Plus we announce the winner of the #10YearsOfDiffrent Remix competition, and host a special mix of all the entries put together by Lakeway.

BrandNewTrumpets 'The Workers' is available for pre-order now (out 4th September): https://brandnewtrumpets.bandcamp.com/album/the-workers-ep

Tracklist: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEoiLMOFcRn/

Diffrent Music x Subtle w/ Ben Funks, BrandNewTrumpets & Lakeway (August 2020)

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“Firstly, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who supported the last Sub System releases which were a complete sell out” Sam Missing recounts. “That was at the start of lockdown and I am sure like many it’s been a surreal year but even with the clubs currently closed, the music must go on!  So here we are, launching the next three Sub System releases under the banner ‘Three From ‘93’.  Like most of our projects, these releases were formed through chance encounters and the very few degrees of separation that seem to exist in the jungle universe!  It wasn’t clear until the end of the project that we realised there was a very clear direction these releases had gravitated to, and that was the foundation year of 1993! Let me explain…” 

(Very much like how things pan out for me with Vinyl Fanatiks, when things flow organically, the jungle gods align and the synchronicity of the universe guides a projects direction).

“First up we have ‘Jack it Operator’ which comes with the incredible Fracture remix. This all came about because I went to Jungle Jam at The Cause in Tottenham just before Christmas last year. John Foul Play was spinning and dropped my recent release on Sub System; “X Amount of Dubs”. I was also lucky enough to have my old Kemet classic ‘The Box Reopens’ given a rinse by Uncle Dugs, so I was buzzing. Not only that but Kenny Ken played an amazing set with a slew of jungle rollers followed by an epic back to back between Fracture and Sherelle. I left the night inspired and over next few days quickly sketched out a track which captured the vibes of the night. The result being ‘Jack it Operator’; a stripped back steppa with a hooky reggae vocal sample and King Tubby style bouncy bassline.  The track turned out to be a more modern vibe than old skool jungle. So I really felt that it needed a remix which was more on the 160 tip, a bit like what Fixate previously did for us on Sub System. But who to ask???” 

“After his awesome set at Jungle Jam, I felt that Fracture was an obvious person to approach. We had spoken previously about possible remixes but we hadn’t met in person. Coincidentally, he also lives in Hackney and we had a few mutual friends through our kids but our paths hadn’t crossed. Fate then played a big part in things as one of my kids had a birthday party to go to a few weeks after Jungle Jam and who do I bump into there but Charlie Fracture! We now have a chance to meet in person for a ‘fractured’ conversation as we deal with madness and constant interruptions that a kid’s birthday party throws at you! We never got the chance to chat properly but a few weeks later we hit lockdown and time is on both our hands, so we pick up the conversations via email and I ask him if he would be up for a remix of a new tune I had made called ‘Jack It Operator’. He jumps on it and quickly hands in a killer 160 mix which is not just an incredible remix but channels the vibes of 1993 and takes me back to that time of crossover between jungle and hardcore with tunes like The House Crew’s ‘Euphoria’. He totally smashed the remix and lit the first ’93 candle that Brent and I hadn’t yet realised was a theme!  It was premiered on the Hospital Podcast and even got a rewind, which is rare for an online podcast! Things looked positive”.

Missing 'Jack it Operator' - SSR004

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It’s been only a few months since I was last interviewing Sam AKA Missing. Our relationship came about via chance. Sam was working in a Bournemouth studio alongside Bernie AKA Mr. Time from Tearin Vinyl. I was already chatting to Bernie about re-releasing some of the Tearin back catalogue as Ellis Dee had introduced us. So when myself and Sam linked, I knew destiny was mapping out a new direction and a repress of Sam’s self-released 1994 banger ‘Missing - Volume One’ was needed on Vinyl Fanatiks. As things do, a natural progression continued, with conversations steering towards releasing some vinyl together. Sam already had the vehicle, Sub System Recordings, which he had released a digital only track on a few years previous. Perfect. Earlier this year we launched the vinyl arm of the label to huge success but more material was required and consequently a new story unfolded, one that Sam describes to me;

“Firstly, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who supported the last Sub System releases which were a complete sell out” Sam Missing recounts. “That was at the start of lockdown and I am sure like many it’s been a surreal year but even with the clubs currently closed, the music must go on!  So here we are, launching the next three Sub System releases under the banner ‘Three From ‘93’.  Like most of our projects, these releases were formed through chance encounters and the very few degrees of separation that seem to exist in the jungle universe!  It wasn’t clear until the end of the project that we realised there was a very clear direction these releases had gravitated to, and that was the foundation year of 1993! Let me explain…” 

Demagrafiks - A new name for the scene but the people behind it are far from new, they both had an important role in the foundation of the jungle sound and the 2020 lockdown finally brought them together for the first time. Up steps M-Beat alongside Missing!  Sam explains how this collaboration came about.

 “Although we were both producing in the 90’s I had never met M-Beat before but of course it goes without saying that he was a huge inspiration for me back in the day! I was initially introduced to him last year by a mutual acquaintance, Steve, who used to work at Renk Records in the 90s golden era. Myself and M-Beat met up for lunch and it soon became apparent that we had similar perspectives on music past and present. ‘Soundman Riddim’ was our first collaboration, a contemporary jungle flavoured dnb roller but with nods to our roots.  It’s great to have had the opportunity to work with a true jungle legend even though lock down meant it was all over Zoom and Whatsapp! Demagrafiks is a name for this project and won’t necessarily be used again so this is a super rare and sure to be collector’s item for any M-Beat fan! We have also been working on some other projects together which we will be announcing in the future. For the flipside of our collab we wanted to showcase another rising star and somebody who was influenced by the 90s rave sound. Step up Yazzus on remix duties!  Part of the 6 Figure Gang who have been making huge waves in the scene, this was a very exciting remix and another opportunity to represent the 160 sound championed by Sherelle, another 6 Figure Gang member and others who are mashing up various styles of rave, jungle, footwork, juke and techno. Yazzus has taken the jungle roller original and twisted it into a hardcore rave monster with deep, bouncing kicks, jungle subs and killer rave stabs. This is one for the old hardcore heads and the new alike whether you were raving in ‘93 or drawing inspiration from it in the 2020’s” Sam concludes.

Demagrafiks 'Soundman Riddim' - SSR006

1. Lemna - Rahu 
2. Sum - Scrape Out the Pain 
3. Paluca - Blac Cat (Code 906 Remix) 
4. Abstract Illusion - Dark Droid (Dub-One Remix)
5. Champa B - Jah Jah Dub 
6. Dub-One & Blatant - Combination Style
7. Faul - Watchin the Darkness
8. dreadmaul & No Name - Obscure Prophecies (Forthcoming Multitone Recordings)
9. Terror Cell & Layer 3- Hybrid
10. Sum - Evil Thoughts
11. Technical Itch - Strain Sanquine
12. Terror Cell & Layer 3 - Time Tunnel
13. Scale - Take Off (Forthcoming Multitone Recordings)
14. Jonny 5 - The Night is Dark
15. Thumbzo - Stagnant
16. ASC - Fatal Error
17. Antares - You and I 
18. Duburban - War Cry
19. Moz - Mentazm Tune
20. No Name - Nekravol
21. Jungle Kid - No Face

Live In London Vol. IV 04.11.20

Vinyl and Digital Jungle Label - part of the Vinyl Fanatiks family