Wow what a difference a year or 2 makes! In 1999 dancefloor drum & bass transitioned from bouncy feel good tunes to moody, teeth gritting stinkers. Jump up took a back seat to the new sound championed by Bad Company, Ed Rush & Optical and more...but there were still some names pushing the wobbly sound. Twisted Individual carried on his trademark sound along with new boys Hazard, Zen and more, here in the midlands JB & Spice were releasing quality music on their Back 2 Basics label.

I had my first proper club gig in 2000 playing a lot of these records, these records are not in great condition so there's a couple of skips and rough sounding mixes, apologies but these records have been battered! 

01. 2DB, Swamp Monster & Jungle Whore - Jumbo Fish Cake
02. Dope Skillz - In The Flow
03. JB & Spice - Ghost Train
04. Twisted Individual & APB - Gatorbite
05. Swanee & Undacut - Sweetest Hangover (DJ Hazard Remix)
06. DJ Hazard - Darkside
07. DJ Die - Timing Mechanism
08. Zen - Illusion
09. Twisted Individual - Fire Ant
10. Roni Size - Hopscotch
11. Dope Skillz - Moonwalking
12. Pleasure - Ripcord
13. DJ Hazard - Year 2000
14. Zen - Turnstyle
15. JB - Dred Bass VIP
16. Twisted Individual - ZX Spectrum
17. Brockie & Ed Solo - Echo Box
18. Zinc - Pitcher
19. Kamanchi - Hey DJ
20. Krust - Freak Show
21. Roni Size - Playtime
22. Drunken Masters - Deep In The Underground (DJ Hazard Remix)
23. Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Original Badboy
24. Benny Blanco - Remember Me (From The Bronx) (Twisted Individual Remix)
25. DJ Hazard - Active
26. Roni Size ft Rahzel - Out Of Breath
27. DJ Zinc - Reach Out (2002 Remix)
28. Twisted Individual - Sore Throat
29. Rhythm For Reasons – Bringing Back
30. Twisted Individual - Robotics (Remix)
31. DJ Zinc - Ska
32. JB - This Style
33. Scorpio - AAA
34. Brockie, DJ Kane & Ed Solo - Stampede
35. Twisted Individual - Nail Bomb
36. Dillinja - Grimey
37. Swanee & Undacut - The Way I Do (Down Town Mix)
28. Distorted Minds - Delirious

Thumpa - The Jump Up Chronicles Vol 3 (2000 - 2002)

Diving straight into one of my favourite eras, the 2007/8 period! By this time jump up was everywhere, Taxman and Original Sin were firing out anthems monthly, Hazard released the HUGE Machete Bass EP, TC's 'Evolution' became the album of the year and Modified Motion, Connecta and Heist were dropping high pitched bassline wobblers all over the gaff. Love it or hate it...this is jump up baby!

Thumpa - The Jump Up Chronicles Vol 6 (2007 - 2008)

Volume 7 of my in depth look at the history of jump up music! In 2009 it was all about Original Sin, Taxman, Serum, Pleasure and newcomer Sensai. DJ Fresh and Sub Focus were dominating the charts with melodic feel good D&B and the raves were packed!

01. Street Fighter - Bionic Commando (DJ Clipz Remix)
02. Artificial Intelligence - Pigeon Hole
03. Friction - 3rd Degree Gurns (Still Gurning VIP)
04. Recluse - Bangin The Walls
05. Slum Dogz - Bad (VIP Mix)
06. Harvest - Supernatural
07. DJ SS - We Came To Entertain (Sub Zero Remix)
08. DJ Fresh - Talkbox
09. Sub Zero - Spin Doc
10. Slum Dogz - 8 Ball Hustler
11. Sub Zero - Coming Up For Air
12. Crystal Clear &Cabbie - Cold Blooded
13. Dillinja - Shiners
14. Heist - Unicron
15. Vague - Play the Game
16. Taxman - Harry's Revenge
17. Clipz - Offline VIP
18. Prisoners of Technology - Trick of Technology (Sub Zero Remix 1)
19. Harvest - Militant
20. DJ Hazard - Wicked So
21. Tyke & Prestige - Awful
22. Majistrate - Bug Crusher
23. GP & WU - Bomb Threat
24. Sensai - Dungeon_Master
25. Connecta & DNK - Wolves
26. Nicol & Majistrate - Pirahna
27. Harvest - Waiting Room
28. Sensai - Virus
29. Jaydan - King Of Miami
30. Taxman - Evasion (Remix VIP)
31. Heist - Dregs At The Bottom
32. A Sides - One DJ
33. Tayza - Firefist
34. Drumsound & Simon Bassline Smith - R U Ready
35. Serum - Rat Trap
36. DJ Hazard - Psychedelic
37. Sigma - Front To Back
38. Taxman - Unreal
39. Interface - Get Lo
40. Recluse - Rat Hunt
41. DJ Pleasure & Origin - D Day
42. Serum - Concrete Donkey
43. Original Sin - 8 Figure Bass
44. Jaydan & Sub Zero  - Brain Freeze
45. Majistrate - Plank Bass
46. Supreme Being - Just Teasin
47.Serum - Souped Up
48. DJ Hazard - Platinum Shadows
49. The Prototypes - Cascade
50. Crystal Clear - Itzalot (Dub Mix)
51. Drumsound & Simon Bassline Smith - Can You Feel It
52. Plasta - Nylon Shoutz
53. Sub Focus - Rock It

Thumpa - The Jump Up Chronicles Vol 7 (2009 - 2010)

Entering very aggy territory with volume 8! 2011 - 2012 was a time of massive change in jump up as the tunes got harder and higher pitched. Lots of massive tracks here from big names like Pleasure, Jaydan, Majistrate, Heist, Serum and more. Coming up the ranks were names like DJ Guv, Konichi, Dominator and others...the new wave of jump up had arrived and it was fucking angry...

Thumpa - The Jump Up Chronicles Vol 8 (2011 - 2012)

The 10th and FINAL mix in the series celebrating jump up music from 1994 up to modern day! For my 10th mix I looked at the insane 2015/2016 era with legends like Guv, Majistrate, Heist and Pleasure putting out some of their best work and new(ish) rookies Hedex, Upgrade, Dominator, Voltage and more expanding the jump up landscape with crazy sound design and European influences. 

I hope you enjoyed this 10 part trip down memory lane, please feel free to share with friends and any promoters you know!

Thumpa - The Jump Up Chronicles Vol 10 (2015 - 2016)

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2025 sets (taking limited dates)

01/02/25 Drum & Bass Classics, London
28/02/25 Drum Fusion, Coventry
01/03/25 Birmingham Children's Hospital Fundraiser. Birmingham
15/03/25 Pump, Burton On Trent
22/03/25 Tomorrow’s World, Doncaster
29/03/25 DNB Shellaz, Birmingham
12/04/25 Bassman & Friends, Birmingham 
20/04/25 Crooked House, Shrewsbury
25/04/25 Sumo Beatz, Colchester 
03/05/25 Drum & Bass Classics, London 
07/06/25 Unity (vinyl set), Coventry 
28/06/25 Industrial Drumz, Birmingham 
05/07/25 Formation Records Rooftop party, Leicester 
12/07/25 Bassman Birthday Bash, Birmingham  
12/07/25 Fuse Festival, Lichfield
04/10/25 TBC
05/10/25 Riverdance, London 
22/11/25 TBC

2024 sets:

26/01 Be Happy, Leicester 
27/01 Drum & Bass Classics, London 
27/01 Future Drum & Bass, Milton Keynes
27/01 Raveology Children’s Hospital Fundraiser, Birmingham 
10/02 Paragon, Leicester 
10/02 Darkside, Glasgow
17/02 Happedaze, Sunderland 
24/02 Bassface, Birmingham
02/03 OnlyBass, Birmingham
16/03 Reprobeats, Manchester
29/03 Random Concept, Birmingham
30/03 Bassface, Birmingham 
27/04 Drum & Bass Classics, London 
05/05 Onset Of Bass, Bristol
25/05 Random Concept, Northampton
28/06 Duck D&B, Birmingham
30/06 Basstrap live stream, Birmingham 
13/07 Fuse Festival, Lichfield 
27/07 Basstrap, Oswestry
03/08 Rave Hart, Cannock
23/08 NoughtyCulture, Leicester
24/08 Drum & Bass Classics, London
24/08 Drop The Knife Charity Event, Birmingham
25/08 Crooked House Festival, Lichfield 
31/08 Bassman & Friends, Birmingham
27/09 Dark In The Jungle, Birmingham
28/09 Drum & Bass Classics. Birmingham
18/10 Stimulation, Ripley
20/12 Complex, Burton On Trent


My name is Thumpa and I've been DJ'ing since 1996. I've played at Westfest (the biggest indoor rave in the UK), Pandemonium (Holland), Slammin Vinyl, Breakin Science's 'Drum & Bass Classics', Random Concept, DNB Collective, HTID & HTID In The Sun, Shadow Demon, Hardcore Heaven, Uproar, Hardcore Heaven Weekender, Raver Baby, Ravers Reunited, FINRG (Finland), Codex (Japan), Fantazia, Madness Industry (Holland), Mokum (Holland), Cenobite (Holland), Dimensions Of Darkness (Holland), Hardcore Underground, Freeformation, Vibealite, Uprising, Distruxshon and hundreds more including gigs in Japan, USA, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Hungary, Finland, Germany and for every major rave promoter in every corner of the UK. I now play D&B, classic D&B / jungle and old skool with the occasional hardcore set.

Any mixes you can't find might be at https://hearthis.at/rebuildmusic/ or http://www.mixcloud.com/OllyThumpa

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