Thumpa - Just Close Your Eyes and Listen (90s Atmospheric Jungle D&B Mixes)

My final mix of the year, a look back at some of my favourite atmospheric D&B tunes 95-97. The kind of mix you can put under your pillow and fall asleep to. 90 mins from floaty to amens to darkness. 
Music from Big Bud, Shogun, Trace & Nico (Skyscraper), John B, Voyager and more...

01. Big Bud - Temptation
02. Shogun - Pegasus
03. LTJ Bukem - Rainfall
04. Voyager - Hypersleep (97 Revamp)
05. Q Project - Solar System
06. Helen T - Diverse City
07. Q Project & Spinback - 2010
08. Future Bound - Sorrow
09. E-Z Rollers - Rolled Into 1 (Photek remix)
10. Jonny L - Underwater Communication
11. Ken Ishii - Stretch (Shogun Remix)
12. Fokus - Like Dat
13. Future Engineers - The Silence
14. Forme - New Element
15. Shogun - Nautilus
16. Universal - Live Session
17. Intensity - Generations
18. Oblivion - Sands of Time
19. Skyscraper - Mach II
20. Doc Scott - Machines 1996
21. John B - ECG Mix 1

Thumpa - Just Close Your Eyes and Listen (90s Atmospheric Jungle D&B)

Another mix you can drift away to...
Music from Dillinja, Subject 13, Tango & Ratty, Essence Of Aura, Rogue Unit & many more.

01. Tango & Ratty - Time & Space
02. Parallax - Watercolours
03. Mouly & Lucida - Chilled
04. Wayward Mind - Homeland (Xpressive Journey Mix)
05. Motive One - Wise Moments
06. Dr.S. Gachet - Remember the Roller (Remix)
07. Essence Of Aura - Northern Lights
08. Rogue Unit - Horn Section
09. Fellowship - Celebrate Life
10. Dead Calm - Searchin'
11. Allude 8 - The Gallery
12. Subject 13 - Can U Feel The Vibez
13. Higher Sense - Out There (Origin Unknown Remix)
14. Dillinja - Luscious Nights
15. Tango - Fever
16. John B - Green (IC1 Remix)

Thumpa - Just Close Your Eyes and Listen Vol 2 (90s Atmospheric Jungle D&B)

A mammoth 1 hour 45 minutes for volume 3 going from floaty music to obscure jungle to darkness. All 90s jungle / D&B from artists like Andy C, Source Direct, Future Engineers, Deependance, C4, Decoder, Technical Itch & more...

01. Mouly & Lucida - Inertia
02. Mystic Moods - A Sense Of Summer
03. Futurebound - Blue Mist
04. Tekniq - True
05. Universal Traveller - Midnite
06. Technical Itch - Can't You See (Dub Mix)
07. Electric Blue - Deepness
08. B.L.I.M - Headspace
09. Source Direct - A Made Up Sound
10. Source Direct - Modem
11. Shogun - Submerged
12. Deependance - Broke My Heart (Drop Down)
13. C4 - Phuturistic Joint
14. Deependance - Dark Tha' Jam
15.Recoil - The Bridge
16. Andy C - Roll On
17. Cold Mission - Comin' On Strong
18. Future Engineers - The Silence
19. International Rude Boyz - Paragone (Tango VIP Mix)
20. Ed Rush & Nico , DJ Trace - Mad Different Methods
21. Decoder - The Difference

Thumpa - Just Close Your Eyes and Listen Vol 3 (90s Atmospheric Jungle D&B)

I'm back with another 80 mins of lush atmospheric jungle going from floaty to complex to dark! Music from Subject 13, Nookie, Trace, Elementz Of Noize, Photek, Codename John (Grooverider) & many more. Hit repost if you like it!

01. PFM - Dreams
02. Futurebound - The Ephemeris
03. Subject To Reason - Can't Go Wrong
04. The Invisible Man - Stormfields
05. Elementz Of Noize - Astral
06. Subject 13 - Oceans
07. Personelle – Rebound (Nookie Remix)
08. Jazz Juice - Detroit
09. PFM - Cruising Detroit
10. Codename John - Deep Inside
11. Sounds Of Life - Release The Bells (Wax Doctor Remix)
12. Dillinja - Hoes & Tricks
13. Lemon D - Solar System
14. Shimon - First Charge
15. Rollers Instinct - The Mutant
16. Photek - One Nation

These mixes are designed to listen to, dance to, work to, sleep to or just have on as background music...you choose.

Thumpa - Just Close Your Eyes And Listen Vol 4 (90s Atmospheric Jungle D&B)

Finishing off my Just Close Your Eyes & Listen series with a final 75 minutes of beautiful, complex atmospheric jungle from the mid 90s. Some absolute personal faves in this mix ranging from floaty atmosphere to complex drums to downright darkness and early techstep.
Music from LTJ Bukem, Essence Of Aura, Photek, Trace, Hydro (Ed Rush), Lee Smith aka Ascend and many more.

I hope you enjoyed this 7 hour journey into some of the most gorgeous music ever made, feel free to tell a promoter about me!

Thumpa - Just Close Your Eyes And Listen Vol 5 (90s Atmospheric Jungle D&B)

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2026 dates

04/04 Madness Industry, Beesd (NL)
25/04 Tomorrow's World, Doncaster
09/05 Mr Traumatik Tour, Derby
23/05 TBC
24/05 Dizstruxshon, Doncaster
06/06 Splitting Frequencies, Worcester
11/07 Fuse Festival, Lichfield
25/07 Back To The 90s Festival, Birmingham
25/07 TBC
05/09 TBC
12/09 Heavy Society, Dudley
12/09 TBC
26/09 TBC



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
09/08/25 Bassface, Birmingham 
05/10/25 Riverdance, London 
02/11/25 Bellyman Show, London 
15/11/25 Hardcore Technology, Newport
22/11/25 Tomorrow’s World, Doncaster 
06/12/25 Standard Procedure, Coventry 
12/12/25 Splitting Frequencies, Bristol
26/12/25 Drum Fusion, Coventry 
27/12/25 Splitting Frequencies, Malvern
31/12/25 Midnight Frequencies, Birmingham  

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