Rain

Song writer and Producer trying to find own sound.

Ive got 3 soundcloud accounts, JelEssex (this profile - current stuff), Jel Essex (for historical tunes / mixes and links to Essex DJ's / producers) or JelEssex_mixes (only one up there at the moment). I'm into the Detroit Chicago NY UK Euro housey techno thing from 25 years ago, but anything with a nice beat or warper bass, chilled out stuff and (of course!) 90's hardcore junglist / d'n'b / UK Garage etc. BUT there is so much good music out there - think roots and culture with psychadelic rock, religious chant, hip-hop (US and UK and european or Latino etc.) Oldskool funk and RnB breakbeat pressure anything really as long it sounds good - you can't really beat a nice 808 beat with a phat 303 over the top and all the warper-bass hardcore sounds of the UK and NY 1989 1990 style - then again there's Warp Records R&S Vinyl Solution, Nu Groove, Trax, SUAD, TamTam, Atmosphere, then going into LTJ Bukem, Satin Storm, Bay-B-Kane,  Ragga Twins, Kool FM Rush Defektion Format Unity,  DJ Hype Nicky Blackmarket, Red Ant, 3rd Party, Reinforced, Moving Shadow, Ram, Production House, Ganja, roni Size + Kru, Ray Keith, D'Bounce, Metalheadz, the list just goes on and on and on... sure by now you get the idea ;) what about all the original b-boy hiphop Skooly D, Xena, Man Parrish, Grandmaster Flash, Doug E Fresh, WCW, Hashim, Newcleus, ok then what about Donald Byrd, Roy Ayers, Bob James, Lyn Collins,  etc. etc. etc. my era though - 1987- present looking at Fantasy FM Friends FM Centerforce, Climax FM, Obsession, ICR, SLR, Stomp, Dance, Rave, Chilling, Kiss (b4 legal on 94FM) Innocence, Pulse, Kool, Cyndicut, Don FM, Shocking fM, Pleasure FM, Stomping FM, Shakedown all that kind of stuff that's where I was blessed with all these original b-boy flavours, by 1988 London FM pirate radio was pumping out some rare tunes - I just wish I'd taped them more so I could have put them up here. Anyway Props to - Mr Nex (Mark Archer) Piraterevival, Genesis88radio, OSA, Lady Duracell Billy Vega & all the Passion FM crew, DJ Radford, Hermit, Horace & co. of Centerforce, Ben Sims (Essex Rascals) all the Origin FM family all the Kool Squad, there's too many to mention sorry if I left you out - if you know any of these people then you know what's going on.,.  Also the Essex lot doing their thing - DJ Carter & Tony D Charm  Trust FM, Funky FM, DJ Scotty, Miley, Dark Noize Original (D.N.O) Danny Breaks, MC AK, DJ Oracle, DJ Quaid, Pukka FM, MC Karnaje, Klass FM, Charge FM, Desire 92, and back in the day Elite 99 Planet FM, ICR, Sweet FM, Sub-Zero, Vison FM, Hypnotik 92.7, Mind 93.9 FM and so on...sorry if I forgot you - also props to all the writers still tracksiding - PEACE

Rain

The Projects 2014