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But I'ma get you high today!
Another gap in the amazing One In The Jungle Archive's collection filled with yet another EXCLUSIVE One In The Jungle hotmix from my vaults - this time from the 1997 run with a set from DJ SS! Download previous One In The Jungle shows here...
A true jungle legend, DJ Scratchen Stein put out countless classics (about 100 - including this absolute ANTHEM) under innumerate aliases (Sound Of The Future, Hot Steppers, MA2...), mostly on his own heavyweight Formation Records label. This mix from 1997 is typical of his sound - experimental, dreamy whilst retaining the hard edge that keeps dancefloors moving... and he smashed all the biggest raves from Telepathy to Fantazia. Midlands crew - STAND UP!
DJ SS & MC Fearless - One In The Jungle - 18Jul1997
Source: TDK FE90-Type I
Duration: 58m12s
Format: MP3-192kbps
Size: 79.9MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YMJR9CIC
*** SPECIAL BONUS ***This is a rare treat for you guys because, as a general rule, I only used to tape the guest DJ hotmixes and not the half an hour of new music either side (and of course the Top 10 at Ten and the National Rave Guide!) because I just listened, bought what I liked and moved on. For whatever reason, maybe cos it was a 90min cassette, I do have this week's one and it is a great listen... it takes me right back to when there was new music coming out of the scene every week that blew my mind and I always rushed right out to cop it on a Saturday morning... well, afternoon... late afternoon!
One In The Jungle - 18Jul1997
Source: TDK FE90-Type I
Duration: 36m26s
Format: MP3-192kbps
Size: 50.1MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=INAB94Z1
Wu-Tang sword style!
X-amount of bassline rumble...One In The Jungle is responsible for a lot of things. It put the UK's ever mutating breakbeat scene into the public eye for the first time opening the door for the bass that followed from UKG, Grime, Dubstep... Plus the show's popularity started BBC Radio on their path to launch national 'legal pirate' - 1Xtra. Wow.But even more, it is the reason this very blog was created. Wanting to listen to some old mixes, I came across the brilliant One In The Jungle Archive - home of a huge collection of mixes from the show's history. However, the archive was (and still is) incomplete so I dug out the legendary first three tapes (shows from Goldie, DJ Rap and Roni Size) from my attic, digitised em and upload here. The rest is history.
Now a year later, I have gone back to digging and found another stack of 1ITJ tapes with at least a few of the archive's missing shows in there... Here is the first of these gap-fillers - a massive Brockie mix from the 1996 run of the show. A legend in the game and a long term favourite of hardsteppers everywhere, Brockie was one of the co-founders of the king of d&b radio - Kool FM - in 1991! This combined with a tireless touring schedule and numerous classic releases on his own Undiluted imprint make Brockie one of the scene's heavyweight champions. Download now.
Brockie & MC Dett - One In The Jungle - 23Aug1996
Source: Sony FXI 60-Type I
Duration: 58m35s
Format: MP3-192kbps
Size: 80.5MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H6Y5TNU9BROCK OUT!
1 year, 25 tapes, 30 mixes, 26 DJs, 12 MCs later... 29 posts and several thousand downloads in... even 3 of my own mixes (1 old and 2 new)... and we still standing.Thanks to everybody who has read the blog, downloaded a mix, mailed a link out, posted to a forum, left a comment, facebooked, twittered @jbotapes or just generally held it down over the past 365 days. I hope you are all enjoying what is essentially a personal project to digitally preserve my own tape collection for posterity.If anyone is thinking of buying J.Bo a birthday gift, then something like this would do... oh, and of course, a cake is essential.Here's to many more massive mp3 mixes to come... hold tight and watch the ride.
There ain't nothin' out here for you... oh yes there is - THIS!I always said that if I made it to 25 tapes that I would release one of my own mixes from back in the day. I didn't think we'd make it but the support has been phenomenal over the past (nearly a) year with 1000s of downloads and even messages from DJs themselves happy at finding their long-thought-lost mixes here.But we did make it, so here we are with J.Bo Tape #25... and I have selected a personal favourite from the vaults... J.Bo - SUMMER BASS II: universal music. Recorded when I was still a teenager (before I had status and before I had a pager) in the summer of 1997, this was my annual attempt at summarising the previous 12 months in drum & bass... and with Nightmare Side A focusing on the emerging techstep sound and Dream Side B on a more vocal/ambient/experimental tip, it does a pretty good job of that.With the techstep sound coming to dominate drum & bass for many years, it is easy to forget that when it first came through, it was truly mind blowing. Every week another record would come out that sounded like nothing that had ever come before it...with the ever reliable Metalheadz and Prototype labels leading the charge. I mean, who remembers Adam F's hoover-bass on 'Metropolis'? Or the first time Dillinja's 'Threshold' made your nostrils and eyeballs vibrate at Blue Note? Or the first time you heard the break-switching produced onto the record itself (it actually upset some DJs who thought "hey, that's my job")? Or just the total insanity of Arcon 2's 'The Beckoning' (still one of my all time favourite records)? All that without even mentioning the other side of things - the abundance of high quality, warm bass and uplifting vocals coming from, amongst others, the Good Looking camp at the same time. 1996-7 was truly an amazing year in d&b history.I think this tape had an initial distribution of only about 20 copies (haha... I wonder if anybody still has theirs?!?). So this is the first chance for a wider audience to hear the mix, my first attempt at crafting an actual Drum & Bass Mixtape, rather than just a Mix-On-A-Tape. Using the usual two turntables, mixer and tape deck, I also hooked up a sampler for this one - you can even see all the samples used in the full tracklisting! And before you ask, yes, I was spending too much time with hip-hop DJs, listening to Wu-Tang records and watching kung-fu flicks at the time.
You may not know J.Bo as a d&b DJ, but regular readers/listeners of this site will know my taste by now so give it a listen - it features a heavyweight selection of all time classic tracks from the likes of Ed Rush, Dillinja, Boymerang, Doc Scott, Blame, Jonny L, DJ Krust, Roni Size, Photek, Bukem... and it is free! Then let me know what you think in the comments...J.Bo - SUMMER BASS II: universal music - Jun1997Source: TDK SA90-Type IIDuration: 1h30m47s (45m18s + 45m29s)Format: MP3-192kbpsSize: 124.1MB (62.2MB + 62.5MB)http://www.megaupload.com/?d=09LFD94K (alternatively Rapidshare)And like that... he's gone!
What goes around, comes around...
As you can see from the Top 5 J.Bo Tapes on the left, the first of these legendary Thursday night Full Cycle radio shows has quickly become by far our biggest download to date. To reward the continuing support from the Bristol crews, here is another tape recorded from the never-forgotten Galaxy Radio six months later, in the classic jungle year, 1995.
Roni Size and Krust's supergroup Reprazent went on to became the most successful live act in the history of drum'n'bass. These radio shows pre-date that era when they were breaking the music locally whilst making names for themselves on the London underground. And don't worry - three more of these shows have been spotted in the J.Bo Tape archive and will be digitised, remastered and uploaded here in due course - follow J.Bo Tapes on Facebook, Twitter or RSS Feed to make sure you don't miss future releases...
You don't need to be sold on this one so just go ahead and download in your droves... if you need more, hit up the great Bristol Pirate Radio Recordings site now.
Roni Size & Krust - Full Cycle Show - Galaxy 101FM - 25May1994
Source: Samsung XM-1 C90-Type I
Duration: 56m52s
Format: MP3-192kbpsSize: 78.1MBhttp://www.megaupload.com/?d=B7AAG0HV (alternatively Rapidshare)
The hotter mix.
The Takeover... R.O.C. too strong for y'all!
After the huge response to last month's Rap & Bullsh*t 101 mix and the spectacular success of the launch party, J.Bo and Southern Hospitality had to collaborate again...
If the last mix 'moved and soothed romance' then this one is gonna move you to RIOT! At the dawn of the new millenium, Roc-A-Fella Records had the entire rap scene on lock taking over the clubs, the charts, the streets and our hearts. This success came through releasing a constant string of CLUB BANGERS from their marquee artists - think Jay-Z, Kanye West, Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, Freeway, Cam'ron, Amil driving clubs all around the world crazy with smash hits like "Flipside", "Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop", "Do My...", "Jigga What, Jigga Who", "What We Do", "Oh Boy" and "Is That Your Chick?" and so on. Who doesn't remember wiling out to at least one of these jams?We have collected together as many classics as we could fit onto one CD (30 tracks as it turns out - see comments) so everybody can relive those glory days once again...
J.Bo & Southern Hospitality Present: We Miss The ROC - 2010
Source: Serato Scratch Live
Duration: 1h12m10s
Format: MP3-VBR
Size: 137.6MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3JD0TSDW
Maximum respect to Upper Echelon for the glorious nostalgia inducing cover artwork. Go check the simultaneous release and keep up with all that is new and good in urban music over at the Southern Hospitality site.
People who attended our last party are already lining up to experience the good time vibes and unmatched music again... the rest of you should join us for a Carnival Weekend warm-up and to grab a free copy of this CD at the official launch party - we will be at The Social on Little Portland Street W1 for "Southern Hospitality - We Miss The ROC Special" on Friday 27th August, free entry all night, details here and here.
UPDATE: With the surprising popularity of the last one, here's a YouTube video playlist.
UPDATE UPDATE: Photo gallery from another HUGE CD Release Party here. Thanks again to everybody there for making the party atmosphere what it was... treasure the hard copy of the mix if you were one of the lucky ones!
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JUST BLAZE!!!
"Suckers we wet to the sound of the dope piano..."
Coming in at #23 like the DJing Michael Jordan (or is it David Beckham?), we have another classic J.Bo Tape from none other than DJ Yoda!
Famously voted by Q Magazine as one of "The Top 10 DJs You Must See Before You Die", DJ Yoda is globally renowned for his genre-bending club sets, award-winning radio mixes and technology-pushing audio visual shows. Catch up with his latest moves on his Website, MySpace or Twitter and don't forget to buy your tickets to his, just announced, biggest production yet - the Stop, Look & Listen Tour is about to rock large screened venues all over the UK, culminating in a London gig at the IMAX!
But "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." DJ Yoda was producing mixtapes on Four Track Cassette Recorders (looking something like this) and independently releasing them through record shops from London to Bristol to Leads to Royal Leamington Spa! This was the third of four of these independent mixtapes that led to connecting with Fat Lace and releasing a series of collaborations with DJ Dan Greenpeace before being picked up by Antidote Records to produce the now legendary How To Cut And Paste series of CD mixes as well as his debut artist album.
This tape was always a favourite (even using one of my records!) taking in some of the mood evoking, piano based hip hop productions of the time from the likes of the peerless DJ Premier... as well as DJ Yoda's own remixes and blends. Even at this early stage you can hear his signature style of mixing contemporary hip hop with movie dialogue, comedy samples and turntable sketches. An essential addition to any mixtape collection...DJ Yoda - Piano Breaks - 1998
Source: TDK D90-Type IDuration: 1h30m11s (45m33s + 44m37s)Format: MP3-192kbpsSize: 123.9MB (62.6MB + 61.3MB)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7GRXIKVNJam like a tech with correct techniques...
It's been a long time, I shouldna left you...
.. waiting for J.Bo's long time coming return to the mixtape game. Being a brand new mix, this is not technically a J.Bo Tape... but after toying with the idea of recording it to a blank SA90 (of which I still have an unopened stash) then ripping it back to MP3, I realised this is my blog and I can do what I want!
This perfect party mix is a full on collaboration with Southern Hospitality AKA the most essential new music blog on the internet. Don't believe me? Just ask the New York Times to know that the world has sat up and is taking notice. Maximum respect to the big homies Superix, Rob Pursey and Davey Boy Smith for their tireless work pushing new music through their blog, their relentless genre-jumping mixtape releases and at their many events in London, around the UK and internationally.
To quote myself from the official release:
The long overdue collaboration between J.Bo and Southern Hospitality has been a true labour of love, just over a year in the making... and even now, the only way to agree to a final tracklisting was to start planning volume 2 (and 3!) immediately. A representation of one of our favourite sub-genres of all, these are the jiggy jams that brought fun and females back to the clubs. Featuring such luminaries of the genre as Fabo, Jigga, Kells, Luda and Diddy in a musical celebration of all that is trite and trivial, frivolous and flagrant. If the Fresh Prince is still looking for "a groove that soothes and moves romance" this 'Summertime' then here are 22 of em. Long live "Rap & Bullshit".
http://www.southernhospitality.co.uk/blog/?p=10629
Finally, those of you in London (or willing to travel) get down to The Social on Little Portland Street W1 for the official launch party of this mix on Friday night, 23rd July. Southern Hospitality - Rap & Bullshit Special, free entry all night, details here and here.
But enough of that, here is the amazing mix itself...
J.Bo & Southern Hospitality Present: Rap & Bullshit 101 - 2010
Source: Serato Scratch Live
Duration: 1h18m00s
Format: MP3-VBR
Size: 140.6MB [single MP3 file plus CUE sheet]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V3AW5CIU
UPDATE: For the YouTube addicts, there is a Video Playlist of Rap & Bullshit 101 here.
UPDATE UPDATE: Photo gallery from the awesome CD Release Party is now up here. Thanks for everybody who came down and made it one of the best parties ever... hope you all enjoy your very exclusive free hard copy of the mix!
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You think you're big time?
You're gonna f***ing die big time...Croydon's finest, DJ Sy, is nothing short of a Hardcore Legend. Inspired by old school hip-hop DJs in the late 80s, he started spinning hip-hop and soul... explaining his unique style amongst rave DJs and nickname "The Scratchmaster".
Gaining a residency at Nottingham's Venus nightclub in 1990, he was taken by the emerging hardcore scene and had a popular pirate radio show on the city's Rave FM. Bookings around the Midlands followed - Nemesis in Leicester, Time in Birmingham, Amnesia and Eclipse in Coventry - before his unique style got him noticed by the big national rave promoters like Dreamscape, Helter Skelter, Obsession and Fantazia.
Creating one of the hardcore scene's most prolific labels, Quosh Records, DJ Sy & Unknown produced a number of Happy Hardcore anthems, as well as other styles under a number of pseudonyms. Never wanting to be boxed in, Sy continues to DJ in other genres, such as House and Drum & Bass... a perfect example of which we have here.
This mix showcases Sy scratching over a set of heavyweight Jungle tunes, mostly from 1994, mostly on Formation Records, Tearing Vinyl and RAM Records. Believe me, the b-line on the first tune makes this mix worth the price of admission alone... trust!
DJ Sy - The Scratchmaster's Obsession - Jungle Drum And Bass - 1995
Source: TDK D60-Type I
Duration: 50m37s
Format: MP3-192kbps
Size: 69.6MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DMXUHNRN
This is a journey into sound...
Dreamy sounds of the Underground...
Being lucky enough to catch the opening of Frankie Knuckles' new residency at The Crimson Lounge Chicago a few weeks ago, I was struck with the age range of partiers in the Windy City. Since House music emerged from disco at the dawn of the 80s, the city's residents have never stopped taking advantage of Chi-town's 5am last call to party hard, still going strong into their 40s. A lesson to you ravers that retired way before 30!Frankie Knuckles is credited as the Godfather of House for his early groundbreaking sets at the Warehouse and Power Plant clubs as well as his genre defining productions (you may recognise this one...). A decade later, he moved back to New York, formed Def Mix Productions with David Morales and was soon churning out beautiful remixes for the biggest names in pop - Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Toni Braxton... Lisa Stansfield (!).Universe were considered the UK's #1 rave promoters - priding themselves on value for money, huge innovative productions, and uncompromising DJ line ups - peaking with Tribal Gathering in 1993. Sadly, increased political pressure from the authorities and the police made it impossible to make money, even with 20,000 people attending events, and they were out of business before the end of the year. Here we go back in time to their final rave - Big Love - and Frankie's co-headline set from the Heaven stage...Frankie Knuckles - Universe Big Love - 13Aug1993
Source: Memorex CRX II S60-Type II
Duration: 50m00sFormat: MP3-192kbps
Size: 68.7MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X2F2R8IF
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