A brief musical journey

My passion in life is music specifically Drum and Bass and Jungle hence the Junglist bit.

To me nothing sounds greater than the sound of a low frequency bass tone. I think I developed the love of this sound from the moment in Star Wars: A New Hope when Obi Wan Kenobi turns off the tractor beam aboard the Death Star. It was such a lovely deep sound.

So when I progressed through my musical life journey from pop to dance music and Jungle developed and met me around 1995 I found something that inspired me and made my hairs stick up.

The diversity, the bpm, the amen break are all staple ingredients of my love for the musical genre. I love how it has been around for 20 years still largely untouched by the mainstream but still thrives and grows and underpins much of what makes modern music good. It has points in the scene where the music stops progressing and you find yourself listening around for new sounds then all of a sudden a handful of artists spin it on it's head again and the scene just lifts higher than ever again.

I cheated on this music for a good many years, from around 1999 to around 2008 and I developed a huge passion for Hip Hop probably because of the samples often used in Jungle. I consumed so much Hip Hop music in this time I was buying so many albums form the early years through to every new release. Some of it is fantastic but the newer records started lacking anything that was good about old Hip Hop and I found myself drawn back to Jungle/Drum and Bass.

2008 probably wasn't the greatest year for Drum and Bass but as my soul seems naturally locked into the groove between the snare hits I started finding out about what I had missed since the turn of the century. I guess I didn't really miss much but not long after I came back to it the music starts picking up, becoming inventive again. Wowing me.

Right now the music is fantastic and there are a number of record labels carrying on the good work from the Jungle heyday of and labels like Moving Shadow, Suburban Base, Reinforced. I follow the output of the newer labels such as Ingredients, Dispatch, Critical as much as I look for artists whose work I admire.

A brief history of my love for Jungle. This record below inspires me so much.

Peace.