This blog is dedicated to the sounds of Future Jungle ,J-Tek,140 Jungle,Jungle Breaks,Hardcore Breaks,Dubstep,Breakstep,Nu Jungle,Jungle Tekno and Nu-Rave
With his Rollin Out Remix former Dub Mechz producer K Man kicks off proceedings and serves up a slice of deeper than deep sub bass devastation that will be putting many a sound system to the maximum test over the summer.
Bojcot Selectah steps up next with his remix of Killa Soundboy and chops up the breaks with his usual precision and attention to detail , crafting a dark slice of 140 Jungle that shows off the pedigree you would expect from someone previously appearing on super label Black Butter.
Last up but far, far from least BBC Radio 1 golden boys RadioKillaZ hit hard with their remix of Mind Blown and present a full on Future Jungle Bass Ridden Rave Attack guaranteed to tear the place up wherever you are .
This massive remix package really sums up what Top Drawer Digital are about , quality 140-150 BPM Underground Bass music.
Release dates : Beatport : 13th July 2015 Everywhere : 27th July 2015
8.5/10 DJ Mag (July 2015) 8/10 Ray Keith “love the vibe of the old skool hardcore great authentic sounds love it” 9/10 Billy Bunter 8/10 Donavon Bad Boy Smith 8/10 Dreadzone "tough release, like all cuts. heavy dubwise biznis. killa soundboy is rolling" 9/10 Generic Bass "future jungle lives!" 8/10 2 Bad Mice "Great EP - Love the variety of mixes and the Bojcot mix is a personal fave!" 8/10 Vinyl Junkie
We are pleased to present No 4 of our monthly mixes by the incredibly awesome Beat Breaker, along with the quality mixing and blending, we get a whole load of those great mash ups that he does so well in the mix, a real party set this one loaded with energy and bass heavy riddims!!!!
01.. Earmole: Moon Tribe
02.. The Rumblist vs. Curious? vs. Earmole: Narcissist Beats [Beat-Breaker RFX]
03.. Top Buzz: Living In Darkness [Gold Dubs RMX]
04.. Manion vs. Top Buzz vs. Gold Dubs: Can't Get Enough [ Beat-Breaker RFX]
05.. Serial Killaz: Dutty Sound
06.. Boogie Times Tribe: The Dark Stranger [Simon Harris RFX]
07.. Spacelink: Offset Jazz
08.. Aems: The New Dawn
09.. Schoco: Synaptic Overload
10.. Eddie Voyager: I Need You Tonight [Rykennon RMX]
11.. Schoco vs. Eddie Voyager: Why Waste Your Time [Beat-Breaker RFX]
12.. Lucas: Undecided Mission
13.. Strange Rollers: The Saints Have Returned
14.. Schoco: Only A Dream
15.. Electrux: Orbit
16.. Lucas vs. Shockone: Razor's Edge [Beat-Breaker RFX]
Top Drawer Digital DJ Digitally Mashed recently did an Hour Long Promo mix of their Album 50 From The Top for Brewster B which was aired on his Kiss FM Australia Radio Show last Saturday 15th Jan 2015.
Electrux – Tau Ceti D-Con – Tanjobi Bojcot Selectah – Fast Motion 11 Beagle –Step Into The Light (Dub Mix) Sub Fusion – Psychotic Bleeps Visible Sound – Lost In Bass DJ L.A.B – Touch (Schoco’s 140 Painting) Lucas – Incongruous Strange Rollers – Nerve Endingz Eddie Voyager - The Future Is Ours Electrux – Bounce Konjah – Make A Move Lucas –The Antichrist (Second Coming Mix) Dazz F – My Dreams My Nightmares
Following on from the epic compilation 'We;re Not Dead: The 3rd Chapter' the latest release on Warehouse Wax is a mammoth free EP consisting of 10 tracks by Vinyl Junkie & Sanxion, from breaks to 140 Jungle to DnB, a wide spectrum of styles is covered, vocal anthems like 'Poison Me, 'Talk To Much' & 'Wages Of Sin', remixes from Gold Dubs & Strange Rollers, this really is a very BIG EP with something for everyone, oh and did we mention its free!?!
4 releases you need to add to your collection, first up, Ellis Dee & DJ Twista's new EP on Passenger Records features 2 140 Jungle/breaks bangers 'Next To Me' & 'Be The One' with Marie Louise on vocals, both classy tracks with quality production and perfect for sending the dance floor into mass hysteria!!!
Manion's new EP 'The Truth' on Kut Off Records is a 2 way split between 4 tracks of 140 Jungle & DnB taking in breaks & trap influences on the journey and plenty of Manion's signature dutty bass!!!
On Bad Habit Muzik, The Imperial Brothers touch down for their 3rd release on the label 'Choon' remixed by 100Me who skillfully blurs the lines between house/garage, breaks & 140 for a peak time party anthem!!!!
On the deeper side of things, Ryo returns to Boomsha Recordings for 'Arcadia', a shimmering slice of ambient influenced future jungle that shimmers like a sun soaked soaked desert with mesmerising pads and tons of atmosphere, Resonant Status turns in a simply amazing prog breaks reworking too....
We’re Not Dead: The 3rd
Chapter is looking to be the biggest release to date from Warehouse Wax, when
you embarked on this project, did you have any idea it would end up clocking in
at a staggering 50 tracks?
No, we we’re
thinking it would be more along the lines of 36 tracks, 18 on each mix. But we
got sent a lot more tunes than we thought we would. We decided to cap it at 50.
We could have had more but we had to set a limit really… 50 seemed like a nice
round number… Sorry for all the people that sent tracks that didn’t make it
onto the album… The competition was tough!!!
Can you tell us a bit about
the tracks you compiled for the album and what made them stand out to you?
Well, pretty much
all the tunes were sent straight to me and I would keep the ones I thought were
worthy, so they kind of got filtered before they even made it to Sanxion… We
argued a bit over some of the tracks and whose mix they were best suited to…
and his dad actually had to break up a fight on one occasion when I had him in
a headlock on the floor. So in the end we just tossed a coin on some of them.
The tunes all stood out, for different reasons, or they wouldn't be on there.
The most important thing, which determined whether a tune would make it to the
final shortlist folder, was the quality of production. There was a few tunes
that were really good but the production just was not there. There was also a
few artists we had to work with to get the production better as well.
What do you look for in a
track and what in your opinion, lifts a track from being average to being a
track that gets played time and time again?
I look for
originality, whether I think it will work on the dancefloor and a high standard
of production. What lifts a track from being average to being a track that gets
played time and time again? Well that’s the million dollar question isn't it.
When I figure that out I’ll be a very rich man!! I think if you have a really
well produced vocal track that is catchy and sounds fresh and current, then you
have as much chance as the next man of having a BIG tune on your hands. The key
is to PR the release properly. Get a PR company involved that can help you get
it into the right hands.
What advice would you give
to aspiring producers out there?
Try to be
original without alienating yourself. Perfect your craft and don’t send out
tracks unless you are 100% sure about them because it will come back to haunt
you later…
Sanxion
You have had a number of
releases out on Warehouse wax but how did you get involved in compiling this
latest album for the label?
It all started
with a studio session between myself, Billy 'Daniel' Bunter, and Warehouse Wax
boss Vinyl Junkie. Daniel had known and worked with VJ before and it seemed a
perfect fit for the 3 of us to get together to do a track.
After that session Vinyl Junkie kidnapped me, and has forced me to work for the
label ever since. If I blink 3 times in a row at you when he's not looking, we
can make a move and free me right?
The more boring
answer, is, me and John got on well when we met up that first time, and decided
to carry on doing tracks together, and he let me do a few remixes, and
eventually get my own EP on the label. It's just been a natural progression
from then to getting amongst it and compiling the album with him.
You have quite a diverse
selection of tracks that you personally picked for WND 3, what was it about
them that made you want to include them?
I can usually
tell within the first 30 seconds or so if a track is going to grab me or not.
I'm all about the biggest beats possible, the loudest bass, and the raviest
rave style bits. Sometimes, the more over the top, the better for me. Big and
brash and banging. If it fits those 3 criteria, I'm usually sold. The tracks on
my mix on the album hopefully cover that side of what's going on with bass and
breaks at the moment. Being a bit of a techie geek, I also quite like tracks
that get all technical along with it too.
And which producers in
general are doing big things in your opinion?
Strange Rollers
always delivers. His stuff sits on that fine line, between being banging, but
also being very musical, whilst somehow managing to evoke the spirit of
"Intelligent Jungle" (for want of a better phrase).
Toronto is Broken is just a beast when it comes to multi genre stuff. Pretty
much everything he touches is massive. King Yoof, and Gold... just because they
do that Future Jungle with Reggae sound so amazingly well. As do the
RadioKillaz…
Too many to mention in a short interview to be honest. I also love the stuff
that Flashback and Retropolis do (but I could be a little biased there, as
their stuff comes through my studio a lot of the time) Slightly away from the
140 scene (is that even a good way to describe it these days?), I love what
Dodge & Fuski, and Zomboy do. Just 110% banging!
As an ardent gamer, which of
the next gen consoles do you prefer and what games are you currently enjoying?
Don't get me
started...
This next gen cycle, I am holding off (at least for a while). XboxOne is the
obvious way to go for me, as my current gen gaming was mainly on the 360. But
nothing about it is really grabbing me. They are pushing towards it being a
media hub, but a lot of the media integration, is (at the moment) USA centric.
Same sort of thing with PS4 so far. Nothing really grabbing me enough to stump
up the 400 quid or so this time around. In recent months, I bought a new studio
PC, so whilst I was at it, I bought a decent video card, and have been having a
ton of fun playing games on there. Stuff looks as good/better than pretty much
all the cross platform next gen stuff still.
I have played
some great games this year. Saints Row 3, and then straight into 4 was about
the most fun I have had with a videogame ever! Also, Bioshock Infinite, was
quite possibly the best piece of story telling done in the medium so far (some
of the combat gameplay wasn't great, but the narrative, and especially the
ending made up for its shortcomings) This year has been the year of the Indie
Game though. I urge you all to check out ‘Thomas was alone’ (never will a game
make you "care" about a bunch or rectangles quite so much)
Gone Home (Is it
even a game? Storytelling without a story so much)
The Stanley
Parable (A subversive narrative on the mindset of game progression...and
probably the only real "funny" videogame ever made)
Hotline Miami
(Uber violence, that somehow manages to evoke an oddly specific mood)
Rogue Legacy (The
best retro-action-plaform-roguelike-hack'n'nslash-rpg?)
I'm also in the
middle of building myself a mame cabinet using a Raspberry PI as the guts....
top fun.
'We're Not Dead: The 3rd Chapter' is out now on all good download stores
Strange because of not agreeing with what is usual or
expected.
With Incongruous, Lucas has fused sounds and styles whilst
working within a Future Jungle style framework and produced something
refreshingly different.
Torronto Is Broken
(Subslayers) : "Love the intro vibes with those acoustic guitars and
eerie vocals. Great roller, love this fresh feel to this track. Some great
orchestration too on the strings later on. One of the best 140 jungle/breaks
tunes I've heard this year!" 9/10
Tariq (Future Jungle
Blog / Free Breaks Blog /Hush Mag): "This is awesome!!! Lucas keeping
it fresh and original as per, love the 90's Indie style intro, reminds me of
The Stone Roses, fits perfectly with thebeats, then the scratching kicks in and
it gets even better, what an amazing track!!!!, incredible
atmosphere"10/10
100Me : "Oh..
Wow! Nice one Lucas!!! I wasn't expecting that! You sly old dog! :p Definitely
getting some monkey lovin' on this one." 8/10
Sappo : “Nice
Work” 8/10
Rat Pack : "I
like this. Something different. I'll play it where ever I think it will drop.
Good work." 7/10
DJ MAG : 7.5/10
Strange Rollers : "loved
this as soon as i heard it - different wins 4 me!!!" 8/10
Radiokillaz "original
vibes, great stuff as always" 8/10
Jay Cunning
(Subslayers) “Nice work mate” 7/10
Midland Breaks : "I
love how Lucas never shy's away from trying something different from a lot of
the run of the mill formula tracks & always brings a touch of class to to
the table while still be able to make tracks that are going to keep the dance
floor moving, it's a hard task to master but Lucas always seems to be able to
do this effortlessly." 8/10
More support from , VJAir
, Arkon,Bay B Kane,Ben Venom,Brewster B,2 Bad Mice,Champion Breaks ,Big
Will,Digitally Mashed, Dazz F , Daz Breaks,Gaffer,Elextrux,Generic Bass,Jon
James ,John Grief,Kranky ,Odeed & Wish ,Nasty Squad , Pete HCL,Pressa
,Rasco,Rapid,Rob Focus ,Ruined Jon,Strange Notes,ssTaggat, Yankee and more
Introducing the 3rd in the series of excellent EPs from Warehouse Wax showcasing some of the finest artists in the 140 scene. There are 4 tracks here, each reflects the diversity within this sound perfectly, 100me 'In Paradise' flips the formula for the breaks sound with a unique sounding groove that you will keep coming back to, trust me, its incredibly catchy and no doubt has been rocking the dancefloors!!! Radiokillaz 'Burn Babylon' is ragga tinged 140 at its very best with a phat bassline that reminds us of old skool Andy C/RAM Records/True Playaz circa late 90s. Strange Rollers 'Doin The Herbie' fuses funky house sounds with futuristic jungle vibes and to round things up, Sanxion 'Rusty Screwdriver Skanks' is a trademark bass devastating 140 bad boy in that Sanxion style we all know and love.
Bad Habit Muzik return from a busy summer of representing the Future Jungle sound at venues such as Pure Science and across the pond over in the states with a new EP by Strangenotes-‘Interpretations In Dub’ ,A 4 track EP of dub reggae infused future jungle.
‘Bastards Know’ samples David Rodigan and features a glorious organ lick throughout the tune while ‘Keep The Bar Bizzy’ gets funky with a classic break and a lovely bassline, ‘The Cut’ goes deep with a large vocal sample and some stripped down minimal bass n beats, then we have the rather cheeky and equally awesome ‘I Don’t know’ which takes a very well-known dancehall classic, vocals and baseline and quite literally re interprets it into a future jungle masterpiece. Bad Habit knock the ball out of the park once again with yet another huge release!!!!!
The newest offering from the legendary Menu Music imprint is something pretty special, carnival vibes meet jungle bass in a wicked soundclash, to be honest, you really can't pigeonhole this and thats a good thing so I'll avoid all my usual cliches and just say it straight, get on this bad boy!!
1. Private Enemy :: by Champion Breaks 2. Mind Control :: by Champion Breaks 3. Music For Drugs :: by Champion Breaks 4. Extasy Make You Lovely :: by Champion Breaks 5. French Machine :: by Champion Breaks 6. XTC Kokane :: by Champion Breaks 7. Cult Music :: by Champion Breaks 8. Living Underground :: by Champion Breaks 9. Ready To Go :: by Champion Breaks 10. Acid Again :: by Champion Breaks 11. Rasta Come Tough :: by Champion Breaks 12. Shining Rasta :: by Champion Breaks 13. Psychedelic Minds :: by Champion Breaks 14. London Bass Hackney Acid :: by Champion Breaks 15. Earful of Coke :: by Champion Breaks
***As a free promotion and to say thank you to all our readers, Future Jungle Blog is giving away a free exclusive track by Champion Breaks, called "London Bass Hackney Acid"***
A welcome return from The Freestylers with a taster for their upcoming album, its definitely 140 Jungle in our book and we are seriously feeling this fuky ass banger!!!!
Brand new E.P from the Warehouse Wax imprint out now on trackitdown.net. A huge 6 tracker from Vinyl junkie featuring 4 remixed tunes by 601, 100me, Kambelt & Dom Almond and 2 brand new tracks by the man himself, 'Threat To Society' has a very cool drop which we at the blog are feeling right now, 601's remix of 'Resistance' is a skanking bad boy of a 140 Jungle tune, Dom Almond does a great job on 'Electro Rays', love the amazing sounding pads. This is a solid E.P as you would expect from this seminal and forward thinking label. Listen to the clips below and treat yourself or someone you love to an early present in the month of December by buying a copy!!
To mark our 30th release one of Top Drawer Digital's favorite producers Electrux is back with his 3rd full EP on the imprint and we rekon it's the strongest yet. The Orbit EP showcases his unique style as he drifts through genres whilst retaining his recognisable sound.
Support Includes :
100me Rating : 8 / 10 "Excellent release!! Illusion is doing it for me! =)" Ben Venom Rating : 9 / 10 "Once again Electux smashes it!" Brewster B Kiss FM AU 6 / 10 "amen brother..!" Tony Rocky Horror C89.5FM 7 / 10 "Orbit + Slingshot are my fav's! DJ Virus - Kool/Reinforced 10 / 10 "big bless & respect 4 coming wid da goods again love the music..v" DOC GACHET 8 / 10 E Z 7 / 10 "Liking the Bounce track!!" Jay Cunning 7 / 10 "Illusion is the one for me!" John Grief 7 / 10 "Good stuff from Electrux as usual - top marks go to Illusion - proper head nodding steppin bouncy bassline action - tasty..." Jon James 8 / 10 "Top tuna from Electrux, 4 great tracks from the 2step/future beats of the lyrical roller bounce to the the dark edges of sling shot ...for me its the Amen work out of Orbit..." Kranky 8 / 10 "Nice release, Orbit is a banger!" Linda B 8 / 10 "It was so hard to choose between Bounce and Illusion as best mix for me, but i think i chose Bounce to have the edge for it's Old Skool feel. I love this era." MULDER 9 / 10 Odeed and Wish 9 / 10 "Bounce is huge!I have been waiting for this release for a minute.Illusion is another top notch banger as well.Overall a great release and I will support for sure." Rasco 7 / 10 "Very good for the dancefloor, i like it" RISKOTECEQUE 7 / 10 the dubstep cut was cool Strange Rollers 9 / 10 "Loved Bounce for ages now! stunning track big support from the Strange Rollers Illusion is another stormer! Heavy Bass Action Infact there all wicked!" Ceos 8 / 10 "Illusion is a smart one, yet bangs with the best of them!" Rob Focuz 7 / 10 "Really like Illusion.. great track! Will definitely play this one." Radiokillaz 8 / 10 "a nice amen banger" Tariq (Future Jungle Blog/Hush Mag)10 / 10 "Electrux is an artist who is totally consistent and has an amazing ability to produce continuously fresh and infectious tunes while maintaining his signature style. I love the bouncy UKG style of 'Bounce' but 'Orbit' wins it for me with that great Electrux take on the Future Jungle sound." VINYL JUNKIE 9 / 10 "Tossup between Illusion and Orbit.... Slingshot pretty cool too"
This huge U.S/U.K colab is now out on all good download stores. Strange Rollers take the elements of the original Electro groove and chop them into some tight and bouncy 140 breaks, making for a light and infectious track with huge crossover potential and a great tool for DJs to get the dancefloor going nuts!!!!Whatever your persuasion, there is definitely a space for this banger in your DJ box so don't miss out!!!
