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.
You might have come across them already but in case you haven't, we have 54 free tunes on our soundcloud, more in fact if you count our 1k likes compilation and exclusive Time Travel EP and exclusive Kinetic Eon EP everything from our trademark 140-150BPM style through to DnB, Jungle, Dubstep and more, we're always looking for new tracks to host as free giveaways and showcasing new talent and under the radar artists, if you fancy getting involved, hit us up on facebook
After some great releases on Top Drawer Digital, Hardcore Lives and on the Warehouse Wax 'We're Not Dead: The 3rd Chapter' LP Ben venom has a fresh 4 track EP of 140 Jungle/Jungle Breaks that is truly venomous!!! The title track is a massive piano anthem with added filthy bass n beats, 'Rasterizer, One Foot Skank' & '4King Ganja all have a distinct Ragga theme and vibe, each with Ben's classy production amped up to +10 on the scale, DJs!!!! Get on this fiyaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!
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]
The awesome Beat Breaker has given us an exclusive mix to stream/download packed with ravey 140 goodness and a few of his fine mash ups too, his mixes have been hugely popular on blogs like Funk & Filth and you can hear the quality for yourself right here, listen, download, respost and share on social media, this set is BIG!!!!! Tracklist:
01.. D.Trac3d
vs. F.U.G.: Get Real Wizardry [Beat-Breaker RFX]
02.. Hoodz:
Bad Bwoy
03.. Ben
Venom: Listen
04.. Ben
Venom vs. The Rumblist ft. rosaRat]: Wake Up & Listen
[Beat-Breaker RFX]
05.. Sanxion:
A More Complicated Experiment
06.. Skanx:
C'mon
07.. Vinyl
Junkie: Brainshake
08..
BreaksMafia vs. Massacre: Raves In The Bridge
09.. Temazo:
Little Things [The Flashback Project]
10.. The
Autobots: Time Machine [The Autobots' Future Jungle RMX]
11.. The
Flashback Project: Got To Be Free
12..
Freestylers & Stereo:Type ft. Illaman & Serocee: Ignite
13.. Jay
Cunning & One Sinner: Bad Girls [High Rankin RMX]
The first in a series of free download round ups that we hope to keep up regularly, we're opening it up it up here and simply sharing what we like regardless of genre so you will hear a variety of tempos and styles, most importantly, its a great chance to check out some artists you may have never heard of until now and hear what you were missing out on....
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....
WAVEWHORE - "Take The Dancefloor" / "Work It Out" - (IBREAKSBA018) :: IN STORES NOW!! iBreaks Bass brings you the hefty nu-jungle breaks sound of New York City based Wavewhore, who drops a ton of bpms and bass on this two-track EP. Take The Dancefloor kicks off the proceedings with some dancehall vibes and ragga MC stabs before dropping a massive hooky bassline directly into your ears. Plenty of classic breakbeats rear their head throughout the rolling original beats. Work It Out goes all Amen on us taking you right back to the early hardcore days, especially when backed up with some rave-esque stabs and a warped bassline. This one's definitely built for the big systems, fueled by big breaks and high energy bass and synth sections.
California Bass Don, Otter drops a dope exclusive free download for www.futurejungle.blogspot.co.uk, shades of Liquid DnB on this 140 Jungle roller with sick layered drums and a heavy bass mid section, check out more of his stuff here:
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
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.
You can stream these two rather tasty Jungle Breaks remixes by Tony Rocky Horror, one being a trance anthem getting the 140 retouch and the other a dope remix of Calvin Harris, soon to be available as free downloads but in the meantime, give them a stream and show some love with some feedback via a comment.
TDDR035 - The Rumblist : Brokded / Limit - Top Drawer
Digital
After having tracks on our last 2 Future Jungle Expeditions
Albums we're glad to have The Rumblist step out on his own to represent Top
Drawer Digital.
Brokded is a massive piece of low frequency abuse , cleverly
crafted Bass Music destined to crossover between many different Genres and work
subwoofers to their limits.
Limit lulls you into a false sense of security with warm
pads and keys in the intro before descending into dark ripping Future Jungle
attack with The Rumblist's usual interesting break edits and detailed
progression. Get them fron Track It Down :
Jungle Originator Bay B Kane returns to the Top Drawer Digital fold for his second journey in the Future Destination series.This time he travels through Exit 2 and with his latest four track EP, Jungles Past pushes onwards to wherever Jungles Future may be enjoying the ride from here in the Present.
100Me-"Top shelf release from the Top Drawer of record labels... Sick!" 9/10 VJ Air - "great ep of laid back sounds. Everyday is my fav at the mo." 9/10 Ben Venom - "Bay B Kane doin his stuff, awesome!" 9/10 Tony Rocky Horror C89.5FM "Bay B Kane is always on it!!" 9/10Digitally Mashed 10/10 Virus – Big Beaty music love TDD 10/10 Doc Gachet –This takes me back 8/10 EZ – lovin all the tracks 8/10 Eddy U-Ome AWESOME!!! Bay B is back with some crisp breaks for all. Love the soulfulness of unspoken, will def be supporting this one." 9/10 Generic bass 9/10 quality future jungle by BBK. "Everyday" is a proper, proper choon! Midland breaks 8/10 Jay Cunning 7/10 nice selection of tracks - proper 95 vibes John Grief Bay B Kane has really got a flow on with this release. All good tracks that fit together well as an ep. But Everyday is where the fire is at!"7/10 Jon James Gotta love those drums man ... bay b kane on top form with this wicked chilled future jungle e.p loads.. nice to hear some unusual drum patterns..great vibes thumbs up from me 8/10 Lex "Proper cool...Bukenm vibes for 2012... diggin this" 9/10 Pressa These are baaaad!" 9/10 Strange Rollers Everyday has a quality drifting away feel, love it and also like Breathes mellow tones and vocal, quality BBK Biznizz 8/10 Ceos Big bashment with a hint of souls and emotion! Liking this!"8/10 Schema yeah really nice this, digging it 9/10 SUAD Yeah Feeling Everyday 7/10 Radiokillaz solid release, feeling Unspoken most, top roller 9/10 Vinyl Junkie Niceness....Will play on Radio 7/10
A couple of popular definitions of 'Epic' include:
1.Noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition.
2.Of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.
Dan Schoco has made a Jungle breaks tune that truly is Epic in every sense of the word, weighing in at just under 13min, this slowly builds and builds into an epic melody that almost glides along the bassline and breaks, this is the kind of tune you could open a set with to really get a crowd going, theres elements of so many genres here and yes, I know, I'm a major culprit for name tagging everything but I couldn't help thinking that this is a merging of prog breaks and jungle breaks which is a great thing. Dan is very kindly giving this away for free download as part of a launching of a new soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/groups/a-little-journey-the-remix-group/tracks this is definitely a tune for fans of inteligent and melodic future jungle and is finding favour with the likes of Bay B Kane so I would get on the DL pretty sharpish to avoid disapointment and be kind enough to leave a friendly comment too
Schoco - A Little Journey... (FREE D\L) by schoco
140 Jungle is a YouTube channel that has been set up to showcase a sound which you might otherwise refer to as Future Jungle, Jungle Breaks or J-Tek. Don't be fooled into thinking it MUST be 140 BPM though,Think of it like a speed limit... Of course your gonna break it... But go too fast and you'll get banned!
Tim Reaper mainly makes drum and bass tunes which you can check here http://soundcloud.com/tim-reaper, tucked away amongst them is this hidden gem, a re rub of Skream's popular 'Burning up' track in a 94 choppage style slowed down to the tempo that fits into a future jungle set nicely and makes for a great secret weapon to drop and watch the crowd erupt Skream - Burning Up (Tim Reaper's Straight Up Beasting Remix) by Tim Reaper
