Sparki Dee - The Old Skool Experience Album

One of the hardest working producers in the scene, Sparki Dee has had releases on Kode 5, Hardcore Lives and Climactic Recs, produces in a wide range of styles but has always had love for the old skool sound of the early 90s, you can download his 10 track free LP which takes us through the spectrum of back to 88/89 warehouse/acid to full on breakcore taking in atmospheric jungle and Ron Wells inspired Jungle Tekno along the way, you really would be mad not to grab a copy of this great LP!!!

Alternative Download Link: https://sparkidee.bandcamp.com/

Sound Shifter Ft Refold-Earth EP-Digital Acetate

2 amazing tunes from Sound Shifter & Refold here, invoking memories of the 93/94 Jungle sound brought up to date in 2013. 'An Ocean Journey' builds slowly and calmly with subtle pads and beats into a superb slice of classic intelligent Jungle with strings along a similar line to favourites like 'Atlantis' & 'Music' while remaining a unique and fresh take on the 93/94 style. 

Sound Shifter & Refold - An Ocean Journey (Out Now) by Sound Shifter

'Sunset Whispers' is sweet, vocal Balearic bliss wrapped in a breakbeat, pads that soothe the soul and ease the mind, Sound Shifter is on fire right now with this fine new EP on Digital Acetate, an EP out on Yardrock for the Jungle Crew and an amazing remix of Disrupta's 'Givin It All I Got' coming very soon on Kode 5. This EP gets a 10/10 from the blog and a deserving one, go and support it, buy, share the links to buy and give quality music a chance to shine.

https://www.trackitdown.net/track/sound-shifter-feat-refold/an-ocean-journey-original-mix/breaks/6080556.html

https://www.trackitdown.net/track/sound-shifter/sunset-whispers-just-tell-me-original-mix/breaks/6080558.html

Radioactive Watermelon-Alpha/Blunted Purpose-Good News Boppers

Radioactive Watermelon returns to Good News Boppers with 2 mind blowingly good 140 rollers. Taking us on a journey, first up with 'Alpha' opening with an epic intro, the track builds and builds with subtle layers of warm pads and gradually increasing drum patterns. A deep and melodic number that offers a fresh take on the 140 sound swapping the big booming basslines for intricate and musical sounds. 'Blunted Purpose' has a definite feel of Bukem's 'Demons Theme' with Jazzy pads and organs over a classic 140BPM old skool style break. 2 essential tunes to add to your collection and brighten up this Monday morning.

Radioactive Watermelon EP - Exclusive to Trackitdown 5th August by GOOD NEWS BOPPERS

https://www.trackitdown.net/track/radioactive-watermelon/alpha-original-mix/drum_and_bass/6073414.html

https://www.trackitdown.net/track/radioactive-watermelon/blunted-purpose-original-mix/drum_and_bass/6073416.html

Ancient Future EP - Bay B Kane-Boomsha

BBK returns to  Boomsha recs to show us once again why he is way ahead of the game in the future jungle scene, pushing out the envelope and redefining the sound in his own inimitable style, personal fave here is the amazing 'I'm Alive' with breathless vocals and lush soundscapes with a hint of old skool rave. It goes without saying, you must add this to your growing collection of Future Jungle classics http://www.trackitdown.net/recordlabel/132984/boomsha-recordings.html

Radio Active Watermelon-Abysal Plains Good News Boppers

Deep and intelligent Future Jungle vibes that take you on a journey, this is part of a 2 tracker which also features the equally good 'Duality Of Being'. Bukem would be proud of these, if you don't get these, you really are missing out, absolute must have tunes.

 

ANM018 Time Travel: The Speed Of Light EP (Out 19th Aug 2012)

Get ready for the nexte E,P from Anomaly, due out 19th August. A 4 track E.P by Time Travel taking the route of deep, inteligent groove led 140 Jungle with the notable inclusion of a 1130bpm track, 'Nothing But A Dream'. Deep rollers from one of the best producers around on the consistently quality Anomaly imprint. A must have. ANM018 Time Travel: The Speed Of Light EP (Out 19th Aug 2012) by Anomaly

The Invisible Man -The Bell Tune (INSa 241's LO remix)

Undisputed tune of the day on the FJ blog goes to Insa 241's quality 140 re work of circa 94' classic 'The Bell Tune' By The Invisible Man, originally released on Good Looking records. It seems our man with the Midas touch has produced yet another stunningly good track for your listening pleasure, taking one step back in time and another firmly lodged in the future.; The Invisible Man -The Bell Tune (INSa 241's LO remix) by INSa 241

Schoco - A Little Journey... (FREE D\L)

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

Digital Acetate-New record label

Digital Acetate is a record label, specialising in Future Jungle, JTek, Breaks & Jungle on the Intelligent side ranging from 140-170bpm. Alistair Brown aka ViSible Sound is the owner and promises big things from Digital Acetate in the future and will feature many artists, some of which already very established within the scene. If you are a producer within the scene please send your dubs this way, time will be taken to listen and if they fit the DA ethos then a signing could be on the agenda. 1st release will be up soon and is planned for around August/Septemeber time Keep your eyes and ears open.
http://www.facebook.com/DigitalAcetate
http://soundcloud.com/digital-acetate-label

D Audi : Sent for you (clip) forthcoming by Digital Acetate (Label) D Audi : Sent for you, ViSible Sound remix (clip) Forthcoming by Digital Acetate (Label)

TIME TRAVEL - A DRUM & BASS RETROSPEC (2008-2012)

Have yourself a mix for your listening pleasure from Melbourne finest, Time Travel taking you on a journey of some of his best tunes from 2008-2012

TIME TRAVEL - A DRUM & BASS RETROSPEC (2008-2012) by Jules Timetravel on Mixcloud

Gappa G & HyperHypa - River Niger - (Bay B Kane VIP) !!!Free Download!!!

And so to today's tune of the day, any jungle lover remembers the nookie remix of this track from back in the mid 90s, I must admit to not actually having heard the original by Gappa G himself so I'm taking this remix by the master, Bay B Kane on it's own merits and it sounds great, nice mellow rolling future jungle vibes, the saxaphones really add a nice element to it, kind of reminds me of T Power's 'Horny Mutant Jazz'. Much as using such tags almost seem like cliches, LTJ Bukem and the 'inteligent jungle' style comes to mind when I listen to this and it offers some welcome diversity in the future jungle sound, really and truly its worth paying for but you lucky people are getting it for free, enjoy........... Gappa G & HyperHypa - River Niger - (Bay B Kane VIP) !!!Free Download!!! by Bay B Kane

NuRaveRadio-29042012-StrangeNotes live old skool and rising lantern dub plate special

Strangenotes Jungle has a guest show on the last Sunday of each month at www.nu-rave.com 6-8pm, always a must listen, this show was no exception, 1hr of classic brock out 94 style jungle and the 2nd hour was a showcase of tracks from the back catalogue of the superb Rising Lantern recs including their brand new album 'Dub Plate Specials Vol 1' which can be bought here https://www.ravedownload.com/Labels/Rising-Lantern/Dub-Plate-Special-Vol-1/prod_2713.html and includes a track and a remix by Strangenotes himself, get on it!! NuRaveRadio-29042012-StrangeNotes live old skool and rising lantern dub plate special by strangenotes.dj-mixs

Rising Lantern recs presents 'Dub Plate Specials vol 1'

If you like deep melodic, atmospheric and bass heavy jungle ranging from 140-170bpm, then you will need this forthcoming compilation from this top grade independent label based in Melbourne,Australai run by brothers Time Travel & Mshcode. There really is something for everyone here with great tracks and remixes by the brothers themselves, Strangenotes Jungle, Kranky & lethal, Rich Tones, Visible Sound and more, listen to these clips below to hear just how good this is. Will be available as a Digital release (Bundle) through www.ravedownload.com & www.junglistdownload.com

Interview: So Deep So Pressa

In the first of a series of interviews Kidchameleon talks to some of new and old hands of the 140 scene. Kicking things off with deep dub jungle master Pressa!

1. Hi Joe thanks for taking some time to do this interview with us. for those wh have yet to come across you can you give a bit of history about Pressa.

I'm a music producer and DJ from south east London/north west Kent that makes (sub) bass heavy music usually at 140 beats per minute which tends to be in the styles of dubstep or 140/future jungle.

I started off as just a dj playing garage and then drum n bass. I later decided that I wanted to learn how to produce and tried my hand at making a dnb tune. I wasn't very good with the 170 bpm tempo so made some stuff at 140 and it was a lot better straight away. At the time I thought what I was making was jungle and dub influenced grime/sublow. I later heard some dubstep and it was the closest thing to what I was making so I looked in to it more and got more involved with the scene.

In recent times I've been more known as a deep dubstep producer but have been focusing on the straight up 140 jungle stuff more recently.

2. Your sound is quite a deep melodic dubby sound, which few people are doing at the moment, were you always more into the deep end than the amen led stuff?

I've always been in to vibes and bass weight, if music hasn't got that in I don't see the point really! But yeah my music has always been pretty much on the deeper side of the music spectrum, easy on the ear kind of stuff.
As for amen breaks, I stay clear quite a bit because so many producers use them a lot. I do use them some times but more as an under layer.

3.You have just had an awesome release on Top Drawer Digital, alongside dutch junglist Bojcot. What was the idea behid this project and will we be seeing you two teaming up again?

Thanks. Lucas approached us to see if we were interested in doing a remix EP for the label, so me and Bojcot spoke about it and decided to go ahead with it.

There wasn't really an idea behind the project other than we would remix each others track, "Fast Motion 11" is called 11 and not "Fast Motion 10" remix as we decided it sounded too different from the original.

Me and Bojcot Selectah have been sending each other beats for around 3 years now as we both make jungle flavoured dubstep and more straight forward jungle at 140 bpm (not much was being made back then). We will definitely be working on something in the future!

4. What software/hardware do you use, to create the warmth of tracks like lost in time.

I use Reason, Recycle and a whole mess of samples to create my sound.

5. Where you do draw you influences from outside of jungle?
Dub, house, garage, oldskool hardcore, dnb, minimal techno, film soundtracks and day to day life experiences are probably my main influences.

6. How do you feel about the whole "future" term being used? It seems to be quite a hot topic in terms of branding music these days.

I think it's ok if the music is forward thinking, using new sounds and techniques I suppose. It does get used a lot.

To be honest I haven't really been following the future jungle sound till recently as I was just doing my own thing. I need to get at more producers for tunes haha.

7. Who will you be watching out for this coming year?

I'm sure Bojcot Selectah is building some heavy tunes at the moment so I'm gonna keep an eye out for him, oh and Graish as well as the Top Drawer Digital lot.

Joe has also included this rad mix for you all to download for your branded/non branded mp3 players

The So fast so serious ep is out now on Top Drawer Digital and is available from all good download stores

Tune Of The Day: Pressa - Lost In Time

Not many have foraged into the deep ambient end of 140, pioneered by the likes of LTJ bukem, Nookie to name a few.
Lost in time by Pressa brings this sound right up to date and adds his trademark dubby twist.

Full interview coming soon with this fast rising talent of the 140 scene