shadowboxing » andy c http://shadowboxing.org burning down the dance Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:30:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Old School Jungle Super Post http://shadowboxing.org/2010/02/old-school-jungle-super-post/ http://shadowboxing.org/2010/02/old-school-jungle-super-post/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:20:30 +0000 Wes http://shadowboxing.org/?p=404 I’ve tossed around the idea of a super jungle post for awhile and finally decided that it needed to happen. So I spent about five hours pooling a few of my favorite old school jungle sets from the last decade that I feel are really worth sharing. You can either download the sets individually from the links below, or you can yank them all as two big ass zip files at the bottom of the post.

The audio varies because of the age of the recording or the original source material. Some are encoded at really high bit-rates while others might have some hiss and pop. However all of the sets fall into the range of “good” to “great” sound quality.

DJ Hype – A Mixed Up Joint (1993)

Dieselboy – Supreme (1995)

Mickey Finn – Mix Magic (1993)

Fabio – The Orbit (1992)

Roni Size – Live @ Jungle Quake w/ MC Dynamite (1995)

DJ Dara – Bass 2 Dark (1995)

A Guy Called Gerald – Essential Mix (1995)

Bailey – Intelligence (1995)

Andy C – Live @ Dreamscape 23: A View To A Thrill w/ MC Fearless (1996)

Brockie – Live on One In The Jungle w/ MC Det (1995)

Doc Scott – Live @ Metalheaz – The Blue Note w/ MC Justyce (1997)

LTJ Bukem – Essential Mix w/ MC Conrad (1995) Part 1
LTJ Bukem – Essential Mix w/ MC Conrad (1995) Part 2

Kenny Ken – Unknown Studio Mix w/ GQ (1994?)

Old School Jungle Sets Part 1
Old School Jungle Sets Part 2

**Note – Added the missing Kenny Ken studio mix and the second part of LTJ Bukem’s ’95 Essential Mix. Cheers to Mikey Syphon for correcting the Bukem mix and providing the first half.



]]> http://shadowboxing.org/2010/02/old-school-jungle-super-post/feed/ 1 Telepathy Vol 3 1994 http://shadowboxing.org/2010/01/telepathy-vol-3-1994/ http://shadowboxing.org/2010/01/telepathy-vol-3-1994/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:17:04 +0000 Wes http://shadowboxing.org/?p=308 Someone took the time to rip every set from a Telepathy tape pack that was recorded on February 25th, 1994. The sound varies from rip to rip, but it’s an awesome piece of jungle nostalgia. The zip file is a whopping 630mb with 14 separate mp3s each averaging about 43 minutes each.

Sets (sound quality in parentheses):
Andy C (very good)
Ash Attack (poor)
Brockie (good)
Cool Hand Flex (very good)
Devious D (poor)
Funky Flirt (fair)
Grooverider (very good)
Jumpin Jack Frost (very good)
Kemistry (good)
DJ Rap (good)
Randall (good)
Ray Keith (good)
Rodney T (fair)
Val Pachino (fair)
MCs: Stevie Hyper D, Shabba D, Det, MC MC, Fats, Fantastic

Telepathy Vol 3 – 1994

It’s pretty cool to catch Grooverider rocking ragga jungle tunes (he starts his set with Demolition Man’s “Fire”) when that’s so far from the style of music he’s known for today. If you’ve ever listened to any UK tape packs then you’ll know that these guys are notorious for playing the same tracks multiple times through out the night. However, it’s still cool to hear the classics jammed out on dubplate 16 years ago.

Stevie Hyper (RIP) seems to be the primary MC on every set, but he’s not overbearing and killing the mix. Shabba checks in on a few but he’s not the same guy you hear today chatting to hear himself talk. Fats is doing his thing over Cool Hand Flex’s set and MC MC is only featured towards the end JJ Frost’s set. As far as I can tell Det’s familiar baritone isn’t anywhere on the recordings. I’ve never heard Fantastic so I couldn’t tell you where he fits in here.

Sound Quality: poor to very good
Filetype: zip/mp3
Size: 630mb
Time: about 43 min
Bitrate: 128k



]]> http://shadowboxing.org/2010/01/telepathy-vol-3-1994/feed/ 1