Date:
1995
Category:
Aired:
13/07/1995Length:
55:56Bitrate:
128kb/s CBRFile size:
51 MBTags:
MC Navigator (Pilot Show)
Tracklist
01 – Original DJ Vibes & Hellrazor – Future Beats II [Breakthrough]
02 – DJ Biggs – The Hunter [Ministry Of Sound – AWOL: A Way Of Life – Live CD]
03 – ?
04 – ?
05 – Shut Up & Dance – Raps My Occupation [Shut Up & Dance]
06 – Shut Up & Dance – £10 To Get In (House Mix) [Shut Up & Dance]
07 – A Guy Called Gerald – 28 Gun Bad Boy [Columbia]
08 – A Guy Called Gerald – Gloc (Rmx) [Juice Box]
09 – Lennie De Ice – We R i.e. [i.e. Records]
10 – Smith & Mighty – Killa [Three Stripe – Steppers Delight EP]
11 – LTJ Bukem – Music (Happy Raw) [Good Looking]
12 – M-Beat feat General Levy – Incredible [Renk]
13 – Goldie – Inner City Life [FFRR – Timeless]
14 – Goldie – Pressure [FFRR – Timeless]
15 – Amen drums Digital is working on – they sound like the ones used in D4 – Careless [Deep Red]
16 – A bassline Digital is working on
17 – Nasty Habits – Here Comes The Drumz [Reinforced – As Nasty As I Wanna Be]
18 – Roni Size – All The Crew ‘Big Up’ (95 Lick) [V]
19 – More Rockers – Your Gonna [More Rockers – Dub Plate Selection Volume One]
20 – Tek 9 – Slow Down (Nookie Rmx) [Reinforced – Enforcers Volume Eight]
21 – Tom & Tom – Down Force (S’Touch Mix) [Deep Red]
22 – Firefox – Jungle A Run [Unreleased]
23 – Krust – Asian Love Dance (Mix 1) [Unreleased]
24 – Shy FX – Simple Tings (Alternative Mix) [SOUR]
Notes
Here’s a brief description of the people featured and the topics they discuss:
Over 03
I’m not sure who it is but he’s talking about the early roots of jungle and the progression of sampling/programming.
Over 04 & 05
PJ & Smiley talking about their sound system and how they were rappers but their music fitted better in the rave scene.
Over 05
DJ Rap talking about how she got into the scene and £10 To Get In being the track that made her want to get into DJing.
Over 06 & 07
A Guy Called Gerald talking about House music becoming pop music and that’s why he wanted to get out of it. He talks about getting into using breaks instead and listening to 4 Hero and Goldie. He talks about going down from Manchester to London every weekend to Rage and Sunday Roast and then going home and making the sort of tunes he heard there. He talks about getting “jacked up by these geezas with a shooter” and how it made him paranoid and this came across in his music, particularly referring to parts of the rhythms in The Glock Track being really intense.
Over 08
Tom (from Red Eye Records) talking about tracks at the end of 91 starting to use breakbeats as the most important thing in the tune, and producers moving from 4×4 to pure breakbeats by October / November 91.
Over 09
Rob Smith (from Smith & Mighty / More Rockers) talking about Steppers Delight being a deliberate effort to put some dub influences into a track, but the term Jungle not yet being used at this point.
Over 10
Roni Size talks about the Universe events (listening to Grooverider, Fabio and LTJ Bukem) and the moment when Bukem dropped his new tune, Music.
Over 11 & 12
I can’t catch the name but he’s talking about major labels and General Levy being used as a “face” by the media, and this upsetting a lot of producers. He talks about major record companies later getting a better handle on the scene and London Records signing Goldie and DJ Crystl.
Over 13
Goldie talking about sampling and how the new technology is enabling him to take someone’s loop and completely reinvent it.
Over 14 & 15
Digital demonstrating the W30 sampler, Cubase, a 16-track mixer and his Atari. He talks about putting effects on drums and plays an edited amen break from his new tune. He explains how he can use different sounding amen loops depending on what type of tune he’s making.
Over 16
Digital talking about different basslines.
Over 17
Goldie talking about DJs (Doc Scott, Nookie, Peshay, Randall) mixing and being able to catch a moment where they blend two tracks together and create a new track that nobody will ever hear anywhere else.
Over 18
Roni Size talking about the importance of a DJ, and how they are able to create a track, mix it down to DAT, cut a dubplate, and then play it that same night to 2000 people.
Over 18
Rob Smith (from Smith & Mighty / More Rockers) talking about testing the More Rockers tunes on dubplates, and hearing new elements coming out of mixing tracks together, and then using that idea on their album (referring to Dub Plate Selection Volume One).
Over 19 & 20 & 21
Tom (from Red Eye Records) talking about his shop and the label Deep Red Records. He talks about starting out as a dance music specialist shop but then splitting off and focusing on jungle / drum & bass. He talks about the shop doing well because there’s no club or pirate radio station in Ipswich, so people only have the shop to get hold of the music and listen to it. He describes how he has to sell the music to people because artists use a lot of different names, so there’s not many customers who’d recognise all the names on the wall or in the racks. There’s also soundbites of Tom talking to a customer in the shop – the customer already has the Johnny Jungle thing on Suburban Base, he’s interested in the Congo Natty remix coming out this week, and he’s playing at Hollywoods on 1st June.
Over 22
DJ Trace talking about pirate radio educating people to the music, how it’s like tuning in to a live set from a rave, and how there’s good communication between public and DJ. The Philly Blunt(??) track in the background is a live recording from Kool FM with MC Ryme Tyme.
Over 22
DJ Storm talking about pirate radio being an outlet for music that wouldn’t be heard without it, and how it’s been critical in getting the scene as big as it is. She talks about how DJ’s get the chance to impress an audience without needing to be booked for a rave.
Over 23
Krust talking about making for music for Talkin Loud whilst keeping Full Cycle at the same time. The major label can get the music all around the world, but Full Cycle allows them to make whatever they want.
Over 23 & 24
David Stone (owner of SOUR) talks about a lot of major labels having only one aim which is to get the track in the charts, but some majors have a good attitude towards the scene (London with Goldie, and RCA with MC Moose). He talks about how everyone’s nervous because of some of the early jungle experiences with major labels, but things are improving and people are finding ways of working together.
Over 24
Duncan (jungle reviewer for Echoes magazine) talking about how big jungle is, and the raves demonstrating that. He talks about the move towards artists albums, and how people say it won’t work, but the same people said the same thing about techno and hip hop. He talks about artist development as the key to future expansion and the importance of bringing it away from a faceless form of underground music.
Over 24
Goldie talking about the artists having to take responsibility for the growing culture.