This is an old skool ragga jungle explosion that I recorded in 2008, but all the tracks are way older, like 91-94 , in fact kickin off with a moody boys half-stepper from 1990 on XL recordings from before they even had breakbeat hardcore on the label! yeah. Moody Boys (Tony Thorpe) has been back in style with dubstep flavas in the last few years and here's a taste of where he was at 2 decades ago. Moving through some ragga breakbeat bizness from Ragga Twins, Rebel MC (later to formCongo Natty empire) and SL2, before pushing the tempo up through the development of the jungle tekno ardkore sound until we get to the real jungle sounds of Leviticus, DJ Nut Nut and yes, General Levy. Very controversial at the time for some comments he made about how he owned jungle or came up with the formula or some such BS, but time has been kind to this tune and it still sounds wicked. Underground tunes are mixed up with classic outings from Shy FX and Remarc round of the mix in firin style.
Tracklist
| 1 | Free by Moody Boys |
| 2 | 18 inch speaker by Ragga Twins |
| 3 | The Wickedest Sound (Soundclash Mix) by Rebel MC |
| 4 | Tribal Base by Rebel MC |
| 5 | Way In My Brain by SL2 |
| 6 | Hard Times by Nu Matic |
| 7 | Beats + Culture (Spliff Mix) by Psychopaths |
| 8 | On A Ragga Tip by SL2 |
| 9 | Phuture Sound by Phuture Assassins |
| 10 | The Burial by Leviticus |
| 11 | Good Body Girl by DJ Monk |
| 12 | Special Dedication by DJ Nut Nut |
| 13 | Incredible by General Levy |
| 14 | Cheeba 95 by Project 1 |
| 15 | Agony by Angie Angel / Don Lloyd / Lewi |
| 16 | Gangsta Kid by Shy FX |
| 17 | Original Nuttah by UK Apachi & Shy FX |
| 18 | Fire by Prizna |
| 19 | For Real (Remix) by Remarc |
| 20 | Surrender by M Beat |
| 21 | Sound Murderer by Remarc |
so good! i at first only got dubstep from this site, but this mix turned me on to jungle and drum n' bass!
cheers mate. Really good to hear that! The oldskool hardcore jungle tekno from the early 90s is about 140bpm like dubstep too.
Nice mix, loving the old-skool, There the sort of tunes i want to start mix, Check out my oldskool dnb/jungle mix
nice 1,this brought back some good good memories,nice sounds,cheers
Not only is this perfectly mixed (Gangsta Kid into Original Nuttah is invisible!) but it's a dead-on chronological history of the evolution of ragga in the music. You should charge tuition!
Thanks for the props fella! This has been my most popular mix on house-mixes!
To notch brother - cheers.
Big up bro!
nice
Oldskool at it best
Bit of a sideways step for me, but lovin dem beats. Some seamless mixing, hungry for more.....
Downloaded on the merit of the intro alone. Deeeeeep mix brother!
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