Joey Beltdrives’ Bumpy Backspins: 1994’s Summer Of Jungle  

The Summer of Jungle - Mixmag 1994

30 Years Ago Mixmag Declared 1994 To Be “The Summer Of Jungle” – we’ve come a long way since! Jungle is a hybrid of dance music popularised in the early to mid 90s which fuses high-speed hardcore breakbeats with elements of hiphop, ragga and dancehall. Its roots, pun fully intended, are clearly in the British … Read more

Release Roundup – February 2024

House Techno Breaks DnB downtempo releases February 2024

February 2025 was an epic month for releases which makes this one an epic post. We’ve got a modern classic revisited plus plenty of old skool vibes for the house heads plus the full spectrum of techno from introspective experimentalism right to up to industrial strength nose bleeders. There’s also a whole ton of big … Read more

Release Roundup – September 2023

Release roundup September 2023

Been another hectic month with lots of interesting releases, news of more exiting releases on the way, not to mention lots of 30th anniversaries I really wanted to make sure are covered here. But anyways, at the risk of sounding unpopular (perish the thought) let’s get this out of the way: So now that I’ve … Read more

Release Roundup – July 2023

July2023-Roundup

Some months are quiet release-wise, but this July has been bountiful. The weather might be shit but we’ve been spoiled with good tunes at least, including the first new official EP in years from Aphex Twin, Blackbox Life Recorder, plus my album of the month from Nntng. In the interests of time, I’ve jettisoned any notions of … Read more