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Mixmag Live Volume 15 – Jungle Jumping Jack Frost + Randall – 1994, DMC Publishing Mixmag Live Volume 15 – Jungle is a mix album produced by Mixmag and distributed by DMC Publishing. It’s the first such jungle/dnb mix in the Mixmag Live series and features mixes by two of the most pivotal pioneers in … Read more
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
Well, we got through it, the most boring month of the year, from here on in it’s just going to get warmer and hopefully more exciting. Unless you’re in Australia, in which case it’s going to get colder and there’s never a dull moment because all the fauna is constantly trying to kill you. Lucky … Read more
2023 is drawing to a close so best to recap it now before the New Year while we’re both still capable of processing the written word. Nothing too elaborate on this post, just some shout outs some of my favourite releases and producers for 2023, plus my pick for label of the year. For the … Read more
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
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