TRACKLIST would be 🔥

I don’t want to sound like a complete knob, but this documentary is kind of laughable. Seems every producer overseas doesn’t understand the fundamental roots of the music and where it comes from. I’ve been raving since early 92 here in the UK, sound system culture from Jamaica, the early inception of acid house, breakbeat tekno and the melting pot of race colours and creeds created the sound. It’s almost as if the centre piece as drum n bass is presented as a fad rather than Americans integration into what is a dominantly English scene. Not to mention the UK soundtrack you have playing in the background. Speaking outside of the UK, Toronto Canada has a way more authentic scene because of their cultural make up which is very similar to that of London

Jungle is hardcore’s unwanted bastard child

Jungle was something hardcore producers invented by accident because hardcore became so popular in 91-92 they wanted to make it darker so it was unpalatable for pop music and top of the pops so jungle was just a joke word used for darker sounds of hardcore but by 94 the darker sounds and more piano and bleepie hardcore split

So Dope!

I would like to hear about when and where the first jungle started to come into America and what DJs were you hearing about from the UK

I grew up in the early 90s to DnB with early raves .i would be realy interested to see what usa can do with it .infuse there heavy hip hop scene.

It’s been said many times before and I’ll say it again, it’s a lifestyle, once you get a taste of it, you will live and die with it. PENN BASS!

Really great documentary series, but to be fair...New York has never, ever been a mecca of drum n bass for the world as Reid Speed states.

FCK man I remember traveling to the UK some time in the mid/late 90’s and going to Blackmarket records and seeing all these heads. Got tipped to a proper warehouse rave…went off…mind blown. once it gets in the veins 💉🩸 🖤 you never forget the vibe 🫶🍭😎

Bro @18:42, what it’s all about right there 🖤🍭🫶

"People who don't get drum & bass, are just not smart enough." I LIKE IT.

Americans always trying to claim jungle took hip hop and flipped it. Erm no it's based off reggae dub. breaks wasn't from hip hop it's from funk which it's roots go way back to AFRICANS beating drums on some tribal ting. JUNGLE.

Great to see its got a following over there

Cleveland Ohio had a very good dnb scene when I was part of the rave culture from 1994-2000. Was hoping there would be something on there about it. Good times!

I like the thought of every dnb and jungle producer having a record of the winstons but only listen to the amen break, when put on. 😅

i love it how you all leave out that the person who was the first ever jungle producer from the states is broke and homeless cause when there is documentary's like this made thy either lie and say ak1200 is the first or just ignore even though the ppl that make your them song clamed he is family you all brunch of frauds and chumps do a publicity stunt look now you got a press pass

Big Up StateSide Junglist and Junglist World Ride.

I feel like there needs to be a 2nd part to this documentary. There are a few more areas that weren't featured in this documentary & need to be showcased out there.

DMV what up! 3D productions keeping it going out of DC!

Can anyone i.d. tune at 28.30?

The TOP, Lower Haight SF, Tuesday night DnB, my church, only 3 blocks from my place...so lucky...miss it.

Track id at 10.00 please please please Hardcore will never die Big up all Junglists Amen

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Do you sell The American Jungle t-shirt??? I'd buy it!

Nasa is mentioned in the movie kids

Gregory c Coleman, never knew what he would single handedly create, a whole culture that will live on long after we have gone, man deserves more credit

Chitown 90's MASSIVE!! ALL the Jungle Book DJ's. Big ups!!!

Really enjoyed this i had no idea that it was big in America being from London and grew up on jungle and was lucky enough to experience the rave screen in the late 90s when it was smahing it..

God gave us Jungle ... AMEN 🙏❤️

It's a shame that you just missed the Twitch game. Maybe Pt 4?

A brilliant trilogy. Fair play. This was fascinating.

First and final KZbin comment. Honestly bro this doc was amazing. So well done, really enjoyable to watch! Some inspo in there for my next set :)

Not sure about the American story but DJ Hype can certainly explain the U.K. evolution

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I moved to New York from Denver December of 1993 in the fall of 94 I Cassien aka Cassien of Legend became the catalyst to and first resident dj for Konkrete Jungle, 97-2002 I was resident dj for Rumble Sessions/Direct Drive. I was the Jungle drum and bass buyer and seller at Throb records 95-97 then from 97-2000 seller at Breakbeat Science then Jungle drum and bass buyer and seller for Liquid Sky/Final Home 2000-2002 I left New York in 2007 moved to LA worked at Amoeba records in their dance electronic music section. I moved back to Denver in 2014 and in this November of 2021 I will be launching Konkrete Jungle Mile High at the Black Box.

Where da tracklist

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4bNlouqlLtmnqM and here is a documentary from the UK from 1994 which is the golden era of the jungle and the Peak big up all the UK and USA junglelists

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6uYoKaAe91sitE here is a mix by one of the original jungle DJs called dj rap and she plays some old jungle classics a real original UK jungle pioneer

The real pioneer people in the UK jungle were people like grooverider and Fabio! Jumping Jack frost! Ron! Randall! Goldie! Brockie! Mickey finn! Hype! Rap! Ltj bukem! Dillinja! Devious d! Khemistry and storm! Kenny ken! Doc Scott! SS ! And some of the MCs were mc moose! Navigator! 50!. Dett! GQ! Bassman! Trigga and many more

All i can tell you guys is that when it happened believe me that it was only a certain amount of people who want down with it because they liked the rave high energy house so it was a lot of the old soul guys and bboys and reggae head's and the real deal music heads but let me tell you that there was some parties like roast and jungle fever etc and they were some of the most amazing funky arse jams i have ever seen!!

I was there at the start of the jungle and I had been involved in the acid house scene in Blackburn and Manchester and I loved the early deep Chicago house the real acid house scene but the scene was going commercial and piano house was all over the place so when they started isolating the hip hop samples and breaks from the hardcore and speeding them up jungle was born and they were calling it jungle techno at first and it was like a breakers revenge for me because I had been a bboy and loved the early hip hop and electros and I always said at the start i wonder what America would think of this?.. so now as a 49 year old man who was 20 when it started and 24 when I was going to the best parties in the country I can't believe how cool this is...At first it was known as jungle techno!!

I would love to hear about how the jungle came to America and when and what they knew about the DJs from here in the UK

Hey guys let's not forget that the hip hop flavour is also one of the biggest influences in jungle

For me I had been involved with the acid house scene in Blackburn and Manchester and my friends were DJs and we went to all the best parties! However I have always been a bboy and loved the early hip hop and electros and the real deep Chicago house the real acid house was brilliant but the scene was going commercial and just piano house and I was fed up with it so at the time the hardcore music was center stage and then they started to isolate the break beats and hip hop flavour breaks and speeding them up and then the hardcore went out of it and jungle was born jungle techno was what they were calling it at first and the first jungle techno night i went to was in July 91 in Birmingham and it was like a breakers revenge for me and I then started going to all the best jungle parties in London and Birmingham every weekend! The roast quest! Jungle fever!.. And loads of them!.. in 94 which i think was the golden era and the peak of the jungle it started going a bit dark and gangsta and commercial and then drum and bass was coined and the scene was good but you had to go to the right one because there was some that were not really good!..i am now 49 and I was 19 or 20 when it began here and 24 when I was going to the best jungle parties and they had got it down to a fine art with the killer sound systems!.I would love to hear about what happened in America

It was good to hear that guy who said that he was a bboy and the breaks made him like the jungle!. I would be interested to hear how the jungle came to America and how they first heard about it and what they knew about the UK scene..

One little snippet with AK1200? WTF????? POTD was HUGE, I was fortunate enough to see them once, even partied with Dara when he came here solo. Miss those days.

Big up to the USA for embracing the sound. I love seeing and hearing the American take on it.

Bull, we did the techno, UK turned breakbeat to drum n bass in 91' and brought it to djs in chicago exclusively and we made our own thing and at some point stopped importing, made our own beats and it went completely underground with what once were hip hop and house and techno djs transformed breakbeat dnb into American jungle and it spread out from Chicago early. And when in the Uk they had venues and all ages places early on, we never had a place - so we became nomadic and it became a social thing with parties mostly illegal in barnes to squat condemned buildings, to fields, houses, storage facilities etc. like pop up rainbow gatherings. And it died out in about 00' when it went mainstream, but we kept and keep it alive. We only had a few main venues in the whole US, the rest were all raves and a culture this created within the electronic music community that already existed, and there were literally few of us and few djs and alot of tape trading. It created a spiritual culture here, while in the UK it evolved because it had the popularity - we never saw that - at all. When the jungle book came out in chicago it blew up and we could see others like us after that until the UK stuff hit in 2000 and after. We didn't like the UK stuff because it was too commercial. We had scratching records, the UK had the expensive equipment, we were analog, they were digital. We were spiritual about it and the UK was more into the future of it. Then they started stealing our old techno beats to create new forms of d n b like London funky etc. They just took our old techno records and tweaked them. It went US UK then back to US in the nineties to the UK again this time we got nothing back but commercial well organized polished tracks. Alright editing, I wrote this a year back and quickly, sloppily, but I don't want to change anything because it's somewhat what happened. Perhaps one day I'll attach a better picture

Took long enough to get to the actual American history