Episode 37: Kenny Ken, 1/2: Climbing from the Underground to the top of the jungle!

[@TakeMeBackPirateRadio]

Massive respect Kenny Ken!! Another epic interview.

[@jasonsmith8197]

There is no better than Kenny Ken !!!

[@mohsdef]

He holds the belt. Jungle soundclash

[@nigelbenn4642]

Gold Cup winner always

[@yamyite]

Sound clash is available to watch on KZbin if you’ve not heard/seen it 👍🏻

[@raymondbamford7061]

Beating the likes of micky finn and dj rap

[@Soapy555]

Excellent interview. Great to hear his honesty, much appreciated and rare these days. Good stuff.

[@thedriftmc]

Some of the best sets EVER at AWOL. Everyman will always be among my most meaningful Jungle tracks...

[@DeleteTheWeak]

Amazing. What a lovely man with a humbling story. This is a great channel and I’m going to pledge some financial support. We need to capture these stories before they are lost. Great work

[@ROARUKPods]

Thanks dude. 🙌

[@RennieDJ]

Kenny Ken - always been one of my favourite jungle DJ's - His Dreamscape 20 is a classic (95 style) probably listened to that mix 300+ times over last 16 years!! but wow his story is fuckin deep man!! massssive big up.

[@factnotifaction8019]

A proper legend and humble with it 🙌

[@jamesfaircloth8588]

Kenny ken was brilliant at dance paradise great yarmouth norfolk feb 12 or 14 94 the same night top buzz played and i think ltj bukem and clarkee and there was a live pa from the dream frequency obviously i had heard kenny more times after in the mid 90.s.such a class dj kenny ken he was always mixed in the light side of the jungle and drum n bass with the darkside jungle drum n bass 🙂👍

[@DilbertWhitehead]

Just stumbled across this podcast, great place to start with Kenny Ken 👌🏼 Cue hours of listening time going through these 👊🏼

[@ROARUKPods]

Welcome!

[@DilbertWhitehead]

@@ROARUKPods cheers mate, will be here for the long haul

[@T4Truth1]

Micky Finn definitely wasn't the first to use breaks

[@simonhiggs3305]

Yes Kenny Ken wheel n come again my selecta!!!!

[@bb-lp1ym]

great work guys , another brilliant interview with a Quest regular

[@danieltowns8010]

The only jungle DJ back in the day to mix basslines instead of beats, must be the reggae background. Maximum respect Kenny. In my mind the greatest ever.

[@ORGPPL1]

The Acid House scene was not All about 'Peace and Love'. Criminals were selling drugs, robbing other dealers, ravers and some promoters.

[@lovesmusic5504]

I was born and lived in Amersham. Until this video that place was so insignificant it’s unbelievable. However now... This is now my claim to fame!! Cheers Kenny, cheers ROAR!! 🦁 👊🏻👊🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😁😁

[@breakz187]

I fucking love these videos! This channel is truly awesome.

[@93raver09]

I witnessed kenny tearing down 12 Dalston Lane on that eskimo sound system at Labrynth. Also his AWOL sets were legendary. Loved the interview 🙌

[@nongfuspring2916]

One of my favourite ever sets was Kenny Ken @ Tribal Gathering 96 - was lucky enough to have been in the crowd and then when we got the tape it was on a loop in the car for literally months! So good

[@djhaynes99]

The DJ Dazee set is really decent too

[@nongfuspring2916]

@@djhaynes99 will have to rediscover that one!

[@damiencrowe6098]

I agree, I was there too.. great stuff

[@stringzoflife]

Love the Kenny Ken express, he's so down to earth, a real Everyman!

[@thedriftmc]

Used to play Jungle tapes over the tannoy on the forecourt when I was working the night shift at the petrol station.... about '94/95.

[@garyfurner1227]

What a top bloke kenny is,love his stories and the way he talks about grooverider ,keep up the good work Tom.

[@ROARUKPods]

Cheers Gary. We want to, just on a funding drive which will help do exactly that. If you can contribute that’s be a massive help! Check out Patreon. You get stuff in return too!!

[@LeonEdwards1976]

Ken a humble good bloke - nice one enjoying this episode :)

[@simonlidbetter175]

King of the jungle for sure 👌🏽

[@nigelbenn4642]

This man and Fearless mashed up a hall every time. Love him.

[@siemprefelizzz]

You see Kenny Ken, he played one of the best jungle sets I have ever heard. I think the absolute best. They all played good, but MC's loved mc'ing for him, because they knew he was going to make the crowd go fkn bonkers!!! Yeh man Kenny is a wkd DJ

[@lovesmusic5504]

Kenny Ken & GQ @ AWOL... = SUBLIME 👊🏻👍🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👏🏻👏🏻. R.I.P. AWOL. Simply the best club of its time !!

[@grahamseddon2155]

Great interview with Kenny Ken, nice & honest as well, also well done Tom. Can you get to interview Nicky Blackmarket sometime, that would be an interesting one as well

[@slimreaper...skinnyman5467]

Keeping the scene alive ...till we die.......rated and saluted cetified Bossmen

[@kevinwebster1793]

Another awesome episode . can't wait for the next part.

[@djpassionjungledrumnbass4525]

Late eighties early nineties great memories !Selling tape packs on the market Kenny ken always top seller but Kenny you not old enough to be my grandad I'm 54 soon remember..ha ha.

[@factnotifaction8019]

Wolverhamptons nights like quest and amazon built the foundations for midlands dnb

[@scaley1972]

Used to Rave every weekend to Kenny Ken at Labrynth. Proper Down to Earth Geezer and a Top Dj.

[@nickgough5348]

Definitely kenny in my top 5 Dj's

[@johnburnett1981]

Another wicked interview with another Don! Big up Kenny Big up Chrissy

[@thedriftmc]

COYG!!

[@redskyatnight123]

I've just been sharing your channel love round all my local fb pages and rave groups,I really hope you get more and more rave crew,this is by far the best rave podcast in my view and I'm sure others total respect for what you're doing I think its freaking great 👍 especially enjoyed the ribbzy interview such a humble great guy ,then again there all great,I love it ,I loved raving then best days of my life, thank you for the awesome content respect to you fellow raver ,oi oi 🤪👍👍

[@ROARUKPods]

Thanks man. Need to get the Patreon memberships up to create more content as it costs quite a lot! 😆

[@nikko7507]

Kenny Ken the Don along with Randall , 2 of the best to ever do it Both 👑

[@oldskoolordie]

Great interview, thanks again. I know it's a serious incident but the gunfight stopping to let Kenny Ken through made me laugh. Make way for the king of jungle. 🤣🤣

[@0e0]

The Kenny Ken and Randall back to back sets from the early days are some of the most hungry upfront sets in all of jungle hardcore.

[@michaelb4103]

Great interview again! Love to hear a interview with Donovan bad boy Smith, easygroove and Robbie dee

[@raymondbamford7061]

Love all three of them,Donovan bad boy Smith especially

[@simonlidbetter175]

I totally agree, would love to see any of those three!

[@raymondbamford7061]

One of my best ever cassettes"and I've had hundreds"is Kenny Ken playing at quest in 93,I think it was called the mysterons

[@tink6212]

Loved Kenny Ken, legend!

[@EpicWinz]

Gotta love the Kenny Respect

[@raymondbamford7061]

Kenny Ken is bang on,when the scene split after hardcore all of a sudden there was two or three genre's of a scene that was generally under one umbrella,suddenly you had hardcore,jungle,drum and bass and happy hardcore.big raves at the sanctuary played two or three of those genre's in the main arena and I remember going upstairs when the happy hardcore dj's came on

[@redskyatnight123]

Yes the legend kennyyyyyy kennn wicked man love this channel

[@breakerbreaker292]

I have to say, Kenny got me into DJ'ing. In 1996 my pal had a CD... History of Hardcore: Moving Shadow/Suburban Base (kzbin.info/www/bejne/mITWkGSJr8ehrqs) which Kenny mixed... and this showed me how two tunes can become one, and if you don't know those tunes... you might not even know there were two tunes playing. This is the art of mixing, the style of which Kenny is a master of. Once I heard his DJ'ing I quickly got myself a set of 1210's so I could have a go at the art myself. Sadly these days music is so disposable, most DJ's just beat match with a CDJ and bang on one tune after another. Big up to Kenny, a lot of respect to this man.

[@steveb6768]

Love that you left all that in at the start bit of reality never hurt anyone in fact quite the opposite. Great interview one of the best for me and a fellow Junglist / Hackney man is all good with me. Big up Kenny 🙏

[@Dbreakz1]

Kenny "Ya nart arrr mean?" Ken🎧 If ROAR got a £1 for everytime he said that during the interview they wouldn't need us to donate anymore 😂

[@djhaynes99]

The Origins of Jungle and Drum & Bass book from 97 does mention who went to the council meetings, Bukem also talks about it in a interview saying in 1995 we all got together and promised not to sign to major labels, then in 1996 most people did.

[@dc110770]

Kenny Kennnnnn! Interesting to hear comments on (happy) hardcore and the scene splitting. Never sure where the land lies for tunes such as Freestyle and DJ R - madness, Spinback and Windmill - in effect , Lord of the null lines etc. Might be one to put to the next guest?

[@andyfigg6626]

Loved this. Kenny is a don

[@mrleog8476]

Yesss I it was ther Amazon!!! Kenny ken! It went off!!! 🤔

[@RennieDJ]

love the outtake at the beginning!! lol

[@ROARUKPods]

Lol, totally deliberate. 😬

[@RennieDJ]

@@ROARUKPods When you have to choose between the truth and the legend, choose the legend. 🐝 😎👊

[@MCWurdzI]

Glad you changed the headline! Your guests have been very open about their history but they might not be so forthcoming in the future if they think you’ll go all Daily Mirror on ‘em when you publish it like! ;)

[@ROARUKPods]

Hands up, we got it wrong and decided it was right to change it.

[@Sykee1983]

What was it before?

[@vexathebassinjector]

Shoutout Saxon Sounds and Unity! Original junglists!!

[@simoncharles8246]

Ken.... Thanks mate. I thought it was the only one. It's still jungle

[@bigrick4905]

one of the best, wicked kenny ken

[@awall7635]

Kenny Ken, so good they named him twice!!

[@generalmassive1907]

Kenny kenny ken 🤘🤘🤘 The one and only soundclash selecta 😎 King of the jungle 😜

[@motiontracker5395]

“Randall was some next level shit…” Legends

[@xbiggy1]

The night in Wolverhampton was an Amazon night. We were at the night and remember coming down the stairs to get out and gunshots rang out. Security turned us all back up the stairs back into the main room and out the back fire escape. Not how you want a night to end and pretty much that was us done with going to Jungle nights sad to say.

[@stringzoflife]

I got shot so many times as Jungle nights! And rude boys hitting me with their crack pipes, it was too much man.

[@xbiggy1]

@@stringzoflife It was a shame how it went so moody. CS Gas and all sorts going off at nights in Brum.

[@richardevans7035]

My mates went to Aston villa leisure centre back in the 90s , one of the worst raves ever as they got Robbed and there was lots of bad Attidues

[@plantbaseddiet3397]

Wow so sad im sorry for the guys that experienced badness ..I' m from the Midlands, raved at Amazon and many other places and witnessed the same incidents but not just in Midlands in other areas too but one thing it didn't stop me doing was enjoying the rave scene and still enjoy the scene to this day...respect to this channel and the1 and only Kenny Ken 😀

[@BillyMustang101]

Having been involved in the scene for over 30 years, best way to get yourself noticed is definitely through production and secondly as Kenny said, get to know the promoters. The scene is still tight and it helps who you know.

[@DJAndeKarmaRecordings]

Big announcement all, Karma recordings is coming soon and the man like Kenny Ken has remixed our first release, this is going to be big!!

[@ROARUKPods]

Nice man. Well done.

[@DJAndeKarmaRecordings]

@@ROARUKPods cheers fella. Closer to release will send over for the channel 👍🏻

[@jimibirbeck1996]

Wheeell up on the intro Tom! 😂

[@ROARUKPods]

Totally deliberate! 😬

[@toasterboy708]

Yes Ken! We know what you mean.

[@redskyatnight123]

My freind dj unity used to play labyrinth hed have an interesting story to tell, he made an awesome tune called keep coming

[@OriginalPrincey]

He's my friend too😊

[@spencerfoster8634]

Why does every proper raver love the Ken... 'cos e was always one of us.

[@lovesmusic5504]

@tom. Can you put up the direct link for membership ?

[@ROARUKPods]

Sure. Patreon.com/ROARUKPods. 👍

[@lovesmusic5504]

@@ROARUKPods nice one 👊🏻. All signed up! Keep up the great work. A GQ interview would be amazing 🤩

[@johnwoodcock6468]

Whats that tune with the piano playing during the r.o.a.r. adverts during the podcast.anyone know?cheers

[@ROARUKPods]

Which ad mate? Our one in the middle?

[@johnwoodcock6468]

@@ROARUKPods yes mate.great tune. A new one by the sounds of it. I never heard it before.

[@ROARUKPods]

Pursuit - Get R.O.A.R.

[@donmusico]

legend

[@Ellsmorecrew23]

Legend.

[@Aceface007]

Could give Liam Gallagher a run for his money with the amount of 'you know what I means!'

[@93raver09]

Has the regular listeners noticed every jungle/dnb DJj interviewed mention AWOL! If you haven't heard it check out AWOL live @ ministry pure vibes!! Big up the A Way Of Life and World Dance crew

[@snarlysausage4604]

nice one Kenny Ken!

[@crispy7945]

Sounds of da Kenny Ken run come tell a friend 😎

[@lovesmusic5504]

COYS 👌🏻AWOL 🔥🔥

[@ianfroud70]

Kenny ken fruit club Kenny ken ruffneck ting both times early 90s and he smashed it

[@nathanielf48]

Kenny Ken definitely one of the all time bests I hated when people started calling things jungle and dnb its all fuking jungle here in the west we loves it dark and if you don't understand the meaning of that word in this context you were one of these ohhh look at him or can't go there on that night or in that room they play that jungle music it's aggie. These people never gave it a chance I think they didn't like the look of the people the different get up. I liked it all hardcore jungletechno jungle pop reggae dancehall soul blues jazz classical ect ect I just think there was narowminded people back then and still today. Big up Kenny Ken mix and blen, to many good nights raving to him and the rest of the names dropped and the rest.

[@redskyatnight123]

Love it

[@FunkHumpty]

Can't believe he cut Kenny off when he was going to talk about the Crazy Club, just because he never heard of it and said it didn't have any impact on the scene! Although it might have been the first club to have a resident MC (Chalky White), resident female DJs (Tamsin and Rap). Magika made out in his interview he was the first Asian in the scene, but Ray Keith was resident at Crazy Club. Loads of big PA's.

[@ROARUKPods]

It’s a two hour interview pal, with loads to cover, and we are lucky we got that.

[@ROARUKPods]

And G says he was the first Asian MC...not first Asian.

[@FunkHumpty]

@@ROARUKPods Just felt a bit dismissive. Crazy Club at the Astoria and Rocket was legendary. Look into it. The promoters were even involved in the first ever night of the Ministry of Sound. It's only because they packed it all in back in the mid 90s pre internet it's not well documented.

[@ROARUKPods]

Sure there’s loads of stuff we missed. It’s in-depth, not exhaustive.

[@awall7635]

No Crazy Club no scene innit.

[@ians691]

Tony Wilson (not the Manchester one)

[@r0ndema]

I thought Tony Humphries tbh

[@simonlidbetter175]

I would of loved to of heard a bit more of his views on mcs apart from hyper d ..... he’s worked with so many great ones... quality interview all the same

[@kentldubz]

The mix an blen

[@xsm5525]

46:28

[@nikko7507]

You gotta ask him bout his favourite MCs ....

[@FivestackTHFC]

AWOL ♥️

[@lafluerpeter9]

KENNY KEN B2B WITH KENNY KEN 😂😂 You get the best ones at Wembley park tube station when you're teams just won.

[@skinnista]

paradise Angel, if you know you know

[@93raver09]

Awol crew big up

[@spencerfoster8634]

Kenny Ken's first piece of vynyl.... He doesn't disclose, so let's speculate.. My guess..Chaka Khan, feel for you.

[@robertsmithshair4199]

OIoi Holly Street!

[@skeennah1927]

The abilty to hide released tunes from other DJ's has now been lost, due to Shazam.............

[@twilolight]

I’m not going to lie, Kenny Ken said “you know what I mean” 242 times and “I’m not going to lie” 2 times, you know what I mean?

[@grahamseddon2155]

Perhaps he's nervous or just how he is

[@plantbaseddiet3397]

@Tiny Power he's from London or do you you not Overstrand their lingo and do u have nothing better to do than count how many times an artist says a certain word or sentence...wow..get a life

[@tomqelectronica]

1

[@clippzone1445]

No disrespect love the channel but let Kenny tell his story without interupting him.

[@wrestle259]

Gentrification mate