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Ok, little confession. One of the sounds that got me into dance music, is the proto jungle sound of breakbeat hardcore (jungle techno anyone). Likely the connection of 135 bpm house beats with the looped breakbeat percussion….ok enough musical wankery, I just like the shit, I think it absolutely gets shit jumpin’.

So DJ Randell, Digital, Outrage, and a few other djs and producers I don’t know and never heard of since I stop following jungle, have started a label reviving the Jungle techno sound, called JTek Records. they have a few releases out, and a Myspace space with a few tracks up there. I love Sunday Morning Remix which grabs samples from Blaze’s “Lovelee Dae”.

I’m hoping I can start grabbing their stuff off Beatport soon!

Yes, so I am an immensely lazy fuck. I admit it, I have a bad habit of only jumping on and posting when the mood takes me, and the last time I did that was…..when i launched this site.

NO MORE.

I need to pay more love and TLC to this thing, really, to help keep my sanity and my creativity going. with the way my days are, I can have the life sucked out of me if I don’t watch myself…

So speaking of creativity, I have give some props to Greg Wilson of Electrofunkroots.co.uk. Apparently, a white guy coming out of the black underground music scene, this guy was a DJ playing out at clubs in London in the mid to late 70’s. Turns out he was the first guy to mix records live on TV, in the time before DJs mixed records as they did in the US. Most disco jocks were pretty much played tracks back to back; the American style of mixing that people like Larry Levan + co had yet to reach over there. Well this dude did some really cool tape delay, and beat matching, layering and mixing live on the air, and pretty much inspired a lot of people to totally rethink mixing, and black music as a whole. Click here for the youtube vid.

While I tend to be very critical of when people “discover” music artforms by creative black youth who are light-years ahead of the curve of everyone, this guy gets a pass in my book. Peep the site, check out his mixes, and show some love.