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Description of Jungle/Drum 'n' Bass

 
Jungle, with its seething polyrhythms and treacherous breakbeats, was born of hardcore in early 1990s as the U.K.'s response to the States' old-school hip-hop. Jungle tells a working-class urban youth's angry tales of social disintegration and instability, reflecting the fear and desperation of the times. A digitized offshoot of reggae, Jungle's language is comprised of muffled melodies and fractured loops. Reared by British B-boys like Goldie, Aphrodite and 4 Hero, who subsisted on electro, body-popping and graffiti, jungle spawned a number of subgenres, including the dark, anxiety-producing sounds of tech-step.
 

Top Jungle/Drum 'n' Bass Tracks

 
Play Track Artist Price
1. Bubble Life Squarepusher
$0.99
2. PFM - One And Only PFM
$0.99
3. Milan Karsh Kale
$0.69
4. Damage Kosheen
$0.99
5. Silent Morning Noel
$0.99
6. Star Time 2 Squarepusher
$0.99
7. Circlewave 2 Squarepusher
$0.99
8. Open Society Squarepusher
$0.99
9. Get Your Snack On Amon Tobin
$0.99
10. Death Is The Road To Awe Clint Mansell
$0.99
11. The Last Man Clint Mansell
$0.99
12. Brown Paper Bag Roni Size and Reprazent
$0.99
13. Kitchen Sink Amon Tobin
$0.99
14. Girl Wax Poetic
$0.99
15. T-4 Strain Goldie
$0.99
16. Easy Muffin Amon Tobin
$0.99
17. Teardrop of the Sun Echo
$0.99
18. Beautiful Karsh Kale
$0.99
19. Liberation Karsh Kale
$0.69
20. Together We Will Live Forever Clint Mansell
$0.99
21. Angels Wax Poetic
$0.99
22. Holy Dread! Clint Mansell
$0.99
23. Bridge Amon Tobin
$0.99
24. Mas Papaya (Lightning Head Remix) (Lightning Head Remix - Previously Unreleased) Sidestepper
$0.99
25. Ruthless Amon Tobin
$0.99
26. Stay With Me Clint Mansell
$0.99
27. Indigo Future Loop Foundation
$0.99
28. Tommib Squarepusher
$0.99
29. First Snow Clint Mansell
$0.99
30. Xibalba Clint Mansell
$0.99
31. Chomp Samba Amon Tobin
$0.99
32. Four Ton Mantis Amon Tobin
$0.99
33. Verbal - (featuring MC Decimal R.) Amon Tobin
$0.99
34. Work Clint Mansell
$0.99
35. Sordid Amon Tobin
$0.99
36. Escape Amon Tobin
$0.99
37. At The End Of The Day Amon Tobin
$0.99
38. Overkill (original) Kosheen
$0.99
39. People Like Frank Amon Tobin
$0.99
40. Reanimator Amon Tobin
$0.99
41. Spanish Sun (Bungle Remix) Bachelors Of Science
$0.99
42. Aunque Me Duela La Vida Sidestepper
$0.99
43. Transcendental Bitstream Dream
44. Like A Book Kosheen
$0.99
45. They Don't Know John B
$0.99
46. Yasawas Amon Tobin
$0.99
47. Saajana Karsh Kale
$0.99
48. Switch Amon Tobin
$0.99
49. Tree Of Life Clint Mansell
$0.99
50. Snowblind Minus 8
$0.99
 

Jungle/Drum 'n' Bass Key Albums

 
New Forms
(Bonus Tracks) $16.99

 

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Jungle/Drum 'n' Bass Key Artists

 
A Guy Called Gerald

Gerald Simpson has worked
with electronic styles
ranging from House to
Techno and is now
producing Drum 'n' Bass....

Amon Tobin

Eclectic jazz-minded drum
'n' bass producer Amon
Tobin (aka Cujo) lives in
London and is originally
from Brazil. Before he wa...

Andy C

Pioneer of the rolling sci-fi
sound central to drum ’n’
bass, Clarke has shaped Ram
into one of the scene’s
leading labels.

Aphrodite

Aphrodite gained fame
transplanting catchy ragga
stylings into the
stripped-down Jump-Up of
1995 dancefloors. Aphrod...

Dillinja

Prolific D&B producer,
dedicated to combining
tough street sounds with
complex breakbeats.

DJ Hype

With experience in mixing
reggae and hip-hop, Hype is
now one of London's top
D'n'B DJ, both on the
dancefloor and radio.

DJ Krust

Hard-edged Techstep
pioneer DJ Krust is a
member of Roni Size's
progressive D'n'B group,
Reprazent.

DJ Rap

Drum 'n' Bass vixen DJ Rap,
born Charissa Saverio, was
influenced by the British
rave scene in her
hometown, Southampton.

Goldie

With high intensity and pop
appeal, Goldie is an
international icon of
mainstream Jungle and
Drum 'n' Bass. Former girlf...

LTJ Bukem

With a background in jazz
and classical music, Bukem
has pioneered the sound of
Drum 'n' Bass and ambient
grooves. Bukem currentl...

Photek

Photek is England's Rupert
Parkes, an influential figure
in the drum 'n' bass scene.
Sometimes dubbed
"intelligent," his high-prec...

Plug

Luke Vibert (aka Wagon
Christ)'s mid-1990s
experimental Drum 'n' Bass
project.

Roni Size and Reprazent

With "New Forms" (1997),
Reprazent defined the state
of Drum 'n' Bass, weaving
jazzy riffs around dynamic
breaks. This drum 'n' bass...

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