Bangarang @ The Castle, Whitechapel, 5th March

The March edition of Bangarang! is shaping up to be quite a party. We’ll have: Equinox Fracture & Neptune Script Ricky Force J Rolla Ben Kei All playing b2b2b the finest selection of DnB and Jungle top trumps style. So join us on Friday 5th March at The Castle 44 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, London, E1

Stimpy aka X-Nation – Impossible Jungle Mix Part 2

Crazy mix from Stimpy, featuring over 100 jungle tunes looped and mashed up, this is more of a project than a mix. Huge effort gone into this. A sample tracklisting below, read full post for more. 001 – Dica And Red Ant – Rushing Crew 002 – Project One – Roughneck 003 – Venture Fm

Bargain Jungle: Total Science – Split Personality

Total Science might not be at the same standard these days, but from 1992 to the turn of the millenium they were (along with Dillinja) the most consistent and productive producers around, and they could easily turn their hand to any style. Split Personality came out on Timeless in 1996, sounding very much like Source

Unreleased Source Direct, ‘Tailor Made’ dubplate.

This is one of three dubplates I bought from Phil Aslett about 2 years ago on eBay, surprisingly they had gone unnoticed so I got them for a cheap price. Anyway, 2 of the 6 tunes on the dubplates were fully unreleased, one was a downtempo thing like Modus Operandi, and one was a jazzy

Whatever happened to Source Direct? Phil Aslett interview

Now, first of all I must make this clear, this interview is by the lovely folk at www.kmag.co.uk , check out the site, its a huge resource for contemporary drum and bass. Anyway, this is a general interview but its the first half that caught my attention, where Phil talks about his Source Direct past

Bargain Jungle: Jodeci – Feenin’ (LTJ Bukem Remix)

A beautiful little roller from Bukem here with all the classic ingredients. Hotpants break + fluttering piano + wispy vocals = speed classic. Was released en masse via MCA Records. This plus the fact that the Jodeci boys were pretty big back in the 90’s means you can pick this one up for as cheap