When Law first approached me to do a mix for the Drumtrip Sessions, I knew that it would have to be a themed mix & not a theme that’s been widely done. I had a few potential ideas for themes, including a mix of D&B tunes on non D&B labels/compilations (Trace – The Beacon, Dillinja – In The Mood etc), a mix based around the various musicians and producers from other scenes who have had a brief flirtation with D&B (David Bowie – Little Wonder, Todd Terry – Blackout) but after giving it a lot of thought I decided that the best theme to go with in the end would be a mix of some lesser known D&B remixes commissioned by various labels for non D&B artists.

Around the 95-98 era, when Jungle was starting to fade away and was slowly evolving into D&B, it caused a lot of ears to prick up with interest. Artists like Goldie, Photek, 4hero, Grooverider, Peshay, Source Direct, Roni Size, Wax Doctor and many more were all putting out full albums on major labels and D&B was seen as the freshest, most exciting thing around and everybody wanted a piece of the action. Back when CD/12” singles were still selling healthy amounts you’d usually buy a tune and get the radio edit and a longer club mix as well as maybe a remixes of the original track as extras.

As soon as D&B began to get noticed, labels would hit up the bigger artists of the time for remixes to go on these singles, both to cash in on the then-current D&B hype as well as to market the original artist to a new audience. It would soon be pretty normal to go down to the record shop, browse through the CDs in the Pop/Rock/Electronic sections and see artists like Optical, Roni Size, Alex Reece, Boymerang and Krust doing remixes for a surprising wide range of artists from different scenes. Often the pairings that you never dreamed could work well (Krust remixing Korn, The Ganja Kru remixing Natalie Imbruglia) were where you’d get some of the interesting results.

I’ve become an avid CD collector over the past year or two, browsing Discogs hunting for obscure tracks that not too many heads might have heard before, and now that I’m starting to run out of official compilations and artist albums to buy, I’ve started to make a move to buying up remix albums and CD singles which have D&B remixes on them. Many of these are available at absolute bargain prices; very few of them turn up in mixes or tracklistings elsewhere and some of them are pretty bloody obscure. It took me a long while to gather up enough material for this mix, so I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed compiling it.

(PS – Thanks to Executive Steve for the editing!)
(PPS – Apologies for bad mixing at times, think it was about 2am when I done this mix.)

Kenny Larkin – Loop 2 (Alex Reece Remix) [R & S]
David Holmes – Gone (PFM Remix) [Go! Discs]
Friends From Rio – Maracatudo (Wax Doctor Remix) [Far Out]
Espiritu – Baby I Wanna Live (DJ Pulse Mix) [Heavenly]
Project 23 – Pleasure & The Pain (Peshay Remix) [Dorado]
Peter Andre – Flava (Jungle Mix) [Mushroom]
Palm Skin Productions – Evolution Of The Beast (Part 1) [Mo Wax]
Flora Purim – What You See (Ghost Of Flora’s Dream) [B&W Music]
Grace – If I Could Fly (LTJ Bukem’s Roll It Mix) [Perfecto]
Hunch – Visible From Space (Aquasky Mix) [Clean Up]
Blue Amazon – And The The Rain Falls (Blame Remix) [Jackpot]
The Art Of Noise – Camilla The Old Old Story (J Majik Remix) [China]
Max Reich & Johannes Foufas – Alchemy (Seba Remix) [SVEK]
Q-Tex – Do You Want Me (Funky Technicians Remix) [23rd Precinct]
Deepika – History (Crystl Clear) [RCA]
Ken Ishii – Overlap (Lemon D Remix) [R & S]
Garbage – Milk (Goldie’s VIP Trash Your Sh*t Mix) [Mushroom]
N.G.O. – Windermere (Dillinja Roll Out Mix) [JVC]
Empirion – B.E.T.A. (Doc Scott Remix) [XL]
?? – Shinobi X (Remarc & Lewi Cifer Remix) [Breakdown]
Sugizo – Michael In The Cage (Source Direct Remix) [Invader]
Wink – Simple Man (ft. The Interpreters) (Optical Remix) [Sony Soho Square]
Project 23 – Sugarize ‘Lost Inna Dream’ (Boymerang Remix) [Dorado]
David Bowie – I’m Afraid Of Americans (V5) [Virgin]
Dub War – Million Dollar Love (DJ Rap Remix) [Earache]
Turntable Terranova – Precipice (DJ Krust Remix) [Hypnotic]

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This is a mix I did yesterday – March 18th. Deep darkside jungle. Every track played is the original vinyl or dubplate, except for the track marked * – which was given to me by the producer as a .wav. I don’t cut dubplates anymore so I played it off CDJ. Mixed on three Technics 1200s, a Pioneer CDJ-800 and a Rane Empath mixer.

Intense – Journey to the Unknown – Rugged Vinyl
Imposter & Lewi – The Shining – II Strong
DJ Ruffkut – Dub White – No U Turn
DJ D-Lux – Iron Plate – Brain Progression
DJ Ruffkut – Dangerous – No U Turn
Commando Alan Jamming Nam & Lieutenant A. J. Cracker – Bat 21 – Untold
Digital Pressure – Strictly Drug-Related – Juice Box
The Man With No Name – Painted Man – Hard Disk
Spinback & Windmill – Divine Inspiration – Legend
Wriggler Bascombe – Final Battle – One Nation
DJ D-Lux – Annihilation – Brain Progression
DJ Mayhem – Let Me Tell You Something – Face
Remarc – Mayhem – Dollar
Jim Polo & Neil Vass – Underground Feeling – Dark Horse
Wax Doctor & Jack Smooth – Unfriendly – Basement
Steve C & Monita – Smart Kid – Skeleton
Whitehouse Crew – Where the Sun Don’t Shine – Subliminal
Tango – Future Followers VIP – dubplate
Dillinja – Majestic B-Line EP – track A1 – Deadly Vinyl
Bay B Kane – Wickedest Man *
Area 39 – Clint – Vision
Intense – The Genesis Project – Rugged Vinyl

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My point is, our James knows a bit about Jungle so you best listen to this superb mix entitled The Darker Mix.
Cramming 31 tunes in 80 minutes it pretty much shows you the best that Darkcore had to offer.

01: t. power & the sandman – oedipus complex (bonus beats) [soapbar]
02: s.m.f. – aardvark [rugged vinyl]
03: hannibal lector – suicide [asylum]
04: doctor g – the beeline [g-spot]
05: bizzy b – brainstorm [brain]
06: kev bird & the wax doctor – airspace [basement]
07: reel II reel – private & confidential (B1) [reel 2 reel]
08: megadrive – mega 1 (B) [f project]
09: dj spice – brand new (stressed out mix) [soapbar]
10: nick power & dj ku – mus’ get dark [ruff tuff & wicked stuff]
11: structural damage – really livin [symphony sounds]
12: tom & jerry – we can be free [tom & jerry]
13: a guy called gerald – darker than I should be [juice box]
14: specky ranx & navigator – wild & free [x amount]
15: cool hand flex – your risk [de underground]
16: foul-play – feel the vibe [oblivion]
17: nebula II – peace maker [reinforced]
18: johnny jungle – I like to cry [face]
19: bad influence – such a feeling [bad influnce]
20: the good, 2 bad & hugly – know how to rock [ruff kut!]
21: the impact crew – feels good [u no dat]
22: sublove – drum + bass programme [earth]
23: metal heads – knowledge [synthetic hardcore phonography]
24: bay-b-kane – hello darkness [ruff guidance]
25: s.l.m. – the horror [tone def]
26: the good, 2 bad & hugly – got to release [ruff kut!]
27: dj clarkee – have a good time [red zone]
28: biology productions – stop cry [biology]
29: sound corp – security overload [tone def]
30: body snatch – esoterics (dark mix) [big city]
31: acen – obsessed [production house]

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1 – Subnation – Scottie – Future Vinyl 003 (1993)
2 – Doc Scott – Drumz VIP – Metalheadz (1996)
3 – DJ Crystl – Let It Roll – Deejay Recording (1994)
4 – DJ Peshay – Gangster – Protégé EP – Reinforced Records (1993)
5 – Cloud 9 – Unknown – Unknown
6 – Ray Keith – Dubplate Terrorist Rmx (1994)
7 – Rufige Kru – Knowledge – Synthetic (1992)
8 – DJ Trace – Lost Entity, London Mix – Luckyspin Recordings (1993)
9 – Jim Polo + Neil Vass – Underground Feeling – Dark Horse (1993)
10 – Anthill Mob – Antology – Top Buzz Stonehenge rmx – Anthill Records (1993)
11 – Boogie Times Tribe – Dark Stranger – Suburban Base Records (1993)
12 – 4 Hero – Journey From The Light – Reinforced Records (1993)
13 – Tek 9 – Just A Dream – Reinforced Records (1992)
14 – DJ Mayhem – Inesse – Ray Keith Mix – Face Record (1994)
15 – Rufige Kru – Rollin Like Scotty – Enforcers Vol.3 (1993)
16 – Tom and Jerry – Papillon Love Song – Tom And Jerry (1993)
17 – Tom And Jerry – Let Your Spirit Rise – To and Jerry (1993)
18 – Internal Affairs – Stylin – Enforcers Vol.2 (1993)
19 – DJ Randall – The “R” – Enforcers Vol.2 (1993)
20 – F Project – Side A
21 – Jonny Jungle – Flammable – Suburban Base (1993)
22 – Agent Orange – Technoska – ?
23 – Wax Doctor + Jack smooth – Unfriendly – Wax Doctor Vol.4 – Bassment (1994)
24 – DJ Hype – Weird Energy – Suburban Base (1994)
25 – Fallen Angles – Hello Lover – DJ Hype Remix – IQ Records (1994)
26 – Firefox + 4Tree – Warning – Philly Blunt Records (1994)
27 – Tic Tac Toe – Ephemerol – Mickey finn Remix – Tic Tac Toe (1992)
28 – Wax Doctor + Kev Bird – Dark Matter Rmx – Bassment Records (1993)
29 – Studio 2 – dirty Games – ??? (1993)
30 – Frequency – Kiss The Sky (1991)

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Hello People,
Yesterday i was on the phone with Mr. LTJ Bukem and we start talking about Wax Doctor and some old skool jungle tunes.
Once Again,i decide to make another mix with a few of my favourites jungle/d&b tracks: Source Direct,Pariah,Voyager,Carlito,Essence of Aura,Omni Trio (My Favourite),JMJ & Richie’s Free La Funk (Mike’s PFM Remix-What A Tune,dammit!) and of course: The Wax Doctor!
So,Enjoy the mix!
Big Love.
DJ Marky

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This one is a fine example, two jazzy numbers, and best of all available on Discogs for as low as £2.00
Listen to ‘Heat’ below (R&S Records).

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