this shit has really been burning me out on jungle lately. i will love it forever but seeing it coopted into this bullshit has been so depressing. seeing this shit get turned into buzzwords by people like me like... jungle is one of the most revolutionary art forms in music history.
if youve never engaged with the first wave of jungle i encourage you too, this documentary is a good place to start:
you should also know there is huge revival scene bringing back the og sounds. people and labels like Tim Reaper/futureRETRO, Green Bay Wax, Scientific Wax, Deep Jungle, Infrared (to name a few among many many others) have been holding it down for years now. i may be like autistic but searching this shit out is not hard. jungle old and new deserves your respect. and it makes me mad that i have to tell you all this. it is much more than "peshay studio set 1996" and far far more than any number of youtube ps1 jungle compilations. that music is good and great but treating it as the be-all-end-all turns this art form into a meme. and it deserves far more than that.
if you don't know what Jordana did for jungle, or the price she paid for being Black and trans in the 90s, i got some history for you! (there's even an easter egg about this track in there~)
she's rejoined the seattle scene in the past few years and that alone brings me so much joy i cannot express it.
Tee Vera
DJ Asexual
(she primarily makes techno music but more recently has been venturing into Jungle ("part-time junglist," in their own words))
andrea_andrea
Qube Honey
Jungle and by extension Drum n Bass would not be what is without its black and queer artists like Jordana. The scene is alive and thriving and I hope more ppl can get acquainted with what the scene has evolved into~
