vis

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.

happy 808 day! crank those beats in celebration

the beats is cranked

added drums to an older bass + chord thing i had. i really like the po-12 but it's extremely limited. it's inconvenient to generate proper sync so i just hit record and play at the same time usually at adjust for the misalignment in software. at least the metronome is accurate.

the second one is just a little chord loop that i made when i was supposed to be making some atonal sweeps for the first track. and then i put drums on it. and then i spent way too much time on a crappy guitar part :p i like the chords though i might turn it into something who knows. shout out to 3-bar phrases i like them