Month: January 2025

Jungle is a genre of electronic music that developed out of the UK rave scene and Jamaican sound system culture in the 1990s. Emerging from breakbeat hardcore, the style is characterised by rapid breakbeats, heavily syncopated percussive loops, samples, and synthesised effects, combined with the deep basslines, melodies, and vocal samples found in dub, reggae and dancehall, as well as hip hop and funk.[1] Many producers frequently sampled the "Amen break" or other breakbeats from funk and jazz recordings.[2] Jungle was a direct precursor to the drum and bass genre which emerged in the mid-1990s.[3][4] Origins [edit] The breakbeat hardcore scene of […]

Kevin Ford (born 1968[1]), better known as DJ Hype, is a British jungle and drum and bass producer and DJ.[2] Biography [edit] Hype first became involved in music as a teenager in 1982, assisting PJ and Smiley with their sound system Heatwave in East London, which evolved into Shut Up and Dance.[1][3] Hype began producing in 1989, engineering and co-producing tracks (including "Exorcist" and "The Bee") for Kickin'Records, Strictly Underground and Suburban Base.[4] UK garage producer Wookie remembers that Hype worked with The Scientist on "The Bee" […]