State of Bass: The Origins of Jungle/Drum & Bass PDF
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STATE OF BASS STATE OF BASS THE ORIGINS OF JUNGLE/DRUM & BASS MARTIN JAMES First published by Velocity Press 2020 velocitypress.uk Copyright © Martin James 2020 Cover design: Designment designment.studio Typesetting: Paul Baillie-Lane pblpublishing.co.uk Photography: Cleveland Aaron, Andy Cotterill, Courtney Hamilton, Tristan O’Neill Martin James has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission from the publisher While the publishers have made every reasonable effort to trace the copyright owners for some of the photographs in this book, there may be omissions of credits, for which we apologise. ISBN: 9781913231026 Contents Foreword by a guy called gerald ix Introduction Here Comes the Drumz 1 1. All’a The Junglists Naming The Sound, Locating The Scene 15 2. Shut Up And Dance From Sleng Teng To Bleep: Creating The Space For Jungle 25 3. Valley Of The Shadows The Media Blackout And The Rise Of Dark 45 4. Armed And Dangerous Ragga Jungle Takes Control 67 5. Above The Law The Business, The Committee and The Technology Of Total Control 89 6. Shadow Boxing The Jungle/Drum & Bass Split 99 7. Intelligent Minds Of Jungle The Rise Of Ambient Drum & Bass and the jazz discovery 121 8. Feel The Sunshine Taking On The Mainstream 137 9. Mutant Revisited Return To The Darkside 159 10. The World Is A Ghetto Celebrity, The International Growth Of Drum & Bass and The Jump-Up Reaction 173 11. Reprazent To Saturnz Return Awards, Plaudits And The Album Dilemma 197 12. Brand Nu Funk The Breakbeat Continuum 215 sources 219 To my family for their unending support and continued inspiration. Lisa, Ruby Blue, Felix Drum and Bella Pearl, love you all the world x To Vini and Kemistry for their generous, passionate and committed support for this book. Never forgotten. RIP. we have reached what could be the final stage in musical change this century but it is still in its early days this music takes on many forms breaks through many boundaries I hear it in everything but what does this mean to the rest of the all seeing non listening world fuck all but even this has a positive role to play for the mass ignorance of joe public reflects the brainwashing society we have come to call modern life in fact if an individual seeks enlightenment he or she is often classed as a nutter space baby freak weirdo by the mass body of brainless sheep these patterns echo through the behaviour of all of our so-called civil societies put all this aside there’s one way of communicating of breaking through prejudice … MUSIC GCG (A Guy Called Gerald)
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