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Kaya Fyah: 1994 (Born In The Jungle) (digital, Supa Subs, November 2024)

The title of this record is a reference to the fact that Kaya Fyah was born in 1994, which was essentially the year that jungle emerged as a popular form. (Apparently this makes her thirty — subs please check, ‘cos that doesn’t sound right at all…) Oh, and her dad just happens to be Congo […]

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Double O: Firm Meditation (digital, Rupture LDN, June 2023)

David Double O (co-founder of and DJ at the Rupture nights at London’s treasured Corsica Rooms) recently defined jungle as “dub with breaks”. Which I found interesting, ‘cos I’d already noticed that this is exactly what it is in his hands. This record gives you 72 minutes of laid-back clattering breaks, clanking echoey dub noises, […]

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Monolake: Ghosts (CD, Imbalance, February 2012)

I loved Monolake throughout the last decade, and I was a huge fan of 2010’s Silence. Ghosts is apparently the second in a trilogy, and the continuity is clear — not least in the welcome reappearance of the spooky sleeve notes, but also in the abstracted mood, the extended beatless atmospheric interludes, the distant clanking, the […]