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OLDSCHOOL JUNGLE - The soundtrack of the metropolis

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From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldschool_jungle

Oldschool jungle, or simply jungle, is a genre of electronic music that incorporates influences from other genres, including breakbeat hardcore and reggae/dub/dancehall. It is one of several types of music often simply referred to as "jungle music". The fast tempos (150 to 170 bpm), breakbeats and other heavily syncopated percussive loops, samples and synthesized effects make up the easily recognizable form of jungle. Long pitch-shifted snare rolls are common in oldschool jungle.
Producers create the drum patterns, which are sometimes completely off-beat, by cutting apart breakbeats (most notably the Amen break). Jungle producers incorporated classic Jamaican/Caribbean sound-system culture production-methods. The slow, deep basslines and simple melodies (reminiscent of those found in dub, reggae and dancehall) accentuated the overall production, giving jungle its "rolling" quality.

The speed of the music increased from 120bpm to 150bpm, while more ragga and dancehall elements were brought in and techno, disco and house influences were decreased.
The safety of the trance-like state produced by disco and house was replaced with the edginess and danger of disruptive beats. The music became too fast and difficult to be mixed with more and traditional rave music, creating a division with the other popular electronic genres.

The term “jungle” to describe the music itself was first used by Paul Ibiza from Ibiza Records was produced “Jungle Techno” in 1991.

The maturation of Jungle coincided with an increasing ease of computer-based music production, allowing beats to be chopped, processed, and resequenced into higher and higher levels of complexity.

Jungle reached the peak of its popularity between 1994 and 1995.


INSIGHTS:
- Drum And Bass - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_drum_and_bass
- Amen Break - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
- Rave - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rave
- Ram Records - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_Records
- Andy C - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_C
- Goldie - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldie
- Fabio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_(DJ)


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