My Favourite Jungle CD's

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Smokey Joe - Smokey Joe Incorporated

This is a really interesting album. There is a variety of up beat, jump up Jungle tunes mixed with some of the darkest jungle tunes as well.

This CD is partially mixed, the endings of the tunes fade nicely into the next, and I think this is a nice touch, I feel like it keeps the energy of the tunes.

My favourite tunes on this CD are "Run Dem", "Dirty Face", and "Shining 98".

"Run Dem" is an evil tune, the bassline is DARK it just makes you pull a screw face.

I can only imagine "Dirty Face" is named after the face you pull when you listen to it. Again like "Run Dem" the bassline is evil and DARK with some heavy drums in there too.

"Shining 98" is a more upbeat tune but it is still great as it is a really high energy tune with some wobbly bass.

Renegade Hardware - Renegade Soundscapes Volume 1

I didnt really know whether to put this in the Drum & Bass list or the Jungle list. But it is going in the Jungle list because of two tunes by Future Engineers.

This CD contains a variety of different styles of Drum & Bass and Jungle with some tunes like "Code" being dark Drum & Bass tunes and tunes like "The Silence" being very etherial, atmospheric Jungle.

My favourite tunes on this CD are:

Metalheadz - Platinum Breakz 1

The Platinum Breakz series is a staple in Jungle music, with some of the most interesting tunes on them.

This album contains loads of Jungle tunes with that distinct Metalheadz sound to them. Some tunes are heavy jump up tunes and others have that more etherial sound to them.

My favourite tunes on this album are:

Metalheadz - Metal Box Set

This CD features a variety of different tunes on it, most of them with a dark tone to them, which I like.

Some of the tunes are fairly fast, up beat Jungle tunes others are slow and dark and some (Optical - To Shape The Future Remix) are hard Drum & bass tunes.

There are also tunes on this CD which I wouldnt call either Jungle or Drum & Bass. According to Discogs there is also Downtempo and Dub tunes , I am not the most clued up on these genres but I would have to geuss a tune like "Westway" by Ed Rush would come under Downtempo.

Originally when I got this CD I wasnt a massive fan of it, I think at the time I was looking for more of Moving Shadow 01.1 style of tune and although I liked this CD it wasnt my favourite. I think I bought the CD because "To Shape The Future Remix" was on it, this is one of my favourite Drum & Bass tunes, so I thought the whole CD would be of this style.

As time has gone on it has grown on me a lot more and I have come to like the slower, darker tunes on it. And now I would say it is one of my favourite CD's that I own.

This CD seems to be fairly rare and expensive too now, every listing I see is £20+ and they dont come up too often on Ebay. The vinyl version is even more expensive with a complete set with the metal tin going for £50+ from what I have seen.

A reason that the vinyl version might be more expensive other than it being vinyl + old + a lot of vinyl + great tunes is that they were originally shipped in PVC sleeves which kill the records over time.

My favourite tunes from this CD are: