New Drum'n'Bass Arena triple CD comp mixed by Randall - meant to be a comprehensive history of d'n'b, but is it really?

track listing is ok, on first glance, but Randall is as good a pick as any to do this

Tut tut, no Blame - "Music Takes You"? Tut tut indeed.

Your thoughts, then, on what is basically a pretty splendid mix by the looks of things...

it looks good. i guess it's time to accept that dnb has been in its "bad" late period longer than its "good" early period at this point, so gripes about tilting it towards 97 and on are kinda baseless.

yea but music takes you isnt a jungle track, its hardcore (which is why some justice shouldnt be on here either, unless its the 95 re-lick). if its going to be a jungle comp, needs to stick to jungle

its missing ma2, hearing is believing and djss united, and maybe euphony, but, this looks pretty good, it spans a good time period, i'd get it

i'd lose the bristol shit though, bristol always overrated, 2nd city of jungle shit, if you're going to go down that route, then ss/formation makes it leicester.

cant go wrong with randall though, if i had to pick someone to do this, it might well be him

i want cd2 and yeah, there are a lot of obvious complaints one could lob at this, but it looks pretty solid to me...except that there's not a single digital track. i wonder how many times those bukem tracks have been licensed for comps.

no photek either

i think it looks pretty good tho it's weird to have things like 'Shake Ur Body' mixing on same disc as 'Helicopter Tune' - not worth trying to compress a ten year movement like that really. Photek was never actually that popular on the dancefloors iirc - maybe 'UFO' was his biggest tune? great breaks but more cerebral than for 'rinsing' purposes. Digital's only really great tune is 'SPace Funk' but fuck me it's better than ANYTHING ELSE on that tracklist.

yeah, spacefunk is a heavy tune, but when i was raving to that, photek would be dropped all the time, 'one nation', 'water margin', 'resolution', and they'd tear up the dancefloor the same way spacefunk did. luv the kick-kick-kick-kick snare-snare-snare-snare on spacefunk, that always used to get the crowd hyper.

i think the comp looks ok, i'm curious about how it's all gonna hang together, i'll probably listen to it somewhere just to hear how creaky the joins are.

this isn't miles from the (smaller) Muzik magazine d&b comp that came out in about 1998...

No 4 Hero, Leviticus or Boogie Times Tribe, then.

And if someone is going to do a "definitive" d&b compilation, can we please have an UNMIXED one? I mean you don't get the Amboy Dukes floating into Count Five on Nuggets, do you?

shame there was no Krust Soul In Motion or Photek on there... those are seminal sounds.

or the Trace mix of T:Power's Mutant Jazz...

i guess these kinda comps are inevitably going to miss some gems/landmarks.

the dillinja test tracks are seminal, too. the first one in particular blew my head off.

re photek: the bleeps tune!!

I was going to start a new thread for this but I thought I'd hijack/merge this one -

Just got this CD via eBay, I used to own it on tape from when it came out but lost it years ago. The massive nostalgia rush I'm getting off it completely obscures any judgement for me so over to you -

ROUTES FROM THE JUNGLE, 2CD Comp, 1995

Disc One

Lennie De Ice - "We Are E"
Nicolette - "Waking Up (Remix)"
Manix - "You Held My Hand"
Foul Play - "Open Your Mind (Remix)"
Doc Scott - "Last Action Hero"
DJ Ed Rush - "Bludclot Artattack"
Body Snatch - "Secret Summer Fantasy"
Boogie Times Tribe - "Dark Stranger"
A Guy Called Gerald - "Nazinji Zaka"
Roni Size - "Music Box (Remix)"

Disc Two

Dillinja - "Deeper Love (Remix)"
Jo - "Apollo 9"
E-Z Rollers - "Believe"
Flynn And Flora - "Flowers"
Randall And Andy C - "Feel It"
4 Hero - "Wrinkles In Time"
Dropping Science - "Dropping Science Vol 2"
DJ Krust - "Asian Love Dance (Remix)"

If memory serves this comp was one of the first 'rough guide' style, history-of-the-hardcore-continuum comps. How does it stand up now?

pretty damn well i'd say - tho i haven't heard ANY of the tracks on disc 2 myself.

The Jo one is on YOUR SERVER Steve!

Disc 1 sounds just as great as it did in March 1995 - probably greater actually cos there isn't that impatient ok ok get to the NEW STUFF feeling, Disc 2 was the 'new stuff' at the time, well the newer stuff anyway, I'm not sure how good it will sound.

yeah, i was going to make the point that the "drum and bass arena" CDs appear to miss out the proto/early jungle type tunes covered by "routes..." (a veritable classic - and I think I prefer disc 2, tom)

Major ommissions for me are Source Direct, Digital and/or Spirit, and Photek.
Also why are there two shy fx and tpower tracks on there, considering there's only one ed and op track and its a bit crap?