Bop is a “… green tea-drinking, banana-eating vegan with a dog named Booyaka….” Hailing from “Saint-Petersburg in Russia, Bop is a new breed of producer intent on re-writing the rulebook with an intoxicating ice-cold sound; embracing influences from deep techno and minimalist dubstep through to IDM and ambient drum & bass.”
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How to Listen to Premier DnB & Jungle Beats from Toronto: The Prophecy on CUIT 89.5 FM
This past Sunday I discovered that I can still listen to one of my favorite Toronto radio programs: The Prophecy on CUIT 89.5 FM. I listened to this show for many years from the mid-1990s until I moved to the Westcoast around 2004. CUIT 89.5 FM was one of the few Toronto [...]
Nate Harrison on the “Amen Break” – the foundation of jungle/drum&bass
About the “Amen Break” from Wikipedia:
‘The “Amen break” was a brief drum solo performed in 1969 by Gregory Sylvester “G. C.” Coleman in The Winstons’s song “Amen, Brother”.
‘The “Amen Break”, “Amen”, or imitations thereof, are frequently used as sampled drum loops in hip hop, jungle, breakcore and drum and bass music. [...] ["Amen, Brother"] is [...]
Favorite (Goa Trance Track): “Mai Mai” by Jaia (Jaïa)
“Mai Mai” by Jaia (Jaïa) from their album Blue Energy (1998; Cross Records) is another one of my favorite goa trance tracks. It’s hard to get your hands on — as far as I’m aware there’s no place where one can purchase a legal high-quality down-loadable copy of the track. Blue Energy [...]
