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The Jungle Runner
Chopped breaks at 170, bass you feel in your knees, and no time to think.
Designed rarity: about 6% of takers
You want the drums. Jungle came out of the British rave scene in the early nineties, when producers chopped up old funk breakbeats, most famously the Amen break from a 1969 record by the Winstons, and ran them over bass lines borrowed from reggae sound systems. Goldie's Inner City Life proved in 1994 that it could carry a song. You land here because you are happy to improvise, you want speed with intelligence behind it, and you trust drums more than melodies.
You tend to treat the early part of a night as the warm up and save your energy for the moment the breaks arrive. Once they do, you are locked in, reading every edit and switch faster than most people can count. You like a DJ who takes risks, a crowd that can keep up, and a sound system that lets you feel the bass line in your knees.
Your strength
You keep up with records that most people are still trying to count.
Your blind spot
A house night can read as a warm up to you, so you sometimes miss good music.
Key takeaways
- Your sound is jungle and drum and bass, built on chopped breakbeats.
- You trust drums more than melodies.
- Speed was never the whole point, and liquid funk proves it.
Genres to start with
Records to start with
In Seoul
Drum and bass in Seoul is run by a handful of dedicated crews, usually as monthly nights in small rooms in Hongdae and Itaewon where the same faces come back every time.
Your first night
Find the next drum and bass night from one of the local crews, get there before the headliner, and stand close enough to the speakers to feel the bass line.
Rooms to try in Seoul
- Cakeshop, Itaewon: One of the longest running underground clubs in Itaewon hosts Darklight Drum and Bass, where legends like Dillinja bring breaks you feel in your knees.
- Pistil, Itaewon: Pistil is where the Jungle Hongdae crew marked seven years and where Concrete Jungle now runs, so you get chopped breaks in a tight Itaewon room.
Rooms to try around the world
- Elsewhere, New York City: This Bushwick warehouse has several rooms, so on nights like Cosmic Jungle you can chase 170 breaks from one floor to the next until close.
- fabric, London: FABRICLIVE has been a home for drum and bass for over two decades, and nights with Critical Sound and Hospital still shake the famous vibrating floor.
- Circus Tokyo, Tokyo: This bass focused Shibuya club books jungle and drum and bass, from Metalheadz names to local crews, on a sound system made for rolling low end.
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