‘Back to the new skool, forward to your roots’
Now is the time to return to jungle. But is it even a return?
I remember when I first heard dubstep and I immediately related it to mid 90’s drum and bass. Not so much in the overall sound, more in the feeling or atmosphere the music created. Hearing a set where dubstep merges into jungle breaks seemed to make sense. One could clearly experience the influence of jungle as a fundamental road to dubstep days.
To me the music at remarc recontextualized jungle….. although harking back to scatty amen breaks, jungilism days of old were nostalgically revisited but something had changed. No longer was I in a camo-netted Dunedin bassment on a Thursday night with subs that made my liver reverberate, listening to DJ Moe…. I was experiencing high production quality, tweeters that could make your ears bleed and digital sound boys dropping music that was just a twinkle in the eye of daddy dubsteppers back in da 90’s.
Remarc played a diverse but consistent set. The beats sounded fresh. Super sharp shooter had become double deck dropper… the R the E the M the A…. anyway you get the picture- Old but new.
As for MC’s…. (a pet hate of mine) Splash put on a good front. He wasn’t obnoxious, knew when to stop, and busted out some pretty sweet calls… he even shared the mic, asking Detail what was up….. “I like this one”…..
