Friday Night Comedy..Taking the mickey of Jungle DJs!
This literally just came through and I simply have to share it with you, it's too good to just let sit in my inbox. Recently chance and fortune brought me back in touch with an old friend, with simply the coolest name ever, Chris Champagne, a brilliant DJ and also a UI designer these days. Chris and I knew each other a loong time ago, back then also through chance and fortune as he happened to be seeing a good friend of mine. All of us in high school, hanging out, listeing to Drum & Bass when it first emerged and all of us fell in love with it since.
Drum & Bass is a funny thing, from briefly making it to the mainstream, it seems to have disappeared back underground and people like myself (mainly a consumer of it, but also a few modest contributions in the form of mixes and tunes, nowhere up to the great standard of Chris, check him out at Midnight Sun Recordings) and a thriving community of passionate bassheads are still keeping it alive. On another note, things like podcasts are spreading the word out to bigger audiences as the Hospital Records podcast on iTunes is a striking example. Actually a lot is going on these days and for people like me who would love to loiter around in record shops all day, but never have the time, it is even easier now to find great tunes and enjoy a subculture very much alive and kicking. It's a strange genre and many people try to slice and dice it in different ways to define the numerous subgenres that exist even within this category, some really dark stuff, the jungle genre, the intelligent stuff - I mean you got to laugh at some of the titles, but they are all efforts to describe a type of music, which operates to a very tight tempo of 160 - 180 bpm, so pretty fast, but after that gloves come off and you get everything from salsa and brazilian inspired drum&bass to jazzy stuff, to things that sound like industrial machinery gone wrong.
As with any proper subculture you get the lingo, the parlance so to speak and this audio snippet of stand-up comedy captures the sound of the pirate radio-stations springing up all over the UK and promoting all different forms of Drum & Bass in the late 1980s and early 1990s brilliantly... I will warn you that some of the words aren't to the liking of people with a slightly more sensitive predilection..
Enjoy!
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