November Crate digging

Been a while I've written anything on this, so we'll keep it simple with a big cratedigging edition. For Black History month I picked up some bass heavy (not mid-range filth) dubstep to go along with the Jungle that I normally play. First up is a 12" on the Little Island label. Jing Bong Ting (featuring Canada's Jacky Murda, also known for his old skool ragga jungle flavas). It has the tracks Sundown, a ganja homage track and Drunken Master, with a nice propulsive beat for a dubstep track. Both have the vocals of Top Cat, whose been in the game for long any doesn't disappoint.

Next up on the dubstep is the one sided 12", a remix of Gregory Issacs' Emergency. Great echo chamber and bass heavy, though you do get the impression it's basically what happens when you get a man known for Lover's Rock on a conscious riddim. White label and no info on who remixed it.

The final dubstep track is on the Idle hands Label. No info on who built the tracks, but what is included is some class instrumentals. The Bass is great with some nice breaks for the rhythm. Well worth a listen.

Moving away from the Dubstep and back to the Jungle, this purchase was definitely a really useful one for some of my recent shows. A compilation from the mid-90s of some rare jungle even for then. There's lots of of collections and a lot usually have the same tracks, making them a bit useless. I can happily say I never heard of any of these tracks before checking this out, all are great and include VIP remixes and dubplates. Junglistic Hardcore Vol. 2, well worth the hassle.

 Back to the singles, a white label 12" by Prizna, The A side features Niggas in the Hood, heavy bass and rhythm track supported by samples from Black Americans having their say. Great track though in some ways standard fare. The B side has Eastern Promise, with the main highlight being the flute overtones to give it that eastern flare, and signal the shift in DnB that was incoming.

And finally for this edition of cratedigging, is another Junglistic 12". By Scarface on Joker Records, the A side is a sweet track, Only You, on what sounds like a early 2-step drumbeat is terms of rhythm and speed which has some soulful vocals above and a bass line that pulses to drives the track along. The B side isn't as good but Flat Eric does boast something not many old or new tracks have, that shift is speed and pace of the drym beat, it sets about different stages in the track from a chilled intro to a more standard frenzied DnB scenario.

That's all for now (but that's a lot to tack in anyway!) I'll be sure to keep on top more, with more crate diggings and musical pieces in general (there's a German/Turkish project to work on...)