Yoof"s September Chuuune review

This month im only going to review one artist just purely because of who it is, how bloody good the tune is and how important role this artist has played when it comes to british underground dance music.

Back in the early 90's when Hardcore rave music ruled the country another sound started to mutate out of it from the ghetto's of London such as hackney, This sound had started to move away from the Happy techno sound but more towards the reggae/dancehall sound's of reggae... classic reggae basslines where being re worked, made bigger and more bashy, the beats got more sophisticated, vocal sample's from such great Dancehall dj's such as Ninjaman, Bounty killer, Beenie man, Cutty ranks etc where being sampled and re cut up..... Jungle music was born!

We have to go back to when the first wave of Jamaican people came to England bringing there sound of Reggae/Loversrock/Ska/Soul.
You coudnt hear this music on the radio and to be honest its very hard to here reggae on todays mainstream radio but thats another discussion in itself... so the people would build speaker boxes (sound systems) and throw underground parties which eventually through the years intergrated into british culture.

Without Reggae music and sound system culture you would not have dance music period!

Fast forward to around 1991 -92 and tunes like "Who's the badman" by dee patern, "28 gunman salute" by Guy called gerald and of course the godfathers of the scene Shut up and dance could be heard at every single rave.

While this was happening a very young Shy fx who started out as the teaboy/tape operator at SOUR records was messing about with beats and submitting them to the label without much success until he dropped a tune called "Gunsmoke" and then of course "Original nutter" which instead of sampling a well known dancehall artists he looked more closer to home and drafted in U.K. Apache on vocal duties and which to this day "original Nutter" can still be heard today.

Through the years Shy fx has lead the way, always setting the trend and never following!
He has made so many big big tunes that its hard to keep up with his output, his label Digital soundbwoy is probably my fav label at the moment just because of the diversity and quality of music he put's out!

So when Shy Fx starts making 140 Jungle breakbeats then you know things are big and boy has Shy hit the nail on the head with his new single due out this month on Ministry of sound called "Light up the world" feat vocal talents of Yasmin.

Tune starts with the classic film sample from the Harder they come and then bang a mixture of oldskool jungle beats, nuskool production, reggae basslines, soundclash samples and fx floods your head making any true Junglist feel like they have gone back to the golden age of clubs like AWOL, ROAST, JUNGLE FEVER etc

Yasmin's sweet vocals rides the tune in almost a Lovers rock style and complemented with the classic dancehall sample "Lighter!".
This tune will appeal to anyone and should be in every Dj's Box as like i said before when Shy fx is making this style then people need to wake up including Promoters, Dj's, label's.

This is what Jungle breaks is about, no disrespect to anyone but to be honest im hearing too many artists say they make Jungle breaks or Future Jungle (by the way that name sucks) and all they are making is not very good tearout which was done way back 2003 with labels like Mechanoise... So like i said when i heard "Light up the world" it restored my faith that the Jungle sound is here to stay and will make a big comeback in a different style.

"LIGHTER!!!"