There's a lot of stuff like this around lately. Montana calls it 'revival' but where i've been listening to it calls it J-Tek. it's like old jungle stuff, slower than what you really know. Thoughts on this though? I think it's pretty good but i've only listened to it a couple of times.

Nice track. Are there more stuff like this on his latest album?

It's a "revival" in the sense that it picks up the "jungle techno"-template where guys like Top Buzz left off in the early 90s.

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...&highlight=jtek

This doesn't quite have the oomph that Digital and Outrage's tunes had when this trend first (re)started, unfortunately. It's also unfortunate that the rest of Skream's album, from what I can hear, is yet another step towards mainstream money, with simplistic melodies and pop vocals all over the place.

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the amen break (and every other well-known break) is dead as a dance music staple to begin with, and any track leaving it that unchopped immediately renders itself irrelevant.

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Bleh, can't say I'm too impressed. Like ory said, the Amen Break at this point is a yawny at this point if it's as literal an interpretation as that.

Seems I'm not missing all that much by not listening to the dubsteppers these days as they try to branch out.

Decent cheese synths but other than that mmmeh

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Originally posted by Sand Leaper It's a "revival" in the sense that it picks up the "jungle techno"-template where guys like Top Buzz left off in the early 90s. http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...&highlight=jtek This doesn't quite have the oomph that Digital and Outrage's tunes had when this trend first (re)started, unfortunately. It's also unfortunate that the rest of Skream's album, from what I can hear, is yet another step towards mainstream money, with simplistic melodies and pop vocals all over the place.

The tune with dbridge & instra:mental is nice, however I don't hear anything that couldn't have been added by those guys anyway, it's just like another of their tunes.

I do agree with the amen needing a lot of work, but it's a fun track for a while.

Jan, I saw a new release from Pilgrim, that name took me wayyyyyyy back, and apparently Randall is supporting the style too. We'll see in time if it becomes anything more than just a few tunes but it is nice to hear stuff like this.

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Originally posted by Ian Jan, I saw a new release from Pilgrim, that name took me wayyyyyyy back, and apparently Randall is supporting the style too. We'll see in time if it becomes anything more than just a few tunes but it is nice to hear stuff like this.

That's cos Randall is one of the four guys (Outrage, Modular and Digital are the other three) who kicked off this whole revival to begin with by starting J-Tek Recs: http://j-tekrecords.ning.com/

It seems to be another small London-centric niche thing at the moment, but it's good to see it revived, as it wasn't really explored all that much when it first popped up in the breakbeat hardcore days.

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Originally posted by Sand Leaper That's cos Randall is one of the four guys (Outrage, Modular and Digital are the other three) who kicked off this whole revival to begin with by starting J-Tek Recs: http://j-tekrecords.ning.com/ It seems to be another small London-centric niche thing at the moment, but it's good to see it revived, as it wasn't really explored all that much when it first popped up in the breakbeat hardcore days.

Aye. it's fun even if it doesn't last for a long time, it reminds me of some of the very early stuff I encountered.

pretty cool track.

nice trek ya know....thank you...I just know that this genre exist. it doesn't sound strange thoo

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