Scorpio – Mellow Song

Scorpio – Mellow Song (Full Cycle Records, 1996) I dropped a little breadcrumb to today’s post in my previous breakdown of Photek’s ‘Rings Around Saturn’. I mentioned Dr Who Dat?’s Beat Journey LP, which includes a track that uses the same Pharoah Sanders sample as Rupert Parkes’ masterpiece. Produced by Jneiro Jarel, who would laterContinue reading “Scorpio – Mellow Song”

Bill Riley – In At The Deep End

Bill Riley – In At The Deep End (Protocol, 1996) I realised earlier this month that it was ten years since I started this blog and I thought this milestone was worth marking with a new post. The original idea behind DnB 365 was to write about a different track every day throughout 2013, soContinue reading “Bill Riley – In At The Deep End”

DnB 365’s Ultimate Old Skool Spotify Playlist

In these dark times one of the things that’ll help get us through is music. Over the past six months I’ve been putting together a Spotify playlist of DnB and Jungle from the 90s to the mid-2000s. It started off as a few hundred tracks but has gradually ballooned to a whopping 2750 at theContinue reading “DnB 365’s Ultimate Old Skool Spotify Playlist”

DJ Hype – Closer To God

DJ Hype – Closer To God (True Playaz, 1998) After yesterday’s post about ‘Straight Jacket’ I couldn’t resist writing about DJ Hype’s ‘Closer To God’, another track featuring a vocal sample also used by DJ Shadow. It was the opening track on Real Vibes, the first album from the True Playaz label formed two yearsContinue reading “DJ Hype – Closer To God”

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