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Description of Jump-Up

 
In the mid-1990s, London producers hit on a magic formula for making dancefloors stomp! Beat masters such as Aphrodite and Ray Keith took the convoluted, polyrhythmic jungle beat and straightened it out to the point where it resembled sped-up hip-hop breaks. Cooking up a seemingly endless batch of rolling, hip-shaking basslines, they punctuated the tracks with anthem-like hardcore hip-hop and Ragga samples. Occasionally an MC would flow over the top of this mix. The result: jump-up, a warmer and funkier brand of jungle that took more influence from the organic sounds of hip-hop and dancehall reggae than it did from hardcore techno.
 

Jump-Up Key Tracks

 
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1. This Style Shy FX
2. Here Comes The Hotstepper (Booyaka Remix) Ini Kamoze
3. Fassyhole Roni Size and Reprazent
4. Carousel AK1200
 

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Jump-Up Key Artists

 
Andy C

Pioneer of the rolling sci-fi
sound central to drum ’n’
bass, Clarke has shaped Ram
into one of the scene’s
leading labels.

Aphrodite

Aphrodite gained fame
transplanting catchy ragga
stylings into the
stripped-down Jump-Up of
1995 dancefloors. Aphrod...

Jonny L

British Drum & Bass bedrock
who spices his breakbeats
with the stark machine
paranoia of Hardcore Rave
and Techno.

Remarc

Original darkside Drum & Bass
producer Marc Forrester,
pushing a hard,
claustrophobic, fractured
breakbeat sound.

Roni Size and Reprazent

With "New Forms" (1997),
Reprazent defined the state
of Drum 'n' Bass, weaving
jazzy riffs around dynamic
breaks. This drum 'n' bass...

Shy FX

With their tough soulful
style, Shy FX and T-Power
serve up funky drum ’n’
bass that straddles the
commercial and undergro...

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