What labels were Jungle's equivalent of DMZ, etc..

[NickUndercover]

GLR were never mainstream front runners. They were always slightly obscure.

Yeah I guess it depends. Everyone I know who has been involved in dnb/jungle have Horizons/Music and worship it as some kind of artefact though, I imagine if you're into something relatively underground like jungle/dnb in the 90s you must have heard of Good Looking. it comes up in the research process, just like Southside Dubstars comes up when you're looking up "underground" dubstep

[herbs]

i have this


I'd say Reinforced or Moving Shadow.

Actually, I suppose you could compare Tom & Jerry to DMZ, and Reinforced to Deep Medi.

[slothrop]

LOL I certainly do hope DMZ doesn't turn out like Ram in 10 years. (Also I will never understand how you can consider The Screamer as anything remotely close to jungle but we've already had that debate haven't we...)

I'd consider late nineties Ram stuff to be comparable to something like Kryptic Minds / LHF / some of the dungeon stuff - comparatively late in the game[1], coming in after quite a lot of diversification and factionalisation, not stoopid tearout clownstep but not weirdy beardy either.

Also definitely not what anyone I knew at the time would have thought of as "jungle", but hey that's language for you.

[1] in some senses, anyway

[BonerJams04]

Some Gems inn this thread

[Amber Trichome]

word, thanks for all the input folks.

i remember mala spinning some tom & jer on that red bull academy session.

gonna be occupied for some time now

[grimesceneinvestigation]

don't forget Basement/Wax Doctor/Face records/Brain/Formation/V recordings/Full Cycle/Rugged Vinyl/White House/Kikman/Photek/...


plus, be carefull, when it comes to jungle, it's not "just" about the big labels, times were different and you have a lot more obscure/one-off release/small independent labels that formed the music as much.
















and so on

don't forget to check out golden era jungle, downloadable mixtapes aswell as magazine scans and more will give you an idea of music to check

[murky21]

big tunes in here. Hard to compare though as Jungle even the more obscure stuff was pressed up so much more than the comparatively small runs of 05/06 DMZ records. Its very easy to get hold of a lot of sick jungle on wax