This is an ode to the ever present Amen break. Starting with Baobinga’s native breaks genre it works its way up to drum and bass, both new and old, ending with, IMO, the best drum and bass tune of the decade, Danny Byrd - Shock Out. It also has Krust - Cloaking Device which made me larph. I hadn’t heard that on in eons. Here’s what he said about it:
“So I played before Potential Bad Boy on NYE in Milan this year, and the promoter asked me if I could link things into his set a bit. I didn’t want to play a load of new DnB and take any shine off him, so I put together a bit of a classics set. Which then got me thinking about how many of them were based around the Amen break, which got me thinking about how much I love the Amen break… and hence the following mix
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TRACKLIST:=======
01. Skream & Cluekid - Sandsnake - Disfigured Dubs
Not a huge amount of Amen’s in dubstep, but this one is badman tings…
02. Baobinga & I.D. - Extravaganza Man - Pure Filth
…and double drops with this surprisingly well! We’d been chatting with Ollywood about how great Bonanza Kid is, and he challenged us to do our take on it. It then developed into a tribute to our favourite jungle tunes - count the basslines, basically!
03. Backdraft - Time To React - Downbeat Productions
The best Amens in breakbeat. Forgot how utterly heavy this is.
04. Baobinga - The Session - Fusetrax
The first tune I did that got any attention really. Spoke to Kalbata recently and he told me he used to cane this tune, which was nice to know
05. Remarc & Simpleton - Unity (Re-Mix) - Kemet / Planet Mu
All of Remarc’s stuff is doubly impressive when you think about what he most likely made it on…
06. Remarc - RIP - Suburban Base
Nothing to be said.
07. Ray Keith - Jah Dread - Dread
The most brutal Amens ever. I played before Ray Keith ages ago and brutal (in a good way) would describe his set. Glad I had ear plugs though.
08. Breakage - Stagger Dub - Critical
Biggups to Jim from Eastern Bloc for pulling this out for me about 5 visits in a row until I recognised its greatness.
09. Digital - Waterhouse Dubs - Function
First time I heard that riff it absolutely blew me away. Still does really. Great sub.
10. Krust - Kloakin Device - Full Cycle
Can we have this Krust back please?
11. Zinc & Eksman - Roll Slow - Bingo
Pretty simple Amen business but it rolls so nice. I saw an interview with Zinc where he said he was in the studio one day, called up Eksman who happened to be in the area, he came to the studio and put this down and before they knew it, it was a massive tune. Wish my tunes came together so easily.
12. Cool Hand Flex - Must Feel (Serum RMX) - Mac II
Strictly jungle, but fully modern.
13. Q Project - Credit Crunch - Hospital
Massive Q Project fan. Much harder than his usual stuff but equally amazing.
14. Dub One - Volcon - Xtinction Agenda
This is why I love record shopping. I’d decided I’d do this mix but I wanted to get something pretty fresh on there. Went into Eastern Bloc and Jim pulled this out for me. Perfect!
15. Dawn Raid - Try To Believe - Rain
Have played this out at the end of sets for quite a while now. Always sends everyone batshit mental.
16. Danny Byrd - Shock Out - Hospital
Good times to finish with
