I've heard a lot of sweet clips thrown in jungle tracks like pendulum's masochist. But this one is currently my favorite. I don't know where its from, a quick search comes up with nothing. So its possible its an original for the song, which if so, its brilliant. I know a jungle track when i hear one, they're just so definable. And jungle's been around a long long time. Longer than jump up, dubstep and drumstep and all those other sub-genres.
If i try and think back to the days where i first was listening to dnb, jungle was in its dying throes. Its basically what gave birth to today's dnb. I was big into Andy C, the god of dnb. He got into the game early where he was using all the sounds characteristic of jungle and making new songs that didn't conform to the standard. They were more electronic and a lot like what you'd hear today. He went on to make one of the biggest record labels for the genre i believe, and totally had a hand in the entire movement of the scene.
But you still see people mixing jungle live, its great for dancing and i'm sure its awesome fun to spin. Another thing that carried over from jungle was vocals. Jungle is quite similar to reggae, and they used to have something called ragga vocals on top of the tracks. At any show you'd go to today you will hear an MC singing exactly like that, with the exception of live bands like pendulum, but i know dj sets of pendulum are definitely going to have it.
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