We're delighted to welcome Deep Jungle head honcho and Jungle Legend Lee AKA Harmony to this r/jungle AMA.
Starting in the early 90's working on Camden Tunes record stall before moving to working in both Lucky Spin Records and Section 5 Records, with shows on the legendary Don FM and releases on Moving Shadow Records and as part of Harmony & Xtreme on Section 5 Records, Lee has been in the Jungle scene since it's inception.
Originally launched way back in 1994 with Harmony's own excellent X-Amount and Wicked N Bad tracks, Deep Jungle then lay dormant for many years, until the loyal support and reverence of Harmony's own Dubplates-Vinyls Soundcloud page gave rebirth to Deep Jungle in 2017 offering up pressings of those holy grail DATS and Dubs that people had been asking for for decades.
From releases of rare and long lost DATs and represses of rare tracks from back in the day from the likes of Dillinja, DJ Nut Nut, Hopa & Bones, Grooverider, Subnation, DJ Trace, Ed Rush, Pascal, DJ Crystl, Orca, DJ Monk, Red Light, Adam F, Tech Itch, Ruffkut, Babylon Cru, Devious D, Dubtronix, to releases of fresh tunes from the leaders of the new wave of Jungle dons such as Tim Reaper, Dwarde, Phineus II, Ricky Force, Artificial Red, Kid Lib as well as his own new productions as Harmony as well as one half of Subjects, Lee has been absolutely smashing things across the board.
Please remember to stop by his Bandcamp and take a look at all the wonders it offers and for news on all forthcoming releases.
Big Thanks to u/Harmony-DeepJungle for taking the time out of his busy schedule to do this.
Leave Your questions below, and remember, be nice and don't be a dick.
Post your tunes for feedback here. This post will happen every Friday, from now on all tunes that people have made themselves and want feedback on need to posted here.
Everyone please give as much feedback as you can, thank you.
I’m new to making jungle, but if I’m honest I’m kinda getting bored of making music in general on fl studio. I want to branch out and start making music on trackers as well, just as a way to keep it interesting and fun as well as trying to really capture the sound of jungle. So I’ve kinda narrowed it down between these 2. I know renoise is more modern, but I like that milky tracker keeps the old workflow of a gen 2 tracker and emulates fast tracker 2 as close as possible(I have a little bit of experience with fast tracker 2). I also plan on using an mpc1000 alongside one of these trackers, and I just wanted to know which one would be better. As of rn I’m leaning towards milky tracker, but lmk your opinions.
hey guys. so like all of you i discovered jungle during the mid 90s in montreal, canada. and i started picking up cd compilations wherever i could find'em.
one cd in particular had this jungle remix (remake?) of a old song from 1975 called "i'm not in love" by 10cc. for some reason i CANNOT locate this song (or even the album) no matter how many jungle-esque terms i put in google search.
Besides Congo Natty's Junglist, which other songs? Here's a spreadsheet I made of all of the songs from your contributions [you can also add comments to the sheet]. Gratzi
Any Manchester junglists out there heading to this? I’ll be going for the first time, don’t really know what to expect! Couldn’t miss Tim Reaper and Mantra together on one bill though.
There is this weird distinct sound of what seems to be a foghorn or something in Sleepless. For some reason i really want to know what sound exactly is that.
Is it a foghorn/just any horn in general as i think or what is it? And if it is a sample, may i know the song where it got sampled from?
I've recently fallen head over heels for jungle and dnb generally. I've been getting every metalheadz and Good Looking Records Points in Time I can find but what are some lesser known mixes or artists to look into? Either late 90s/early 00s or modern stuff but I'm noticing I'm more into the 90s stuff
i am looking for the track at around 30 mins in this mix. I am searching for days now but i can not find anything... anyone of you knows what this tune is?
Inspired by LTJ Bukem and the Logical Progression and Mixmag albums. I’ve been working on this for a couple of years and it’s the kind of album I’ve always wanted to make. Trying to honor the 90’s jungle classics that I love. I hope all you junglists enjoy it!
DIGITIZE is a Max for Live audio effect that emulates the ADC/DAC of early digital sampling hardware inside of Ableton. With DIGITIZE you can control the digital timbre of any sound.
DIGITIZE features 12 injectable noise floors, bitcrusher envelope following, α-law companding, DC offsetting with DC blocking, DC shifting, independent bitcrusher mix control and independent downsampling mix control that follows ProTracker 2 resampling behaviour. The UI is split into 3 main views: FLOOR, CRUSH and DOWN, reflecting the signal flow from left to right. The example audio files are snippets of the different noise floors.
What makes DIGITIZE unique is the overall controllability of how the noise floors feed into the bit crusher. The noise floor to bit crusher signal path gives a huge amount of flexibility in terms of sound design and mix engineering. The user interface is simple and easy to understand, but also gives you advanced settings to precisely shape your sound. When you load DIGITIZE onto a new audio channel the default settings are entirely transparent.
Another great feature of DIGITIZE is the dynamic bit crushing mode controlled by the built-in envelope follower. The envelope follower internally controls the bit crusher mix and pre/post bit crusher gain. In default mode, quieter sections of your audio signal will be subject to more bit crushing, creating breathing like bitcrushed textures, great on percussion! You can externally map the envelope follower to anything else inside of Ableton. You can also sidechain the input too.
The noise floors are gated to the input signal and have an associated ADSR amp envelope. This feature allows for precise controllability over the amplitude of the noise floors. All standard Ableton ADSR envelope parameters are available, giving huge flexibility in terms of sound design!
So I have the opportunity to pick one of these up for $350 which includes $140 of shipping. The screen isn’t the best and apparently one of the drives needs replaced. I was looking online though and it seems as if we’re replacing the screen and the drive would be fairly simple and fairly inexpensive. I was thinking though that it’s still worth picking up. What do you all think? should I pick it up? I’m leaning towards the house, but I wanted to see what you guys thought.