Early jungle evolved from the acid house of the late 1980s. Key acid house tunes during the evolution period were 808 State's "Cubik" and Stakker's "Humanoid." Each of these are examples of the experimentation with broken beats. Also during the same time Frankie Bones is said to have "invented the broken beat." While this claim is argumentative he contributed to the experimentation towards breakbeat with his track titled "Bones Breaks."

At the time a lot of this music was considered to be hardcore. Music tempos were being pushed higher than had previously occured with traditional house and even acid house. A lot of the hardcore songs at the time were upbeat so certain producers responded to this with more agressive and dark-minded music. This was known at the time as "darkcore."

The dark sound appealed to many people in dancehall & reggae communities. Darkcore & dancehall were being mixed together at parties until soon dancehall reggae was incorporated into the sound of darkcore.

As the yet-unnamed genre evolved, the use of sampled breakbeats became more complex. The most notable sample is the Amen Break which was taken from a funk song by The Winston Brothers called "Amen, Brother."

This podcast is a retrospect at some of my early jungle collection with tracks from 1991-1993. To me early jungle was defined with tracks by Roni Size & LTJ Buken. Dj Hype, Goldie, Fabio & Grooverider were very big influences as well at the time.

Tracklist:

Rufige Kru - Fabio's Ghost
Q Bass feat. Skeng Gee - Gun Connection
Dubplate Remixes - Simply Rolling
Brainkillers & Lewi Cifer - Hurt Me
Roni Size - Fresh
Ravers Choice - Side B
Roni Size - The Refresher
LTJ Bukem - Bookworm
LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression
David Bryce - Logical Reprise
Bodysnatch - Euphony
Brainkillers & Lewi Cifer - On A Different Mission
Xenophobia - The Phoenix