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The Jungle Drummer

The Jungle Drummer (TJD) is one of the most respected and accomplished live performers to emerge from jungle and drum & bass culture. Over a career spanning almost three decades, he has built a reputation that stands alone within the genre. Having performed alongside an extraordinary range of DJs, MCs, producers and live acts, there is arguably no other drummer in the history of jungle and drum & bass who has worked with the sheer number of artists, performed at the breadth of raves, clubs, festivals and venues, or contributed so extensively to the culture as TJD.

From the pioneers who helped shape the scene through to today’s biggest artists and festivals, he has remained a constant presence at the heart of jungle and drum & bass. His career has seen him perform with legendary DJs including Randall, DJ Storm, DJ Rap, Nicky Blackmarket, Shy FX, High Contrast, Logistics, DJ Craze, The Scratch Perverts and many more, while sharing stages with MCs including Stamina MC, Eksman, Rodney P, Inja, Tonn Piper, Harry Shotta, Skibadee, MC GQ, SP:MC, Jakes, IC3 and Lowqui. Beyond drum & bass, he has also worked alongside internationally recognised beatbox artists including Killa Kela, Beardyman and Faith SFX.

One of the defining collaborations of his career has been with jungle and house pioneer A Guy Called Gerald. Having toured and recorded together internationally for over twenty-five years, their improvised live performances have become renowned throughout the electronic music world. From Tokyo to Berlin, Europe to Australia and beyond, they continue to perform together today, taking their unique approach to live electronic music to audiences around the world.

TJD was also an integral member of the award-winning, groundbreaking London Elektricity live act, helping establish one of the most successful live drum & bass bands of all time. Performing at major festivals including Glastonbury, Montreux Jazz Festival and Pukkelpop, the project demonstrated that drum & bass could command the world’s biggest stages while remaining true to its underground roots. The live show won multiple awards, featured regularly on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra and Gilles Peterson’s radio shows, and included sessions recorded at the legendary BBC Maida Vale Studios.

He also performed alongside Shy FX as part of the live band behind the UK Top 10 hit Shake Ur Body, appearing on major television broadcasts including Top of the Pops.
Another major chapter of his career came through his internationally acclaimed Drummer vs DJ show with DJ Fu. The project pushed the boundaries of live drum & bass performance and toured extensively around the world, appearing at venues and events including Ministry of Sound, The Warehouse Project, Metropolis, Brixton Academy, The O2, Nass Festival and Glastonbury. Featuring a wide range of MCs and guest performers, the project shared stages with and supported artists including Mark Ronson, Slipknot, Roni Size Reprazent, Korn, Andy C, Carl Cox, Q-Bert, Pendulum, Photek and many more. The show established itself as one of the most ambitious live drum & bass concepts of its time and helped cement his reputation as one of the most recognisable live performers in the genre.

Away from the stage, his drumming has appeared on labels including Hospital Records, Metalheadz, Ninja Tune, EMI, Universal, Sony BMG, V2 and Valve. He has worked with internationally respected producers including Chris Kimsey (Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones), Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers), Karl Gordon (All Saints), and audio and breakbeat visionaries Coldcut, while continuing to contribute to recordings across the electronic music spectrum.

Today, TJD continues to release sample libraries and drum recordings through Splice, where he is currently working alongside the legendary MC GQ, as well as through Loopmasters and Loopcloud. His sounds continue to be used by producers worldwide while his live performances remain in demand across clubs, festivals and major events. He also continues to perform internationally while developing and touring his latest project, The Jungle Drummer Live, his first solo headline show. Delivering up to two hours of high-energy live jungle and drum & bass alongside his own full-spectrum jungle and drum & bass DJ mix, the show features some of the scene’s most respected MCs, including Stamina MC and many others.

After almost three decades at the highest level of jungle and drum & bass, there has never been another drummer who has worked with the number of DJs, MCs, live acts and producers that TJD has worked with, nor performed at the breadth of events and venues that have defined the history of the genre. His career remains one of the most unique ever built within jungle and drum & bass culture.

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North Base

Manchester’s NORTH BASE have been in the game for over 30 years as Silver & Prophecy or Sonic & Silver, Accidental Heroes and other Alias over time. That’s nearly 3 decades of club Nights, Festivals, releases and much more. The Drum & Bass export have been causing serious damage within the dance music circuit for quite some time now. Regularly placed on lineups alongside Chase & Status, BOU, Andy C, Hybrid Minds, Shy FX and many more the duo have certainly made a strong impact globally with in the scene.

Already having played at some of the top music festivals and clubs worldwide including Glastonbury, Amnesia Ibiza, Fabric, WOMB(Japan) Andy C’s XOYO Residency, Warehouse Project Manchester (residents), Creamfields, Ultra Europe, Metropolis, Hideout, Parklife, Rampage and so many more to mention.

NORTH BASE continue to tear up each and every club, festival and dance floor with their unique cutting edge DJ skills & productions & sort after dubs that have already gained support from the heavy weights of the DnB world such as Andy C, Bou, Hedex, Chase & Status, Hybrid Minds, Pendulum, Sub Focus and others, regularly supporting their tracks.

Having featured on BBC Radio1 & Radio1 Dance this year in 2025 with their amazing guest mix for Charlie Tee on her drum & bass show which has got a lot of people talking in the scene. The guys have also gone on to remixed artists such as Craig David, Big Narstie, Ms Dynamite (OBE) Example, Benga, Skream, Laidback Luke, Sander Van Doorn, Labrinyth, and many more.

These guys are evolving each year from strength to strength and are serious game players within the drum and bass scene. Already starting the year off with a brand new album entitled ‘TRAVELING’ forthcoming very soon. Do not sleep on NORTH BASE as this year these guys have a lot of music to drop…

Roni Size

Roni Size’s whole life has been about building something new from whatever was around him. From Bristol youthclub parties, through the white heat of rave and the founding moments of jungle and drum’n’bass, to transforming underground electronic music into something that could be played by a live band on the biggest arena and festival stages, he has at each stage created completely afresh – not just a sound or style but an entire methodology of how music can be made. And each time, that new creation has reflected his heritage, his surroundings and the precise moment in which he’s operating.
 
20-years ago, The Mercury Prize win for his ‘New Forms’ album brought D’n’B to the forefront of dance-music news, making even the rest of the industry – where reactions had up until that point been bemused – sit up and pay attention. For several years thereafter Roni and team were on top of the world, succeeding as solo artists as well as a collective, maintaining underground credibility yet receiving Brit awards and even collaborating with some of the biggest names in hip hop.
 
2016 was a vintage year for Roni. Live shows included Ram Records’ NYE show at O2 Academy Brixton, a headline show at the BBC 6 Music festival and a summer festival season that began at Love Saves the Day with a curated Full Cycle Stage Takeover for Arcadia Afterburner and included Secret Garden Party, Evolution, Glastonbury, Blissfields, NASS, EDC, Dour, Boomtown, Frequency, Lowlands, Creamfields, SW4, Outlook, and many more. Roni relaunched Full Cycle Records with fellow co-founder, DJ Krust, with the releases drawing praise from The Wire, Dummy, UKF, Mista Jam, 6 Music, Gilles Peterson, Radio 1, 1Xtra, DJ Mag and beyond.
 
It was in 2017, as we fully appreciated the legacy that Roni has created for drum’n’bass, that the next chapter began. Roni toured his groundbreaking new audio visual live show, a combined live instrument and hardware show that features state of the art production and 3D effect projection mapping celebrating 20 years of New Forms.  Roni took the groundbreaking live show on the road to festivals in the UK and Europe as well as on extensive tours of the US, New Zealand and Australia with no let up as he also DJ’ed at the very best clubs and festivals throughout the globe.
 
The anniversary re-release of New Forms (on Universal and featuring the live set together with brand new remixes, edits and tracks) garnered huge support across digital and print media as well as on radio.  With premieres from MixMag and Tsugi, rave reviews and coverage by NME, Fact, DJ Mag, Clash and many others along with multiple plays on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1 Xtra, Roni cemented his position at the top of the game.
 
The man from Bristol showed no signs of slowing down, as he took to the road with UK and European live tours in 2018 and continued to travel to all corners of the globe to play clubs and festivals including Dirtybird Campout, Noisily, Blue Dot, Output, Creamfields and SW4. Roni finished 2018 with a remix for rising star Paris Green on Get Physical and played shows in Europe, the US, Australia, Asia and Brazil as well as appearing on guest spots across BBC Radio and continuing to contribute to charity projects and support the grass roots scene in his home city of Bristol.

2019 continued on a high. Roni worked on huge collab track “Calling” with Rag n Bone Man, which was selected as the “sound of summer” by Sky Sports and broadcast repeatedly across their channels. Roni appeared on BBC TV as well as regularly on radio and had his music chosen by Virgil Abloh to curate the designer’s Off White runway shows. Meanwhile, Roni played the likes of Printworks, Tomorrowland, Eastern Electrics, Fabric, Untold Festival and countless others. Roni ended 2019 as the face of highly-respected music tech brands Waves and Krotos, recognised for his contribution to the industry and his knowledge and skill as a producer.

Hurrain

Hurrian aka Beat Merchants aka Supply & Demand, an original Junglist
With a story of UK bass-heavy music itself, and who is set to write a whole new chapter.
Hurrian an icon of jungle, Drum & Bass and beyond has already racked up a lifetime’s worth of accomplishments across deejaying and production. raised with music all around him, his close family including members of the foundation reggae band Matumbi. The story is also intimately connected to the V Recordings family of labels. Bryan Gee and Jumpin Jack Frost also having produced music for Viper, Prototype, Emcee, Kool Kuts plus a list of credits across multiple styles, from mainstream to underground, is similarly dazzling. Remix work for the likes of Leona Lewis, Amy Winehouse, and Shaggy, a ‘Best Global DJ’ award, a straight up chart hit as one of the creators of ‘Bouncing Flow’…the list goes on.

Brockie

Back in the day, before he was involved in the jungle scene, Brockie was playing swing, soul, hip-hop and ragga, amongst other styles. He then swiftly found hardcore and that led him on the start of his journey to where he hit the explosion of the jungle scene. Brockie has been a known name and a DJ in the scene since 1988, representing in the jungle since day one. In 1991 he teamed up with friends to establish the infamous Kool FM 94.5 – the best and longest standing drum & bass radio station in the world to date! In 1997 Brockie set up his Undiluted Recordings label with Ed Solo, from which we have seen quality releases and much talent! The label has grown from strength to strength, with each and every new release which is unleashed from the Undiluted camp. Brockie’s style is very diverse. He very much works with the crowd and plays different sets to different crowds all round the world. When playing at a big rave you’ve got to have a balance of everything across the board, because everyone likes something different. Brockie has played all over the world and because of this, coupled with his long running relationship with Kool, Det and Undiluted, he has become one of the biggest names in the scene.

Marvellous Cain

Marvellous Cain is a seminal figure in the jungle music scene, renowned for his influential tracks during the genre’s ragga heyday in 1993-94. Among his most celebrated tunes are “The Hitman” and “Dub Plate Style,” which remain iconic to this day. Before signing with Suburban Base in 1995, Cain made his mark on the scene by releasing tracks on labelmate Sponge’s I.Q. imprint, collaborating with Sponge and Pascal (now a member of Ganja Kru) under various aliases.

Since those early days, Marvellous Cain has continued to leave his mark on the music world, performing at major festivals such as Boomtown, Outlook, B Live, Tokyo World, Back of Beyond, and Innovation in the Sun. His presence on the Rampage Stage at Notting Hill Carnival 2022 further showcased his enduring appeal and ability to move crowds.

With the relaunch of Suburban Base Recordings, Cain revisited some of his classic works, including the “Dubplate Style EP,” which was released during lockdown and climbed to number two on the Gallop record sales chart. His “Return of the Hitman” collector’s box set, supported by a highly successful viral marketing campaign, sold out within weeks, demonstrating the lasting impact of his music.

Cain’s recent releases have garnered significant support from platforms like BBC 1Xtra and BBC Introducing, further solidifying his influence in the scene. Beyond music, he has expanded his creative footprint with his own label, Yardrock Recordings, and a clothing brand, Born Outta Fire.

Additionally, Marvellous Cain connects with fans around the globe through his weekly radio show on Run Da Roost Radio, broadcast on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch.

His legacy as a pioneer of jungle Dnb music continues to thrive, making him a vital and dynamic force in the industry.

Kule T

Following the success of MN8, Kule T embarked on a solo career that showcased his versatility and depth as an artist. His solo work explores a broader range of musical styles, incorporating elements of contemporary R&B, soul, hip-hop, and electronic music. Kule T’s solo projects are marked by introspective lyrics, sophisticated melodies, and a commitment to pushing artistic boundaries.

Kule T’s debut solo album, “Emotional Rollercoaster,” released in 2021, received praise for its authentic sound and emotional resonance. Tracks like “See Me (Urban Hybrid Remix)“ and “Burn” highlighted his ability to connect with listeners on a personal level, while the production featured collaborations with top-tier producers and musicians. The album featured a blend of heartfelt ballads and uptempo tracks that showcased his vocal range and artistic maturity.

More Fire Crew

“Oi, who’s that More Fire Crew?

More Fire Crew are made up of 3 East London icons repping Waltham Forest set Grime on fire back in 2002 with their anthem “Oi!” (featuring Platinum 45), blazing straight into the top ten of the UK Singles Chart.

But they ain’t just one-hit wonders. More Fire Crew’s been everywhere — Top of the Pops, Pepsi Chart, even Nickelodeon. And let’s not forget their 2002 MOBO Nomination, solidifying their status as Grime legends.

But these guys refuse to be boxed in. Neeko, Ozzie B & DJ Sean Bartana keep it fresh, blending Garage, Grime, Drill & Trap effortlessly. Neeko summed it up perfectly, ‘We vibe with the beat, not the genre. And that’s never changing.’

These dudes live and breathe music. From remixing Gabrielle’s “Dreams” to tearing it up on tour with The Streets, they’ve done it all.

Live, they’re on another level. DJ Sean Bartana’s infamous for bringing tracks back again and again, keeping the energy through the roof. ‘We want you feeling the same vibes we do,’ they say. And trust, they deliver, with shows that leave you buzzing for days.

From BBC Radio 1 Live to Garage Nation, Wireless Festival to GRM Daily Awards, they’re everywhere.

Now, it’s 2024, and guess what? More Fire Crew’s back with brand new music, cooking up that heat once again, ready to take the world by storm, they’re about to set the scene ablaze. Stay tuned!

Flawless

Flawless was founded by Marlon “Swoosh” Wallen in 2004 and went public in 2005. Music and Dance has always been his heart and passion since the tender age of 4. Marlon’s early influences included Michael Jackson, James Brown, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, The Nicholas Brothers and a host of other naturally gifted performers.
Marlon’s dream has been to mirror his influences and become a major director – choreographer – performer with the aim to inspire people with his creativity and passion for dance.
Marlon’s aim was to present a different vision for an entertainer’s lifestyle and successfully achieved such, as for more than a decade, Flawless have been turning street dance on its head – and not just with all their upside down spectacular spinning but more so by having exceptional technical abilities as well as a charismatic approach and a razor sharp sense of style, Flawless have and are continuing to make a tremendous contribution to the evolution of dance.
Their sophisticated and mature execution has always enabled them to stand out from everyone else! Since starring on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 as well as becoming a house hold name, Flawless have appeared in smash hit movies Street Dance 3D 1 & 2, headlined for the Royal Family performing at the Queens Diamond Jubilee concert alongside Kylie Minogue, Performed for the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympics, heated things up with the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing professionals, and made history collaborating with the exceptional English National Ballet.