Soon, drum & bass bore little resemblance to its junglist roots, and the sounds of UK garage bubbled up, paving the way for dubstep and grime.īut along with all things ’90s, jungle is having an undeniable resurgence in dance music circles.

Goldie was a household name in England, Roni Size had won a Mercury Prize and glitchy breakbeats were the sonic stamp of impending Y2K. By the late ’90s, commercial interests had infiltrated the underground, employing the sound for countless video games, cartoons, and commercials.

However, the rapid evolution of jungle also led to its dissolution, and soon its frenetic beats gave way to the propulsive rhythms of its chiseled-down successor - drum & bass. While the musical moods and stylistic tendencies differed between artists, DJs, and labels, the blueprint remained consistent: samples, bass, and breaks at 160 beats per minute. The music could be menacing and raw, like the British answer to gangsta rap, but it could also sound like a space-age reflection of jazz. Yet another innovation of Black musical creators, jungle took the hyperactive breaks of hardcore rave and set them against the heaviness of dub to become the discontented roar of England’s working-class youth. From the early to mid-1990s, this new style known as jungle ushered electronic music into a bold era of technological experimentation while opening a fresh chapter in UK club culture more indebted to Jamaican sound systems than acid house raves. Explosive beats at breakneck speed, otherworldly soundscapes either sampled or synthesized, and that driving-but-dubby low end formed from pure, uncut sine waves.

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