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A youthful, multicultural, rag-tag community that rattled the status quo
Jungle Brown in full swing [Oli Zitch/flickr/Creative Commons]

Junglist
by Two Fingas and James T Kirk
Repeater Books, £10.99

JUNGLE music was the backdrop to a distinct British youth culture that evolved in the early 1990s. Sampling musical influences from hip hop and reggae, it was a heavyweight champion of dance music, characterised by throbbing basslines, looped percussive rhythms and rapid breakbeats.

Jungle was massive.

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