- It's hard to call jungle revivalism essential music in 2017. But if you're playing jungle and drum & bass, there are a lot of new productions that are worthy of attention. While many feel like exercises in genre nostalgia, the better efforts brim with an infectious, genuine feeling. Rumbleton has a voice of his own. Where his other productions could be described as break-centric drum & bass, Pressure / Magnetic, indulges in the burnt-out high frequencies and rotund subs of golden-era jungle.
Jungle's deep blue moments can be as affecting as any genre, and at the beginning of "Pressure" we get a touching combination of melancholy and euphoria. There's Paradox-school beat science here, but the overall atmosphere is what keeps you engaged. The B-side is more heads-down. The clattering breaks stumble as they hiss above a robust slab of bass that slides below the drums like an undercurrent. It's all about the swerves and fills, the incessant resetting of momentum. If you heard it in the dance, you wouldn't care if it was from 1993 or 2017.
TracklistA Pressure
B Ultramagnetic