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Pearsall presents Thrive in 95
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Mixed in Berlin, December 2025
100% Vinyl
(89:52, 206 MB, 320 kbps mp3)
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Direct link to the mix:
https://sonicrampage.org/mixes/1995/Pearsall-ThriveIn95(1995JungleMix).mp3
Tracklisting:
- Kemet Crew – The Seed [Parousia]
- Dillinja – Tear Down (Da Whole Place) [Conqueror]
- DJ Monk – Dance Hall Style [KLP]
- The JB – Below Zero [Back 2 Basics]
- Jaco – All The Ladies [Unity]
- Ron Tom – Pirates 1995 [Metamorphosis]
- Bizzy B – Rebel with a Cause feat Dennis Brown [Labello Blanco]
- Point Blank – The Style [One Touch]
- DJ SS – White [Formation]
- Urban Jungle – Volcano Style [Strictly Underground]
- Beat Twins – Dance the Night Away [Spotlight]
- DJ Fallout – Lullaby [White]
- Majistrate – Big Tings [Intalektive]
- MA2 – Hearing is Believing [Formation]
- Law & Auder – New Jam [Slammin Wreckz]
- DJ Biggs – Sunrize [Back 2 Basics]
- Just Jungle – As We Enter [Trouble On Vinyl]
- Shogun – Wind Dancer [Renegade]
- Aquarius – Waveforms [Looking Good]
- Adam F – Circles [Section 5]
- Lionist – It’s A Shame [Slam!]
- Dred Bass – Moods [Second Movement]
- Prizna – Inna City ft Tenor Fly [Kickin Underground Sounds]
- Radical Sound – Trigger [Jungle Mania]
- Capone – Soldier [Hardleaders]
- The Man With No Name – VIP [VIP Champagne Bash]
- Chatta B – Journey Into Sound [Redskin]
- Intense – Prophecy [Rugged Vinyl]
- Therapy? – Loose (Photek Remix) [A&M]
- Photek – Consciousness [Metalheadz]
Happy New Year!
To celebrate this new year, here’s … a mix. Surprise!
This mix was actually supposed to be released last year, as a thirty year anniversary celebration of jungle / drum n’ bass in 1995, but, frankly, I didn’t get around to it. So here it is, a few days into 2026 … but what’s a few days between friends?
If you’ve been reading my blog over the years you will know that I love a theme; I have a massive record collection and I love making mixes, so having a theme makes it easier to decide what to mix. In this case, the initial idea came, bizarrely enough, from a thread on the Dissensus forum called ‘Thrive in 95‘, which made the case that 1995, not 1994, was the real annus mirabilis in jungle history. There’s a strong case for this theory!
Initially, I wanted to do a mix of tracks featured on the thread, but I quickly decided that was insane, as it would be way way way too much work to go through the whole thread and make a list of all the tracks. Instead, why not ‘borrow’ the name and just make a mix from the 1995 tracks I own? Much easier solution!
And in the end, that’s exactly what I did. I downloaded from Discogs my entire collection, filtered for the 1995 jungle / drum n’ bass stuff, then patiently worked through the list, pulling together interesting tracks and putting them into four piles:
- Ragga jungle
- Atmospheric stuff
- Rollers
- Amen tearouts
This was cool, but, then, tricky, as I found myself starting at four large piles of records, without a clear sense for how I would turn them into a coherent mix. So what I decided to do was to ask Claude.ai to give me a rough 30 track sequencing based on the piles, and it gave me a four part selection, with each section broken up into a numerical value from each pile. The rest was up to me! Actually, this was a nice way to work with AI – I picked out the initial records, I came up with the concept, I did the actual track list and mixing, and AI just provided a little advice to get me past the blockage.
The mix itself was done in one take and I’m really happy with it – there are a few slightly rough bits, but that is authentic to the 1995 jungle vibe. 😉 Overall it hangs together really well, switching up styles throughout the mix, and delivering some great vibes. In terms of the tracklisting, although there are a few big anthems, for the most part this is a real trainspotter’s selection – tons of rare bits and obscurities on here! Just going through the records led me to rediscover tons of amazing tunes, so much good music was released that year, it is just insane in retrospect. Honestly, I feel like I barely scratched the surface!