{"id":2213,"date":"2012-10-01T21:26:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T20:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:14:39","slug":"pearsall-dark-side-of-the-nuum-raggajungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/pearsall-dark-side-of-the-nuum-raggajungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearsall presents Dark Side Of The Nuum (A special mix for \/r\/raggajungle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/pearsall-dark-side-of-the-nuum-raggajungle\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/dsn\/Pearsall-DarkSideOfTheNuum.jpg\" alt=\"DarkSideOfTheNuum\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/dsn\/Pearsall-DarkSideOfTheNuum.mp3\">Pearsall presents Dark Side Of The Nuum<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>right-click on the title and save as to download<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mixed in London in September 2012, using 100% vinyl on two Technics 1210&#8217;s and a Pioneer DJM600 mixer<br \/>\n(29:51, 70 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F61855010&#038;show_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/dsn\/Pearsall-DarkSideOfTheNuumBIG.jpg\">Large cover<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/dsn\/Pearsall-DarkSideOfTheNuum.cue\">Cue file<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/dsn\/Pearsall-DarkSideOfTheNuum.zip\">Zip pack (split into separate tracks)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Style: Classic ragga jungle sounds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Direct link to the mix: <a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/dsn\/Pearsall-DarkSideOfTheNuum.mp3\">https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/dsn\/Pearsall-DarkSideOfTheNuum.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracklisting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01. Cool Hand Flex &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Coolhand-Flex-Mercy-Mercy-Legal-Rights\/release\/74803\">Mercy Mercy<\/a> (In Touch)<br \/>\n02. Smokey Joe &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Smokey-Joe-A-Special-Request\/release\/350863\">Special Request<\/a> (Labello Blanco)<br \/>\n03. Undercover Agent &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Undercover-Agent-Dub-Plate-Circles-Bass-Kick\/release\/155713\">Dub Plate Circles<\/a> (Juice)<br \/>\n04. Marvellous Cain &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Marvellous-Cain-Dub-Plate-Style\/release\/66951\">Dub Plate Style<\/a> (Suburban Base)<br \/>\n05. DJ Trace &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Trace-Final-Chapta\/release\/139346\">Final Chapta (Chronic Mix)<\/a> (Dee Jay Recordings)<br \/>\n06. Capone &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Capone-Soldier-Massive\/release\/1481517\">Massive<\/a> (Hard Leaders)<br \/>\n07. Krome &#038; Time &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Krome-Mr-Time-Ganja-Man-Studio-One-Lik\/release\/191676\">Studio One Lik<\/a> (Tearin Vinyl)<br \/>\n08. Trinity &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Trinity-Gangsta-I-Selassie-I\/master\/15171\">I Selassie I (Artical Mix)<\/a> (Chronic)<br \/>\n09. DJ Hype &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Hype-Roll-The-Beats\/release\/66962\">Dub Plate Fever<\/a> (Suburban Base)<br \/>\n10. Marvellous Cain &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Marvellous-Cain-Hitman-Remixes-Part-1\/release\/303510\">The Hitman (Dream Team Remix)<\/a> (IQ)<br \/>\n11. DJ Dextrous &#038; Rude Boy Keith &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/DJ-Dextrous-Rude-Boy-Keith-Da-Kings-Of-The-Jungle-Part-One-DJ-Promo\/release\/2467933\">Wicked<\/a> (Suburban Base)<br \/>\n12. MA2 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/MA2-Rollers-Music-Hearing-Is-Believing\/release\/1912442\">Hearing Is Believing<\/a> (Formation)<br \/>\n13. Brainkillers &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Brain-Killers-Family-Of-Intelligence-Border-Line\/release\/104867\">Screwface<\/a> (3rd Party)<br \/>\n14. Remarc &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Remarc-Drum-N-Bass-Wise-Sound-Murderer-Remixes\/release\/75892\">Drum N Bass Wise (Remix)<\/a> (White House)<\/p>\n<p><i><font color=\"red\"><b>Enjoy this mix? Please consider <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/please-donate-to-help-keep-sonicrampage-awesome\/\">making a donation to help support Sonicrampage<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Cover:<\/b> Self-portrait, June 2004 (how time flies!)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Content content content!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the next little period at Sonicrampage is all about &#8230; <b>fresh content<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>This new content frenzy kicked off yesterday with TROTA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/trota-presents-secret-world-a-sonicrampage-guest-mix\/\">Secret World<\/a>, and continues today with this new mix from myself: 30 minutes of the choicest ragga jungle chopped together ninja style. But that&#8217;s not all! Still to come in the next week are a tribute to legendary acid trance label Eve Records by <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/johannilsson\">Johan Nilsson<\/a>, as well as my own 90 minute tribute to the one and only DJ Zinc. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very very exciting week!<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s this mix all about?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s my entry into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/raggajungle\/comments\/104cal\/mix_comp_submit_mixes_and_vote_in_this_thread\/\">a little mix competition<\/a> being hosted on the <font color=\"green\"><b>\/r\/raggajungle<\/b><\/font> subreddit on Reddit, the extremely popular (and awesome) social news website. Over the last couple months I&#8217;ve really gotten into Reddit, so I thought it only fair to name the mix after my own username <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/DarkSideOfTheNuum\/\">DarkSideOfTheNuum<\/a>. For those who are curious, the name is a reference to Simon Reynolds&#8217; concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewire.co.uk\/articles\/2009\/\">the hardcore continuum<\/a>, i.e. the ever-changing face of London dance music from hardcore in the early 90&#8217;s through jungle, drum n&#8217; bass, UK Garage, grime, dubstep, to the various UK Bass mutations of today.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the comp itself, when I saw it advertised, I figured it would be fun to enter, especially since it has been a while since I did a full on jungle mix. <\/p>\n<p>Which is why late yesterday afternoon I picked out a bunch of records, stood in front of the decks, hit record, and then proceeded to chop my way through 14 tunes in the allotted 30 minutes &#8230; no mean feat, considering how tricky some of these early tunes are to mix! In terms of the thinking behind the mix, I started off with a couple of rollers before unleashing the smashing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac&#038;t=76s\">Amen drums<\/a>, because I wanted to mix things up a bit and I figured that there was no point in making a mix that was pure tear off your face business. Secondly, I also wanted to avoid the temptation to just cane a load of anthems, so I&#8217;ve tried to keep things varied by including some more obscure, but still really good, tunes alongside some of the more obvious classics. Thirdly, I also didn&#8217;t want to repeat any of the selections made for my <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/pearsall-presents-street-dreams-new\/\">Street Dreams<\/a> mix, which I did back in 2010 (if you like this mix, you should definitely check that one out too). Finally, in terms of the actual nuts and bolts of the mixing, I have kept to my usual style of mixing, which is always about doing something a bit more energetic and exciting than just smoothly segueing from track to track every five minutes or so &#8211; but given the time constraints, I just turned up my hyperactive mixing style another notch!<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I&#8217;m very pleased with this mix, and even if it doesn&#8217;t win the competition, I still think it&#8217;s pretty fucking good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Respect to all the original producers, to the \/r\/raggajungle mods, and to all the junglists around the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 minutes of classic ragga jungle from Pearsall, from rollers to straight up tear-outs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixes","tag-drum-n-bass"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}