posted on 27/12/2009
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tickets? -->fnac!
You can now buy your presale tickets in all Fnac stores or on their website. Just follow this link:
http://be.fnacspectacles.com/recherche/rechercheRapide.do?search=MIJUN&okSearchButton=OK_x=x&_lang=nl
posted on 16/12/2009
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A Jungle Supreme 8 coming soon!
After a really calm year in the history of A Jungle Supreme we will be back in the new decade stronger than ever. If the first one goes by plan, there might be 3 of more editions this year (and maybe even another concept).
Here is our official statement about the next edition:
Since the late 80’s and early 90’s rave culture is what inspired us in the first place in organizing “A Jungle Supreme”. We are going to leave out the jungle and drum ’n bass music for this edition and go further into the past to explore the different paths rave culture has taken us through the years.
We will kick off the evening with Stubru Switch’s very own Tomaz who will take us back to the early years of techno and rave music.
The first stop on our trip is the late 80’s Manchester scene where the techno pioneers 808state emerged. In 1988 they released their raw acid house debut album Newbuild. A year later in 1989 they released their Second album ‘Quadrastate” which contains the huge hit Pacific state.
808 State will be represented on “A jungle Supreme” by Andrew Barker & Darren Partington who will deliver a smashing dj set.
Next we are bringing you experimental acid techno pioneer Mike Dred. He recorded for a variety of different labels, including Ghent’s very own R&S, R&S offshoot Diatomyc (which he helped running), and his own Machine Codes label, the bulk of his material has appeared on Richard James' Rephlex imprint, mostly under the Kosmik Kommando and Chimera names. Expect some harsh, relentlessly experimental acid and techno.
We will end our trip with a life set from Outlander whom you all remember from the huge rave anthem “The Vamp”. He has produced an impressive amalgam of refined and hybrid techno in the early 90's and brought crowds to sheer ecstasy playing live at raves in Europe and America. Sonic bliss for the most discerning ears.
Pictures and youtube movies online
Hye there,
all pictures are online and we found some youtube material as well (thanks skitzoiddd for filming!).
If there are more pictures, feel free to mail them!
Last but not least: does anyone know the girl at the left in this picture?
Dj Tango would like to have her emailadress. You can mail it in all discretion to info@ajunglesupreme.com
Thanks for coming!
Thanks for coming everybody,
it was a successful edition with a lot of happy faces.
Sorry about the non smoking regulation and the cup system, both are not our choice, but obligated in the venue.
Pictures will appear on our website tonight or tomorrow,
also some or all the sets will be available for download.
More news will follow about that.
posted on 11/01/2009
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Contest
Hye there,
Three weeks of studying, working or maybe simply waiting separates us all from the seventh edition of A Jungle Supreme. To kill the time you might want to participate in our little online contest. If you’re the lucky winner you will get 3 nice prices: a free entrance ticket for A Jungle Supreme, a free A Jungle Supreme t shirt and a very nice, hard to find Reinforced rave compilation on vinyl. All you have to do is answer this question: ‘What’s the name of the album released by T99 in 1992?’. Mail your answer to info@ajunglesupreme.com before the 24th of January. The winner will be appointed by an innocent child hand; his or her name will be announced a few days before the party. Obviously the winner will have to collect his prices at the party itself. Good luck!
posted on 10/01/2009
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youtube warm up
3 weeks to go until the big rave.
Get in the mood by watching some youtube material:
First movie is a special one, Dj Tango at work at Dance Planet 1993 Fifteen years later we will all relive the true feeling of rave. These beats may be considered as old but they still have the same effect on the dancefloor.
Second movie is T99 - anasthesia
classic 90's tune, rave all the way. Don't mind the shady video, our vj, Dr. Gorillah will provide more amusing visuals.
Finally we have a snippet of Remarc playing live in Holland
Expect scratching and lots of funky, wild beats from the godfather of amen jungle.
posted on 28/12/2008
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wallpaper
Searching for a new desktop? Don't look no further, here's a high resolution Jungle Supreme wallpaper.
click here
Keep on joining the mailing list by the way, free gadgets will be distributed under the new members. More info on that later.
posted on 28/12/2008
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Buy tickets online
You can now purchase your tickets for A Jungle Supreme online!
click here to go to the fnac site
posted on 17/10/2008
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RIP Diathroda
Big big loss...
A damn shame!
Can't say more.
Rest in peace Diathroda,
our thoughts go to all his friends and especially Sofie.
:(
posted on 15/09/2008
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pictures last AJS?
If you have any pictures of the last A Jungle Supreme, please mail them ( to info@ajunglesupreme.com) and we'll put them on the site.
Thanks for coming, we hope you all had a good time!
Up to the next one (31st of january)
posted on 12/09/2008
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LINE UP CHANGE!!
Due to circumstances beyond our control Trace will not be able to make it.
However we're happy to anounce Dom & Roland will take his place and destroy the dancefloor!
See you tomorrow!
A Jungle Supreme Tshirts for sale
We have some A Jungle Supreme Tshirts for sale. You can check them out in the pictures attached to this blog.
If you want one, send us an email and we will arange things further from there. The best you can do is go to the Jungle Supreme party saturday and pick them up there. If you can't we might meet in Gent so you can pick them up, otherwise we can send them (if you pay shipping). By the way, they cost 15 euros.
posted on 10/09/2008
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Article in De Gentenaar
For the Dutch speaking people,
today De Gentenaar published an interview with Choolder and Billy B about the history of A Jungle Supreme and music in general. If you want to read it click here
posted on 02/09/2008
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videoflyer
Our VJ, Dr Gorillah, just made a videoflyer for the next Jungle Supreme. To get in the rave mood
dates
September will be a very bizzy month for the web dj's. It all starts friday the fifth when Billy B will take care of the warm up on the second edition of a dubstep night called Substyle. The expectations are high for the night as the headliner is noone else than Darkstar, who's made a remarkable introduction in the world of dubstep with his releases on Hyperdub, Clandestine Cultivations and 2010. Belgian dj's Mezzdub and Phonetics (from the 54 collective who organised the excellent Shelter night last month), Cal and Sike (who will be the hosts of the first dubstep show on Stubru, starting in septembre!) and the mighty fine Solpher and Goldorak. Location is youthhouse Sjattoo in Schelle. The next day Billy will perform on a festival called moulin rouge in Tessenderlo. You can find more info on their site: http://www.moulinrougefestival.be . If you want free tickets you might mail Billy ;-) Next weekend it's of course time for the sixth edition of A Jungle Supreme, where Choolder and Billy 'll do the warm up and Supception the closing set of the night. The next saturday you can hear Choolder and Billy again, this time they will play all night long in café Het Vredesplein in Aalst. Expect a lot of funk, soul, hip hop, house and more! The 27th Choolder will play a drum&bass set in the roeiclub in Gent (a place with great memories for us) in a party called Bhasjies. Other dj's that night are Wontime, Zibro Kamin, Tropmanga, Cruizeoffiction and Agent Smit.
So hopefully we'll meet you on one of these nights. Enjoy the music!
A Jungle Supreme 6
After the last edition of A Jungle Supreme with Breakage and Randall you can now mark the next one in your agenda on the 13th of september. The concept hasn’t changed over the years, so again we tried to bring some of the best artists in the history of rave, breakbeat and jungle music to Ghent.
Headliner this time is one half of 4Hero, Marc Mac. He will play a Manix set, this means one hour and a half full of heavy piano breakbeat hardcore! Listen to hits as ‘Oblivion (head in the clouds)’, ‘Hardcore Junglism’ and ‘Mr Kirk’s Nightmare’ and you’ll know what to expect. Manix will be vocally supported by the widely respected mc MG.
Our second headliner is another man who’s releasing music for over 15 years: DJ Trace. In the mid nineties he was, together with Nico and Ed Rush, responsible for a new direction in jungle and drum&bass: Techstep. His label DSCI4 was the home for legendary names like Bad Company, Optical and Kemal. Trace will bring a set full of this dark and heavy style best known for its huge basslines.
For the 6th time our UK resident, dj Extreme, will be present to make you dance. Promotors and resident dj’s Billy B, Choolder and Subception complete the line up, just like local mc Mush who perfectly knows how to hype up the crowd. Vj Dr. Gorillah will prove his reputation and provide you with hypnotising and hilaric images.
Dig up your fluo dresses, whistles and horns and prepare for a real rave in Minus One, next to the new Palace of Justice on the Opgeëistenlaan (nr. 455) in Ghent.
Sonar festival review
About a month ago me and two friends made the rather spontanious decision to book some cheap Ryanair tickets to Barcelona. This was after hearing and reading a lot of good things about the Sonar festival, which would now be organised for the fifteenth time. Now, being sober again and back on Belgian ground, I can only share the enthusiasm.
Sonar Festival consists out of two parts: Sonar by Day, located in the city center, and Sonar by Night in the outskirts of the city. The former is more a platform for all kinds of installations, exhibitions and activities by multimedia artists, while the latter is probably better known, due to the fact that it's the actual festival where all the real big acts play. Due to a number of reasons (late arrival time, limited financial reasons and our nature as ravers which implies catching up sleep during daytime) we only bought tickets for Sonar by Night. A first look at the line up immediately shows us the main difference between Sonar and most of the Belgian festivals: there were almost no traditional rock bands, the festival is really dedicated to innovative electronic music. You can imagine we were surprised that the first thing we heard was Madness, a British Ska band that was really big during the 80's (you probably remember their hit One Step Beyond). The band wasn't bad, but Peter, one of my friends I joined, isn't the biggest Ska fan to say the least so we made way to the lovely Sonar Lab stage. This was definately my favorite stage as it was open air (and full moon), and there were autoscooters which made us immediately feel at home. We entered when Mary Ann Hobbes was mixing (maybe I should say putting her hands in the air after putting on another song without actually mixing). Still, Mary Ann has the loveliest radio voice I know and she pushes really good music (keep your eyes open for the Evangeline album she compiled, which will come out on Planet Mu one of these days). Next to that we went to check out Diplo, known for his versatile selection and mixing big hits with obscure third world beats. He played in Sonar Club, a really big room and I think that was one of the reasons he started his set with rather hard (and in my opinion uninspired) techno, fawlessly mixed though. After a while he mixed in a Nirvana song and my friend Bram suddenly became a Diplo fan. I'm pretty sure Diplo played more M.I.A. and likewise songs further in his set but we couldn't wait for that as Shackleton started his set in the Sonar Lab. I heard most of the music he released before so I thought I knew what to expect: abstract, ultra deep beats that don't fit in in any category, with some hypnotising spoken words over it. His music really worked on that time and place, actually a lot of people danced on his music, something I don't expect to see too fast in Belgium. After Shackleton it was time for Flying Lotus to do his thing. He actually was one of the main reasons we went to the festival. Did he live up to the expectations? Yes he did, and how! I read in an interview that his live sets are, in contrast to his more downtempo oriented records, meant to dance on. A simple distinction more artists should pay attention to. I especially remember his own productions and the Burial and Martyn tunes, really lovely in that setting! The jungle part at the end of his set was an excellent climax. Besides Flylo has a really infectious energy behind the decks, which in my opinion looks more authentic than Mary Annes'. I was a bit overwhelmed when he suddenly stood next to me taking a piss in the mens' room. Time flew by and it soon was time for the DMZ godfather Mala to drop the newest dubstep bombs. My respect for this guy is really big because in my opinion he succeeds, as nobody else in the dubstep scene, in finding the ideal balance between musicality and simple dancefloor fun. Big set. After Mala a Portugese-Angolan group I never heard of pleasantly surprised me. They were called Buraka Som Sistema and were described as 'the missing link between funk, hardcore and ghetto-tech', I would say: think about an African version of a The Bug, Flow Dan and Warrior Queen live set. I really didn't feel any need to check Richie Hawtin with his Minus gang doing their Contakt project, but that might had something to do with the enjoyable company or our newly made English friends. Theo Parrish was next on the bill, a name I heard a lot but honestly I had no idea what to expect from him. His set full with great funk, soul and broken beats was a nice change in atmosphere without bringing us out of our dancing mood. I don't really remember what the Japanese dj Kawazaki played after him, except for the fact that Flylo joined him for a back 2 back session untill 7 AM when security decided the party was over for that day. Very satisfied we returned to our hostel to catch some sleep before returning for the second night which would be as good as the first.
The second day started for us with the Antipop Consortium concert. I allways thought they were 3 guys, but there were actually 5 people on the stage. They started with some great instrumental beats resulting out of the conversations of their drumcomputers. Later on Beans, High Priest and Sayid took their mic's and spoiled us with some classics (like Ghostlawns and Ping Pong) as well as a selection of songs of their album which 'll come out later this year. After that the French Miss Kittin took over, the amount of people in front of the stage doubled, in contrast to the quality of the music. We still had some good fun with her lyrics like 'Miss Kittin is high', repeated 5 times and followed by 'Miss Kittin is horny'. Next time we want to hear 'Miss Kittin is hungry' or 'Miss Kitt has to pee' or something like that! Anyway, the little patriot in ourselves suddenly became alive so we decided to leave the room for what it was and go check out Soulwax. I don't like everything they do but one simply can't deny their accomplishments in contemporary dance music. The part of their set I saw started rather predictable, but then suddenly: BOOM. They did a live version of some classic Belgian rave tunes like 'James Brown is dead' and 'Anasthesia' (if I remember correctly). At that point I certanly wasn't the only one going mental. Normally I prefer intimate parties with a few hundred partying people but the catching effect of standing in between probably 10.000 ravers still can't be underestimated. In the mean time we hooked up with our English friends and cruised around a bit, waiting for the next highlight of the festival. That would become project X 102: a coöperation between Jeff Mills and Mad Mike, the two founding fathers of the legendary Underground Resistance techno label. During this live set they reïnterpreted their 1992 record: 'X 102 discovers the rings of Saturn'. This set made me think of a techno version of the best moments of Progression Sessions, the atmospheric jungle mixes by LTJ Bukem. If I could chose one set of the festival to witness once again it would definately be this one: so dreamy and spooky, the houer really flew away. Besides the spectacular visuals, making use of images of Saturn made by the unmanned Cassini-Huygens space mission, really added something to the experience. After that, Warp act Chris Clark stepped up, but I have to admit my head was still in the clouds so can't really comment on his set. By then the night was allready in its final chapter, and who else than Ricarde Villalobos could be the most appropriate protagonist on that point in time. Due to obvious reasons he could only play for two houers, so his selection actually wasn't that deep, nonetheless I really enjoyed the music this energetic, funny and most likely very nice guy brought us.
It was a great end for a festival with great people and so much good music. Luckily we still had 4 days left in Barcelona to sleep, buy out the fruit markets, do some beachparties, visit recordshops, make silly jokes (yes you, Bram) and so much more. Too bad the vacation had to end with Ryanair, don't like them, the wankers never let me take care of the flying part.