JUNGLE DRUMMER & FU
A WEEK IN
THE LIFE OF
JUNGLE DRUMMER
& DJ FU
SATURDAY
Fu: I pack up all my equipment and get a cab to Sound Works Studio in Oxford. I arrive to see Jungle on the phone outside moaning about
things and the cricket. I set up my equipment up in 10 minutes and wait 15 minutes for Jungle to return from the phone and look at his
drum kit lying on the studio floor not set up. But luckily a local fan has agreed to skin them, tune them and set them up for him. While he
moans at him for purchasing the wrong skins for his kit and then about Iraq.
Jungle: Longed out rehearsing by going to the local chip shop with Fu. Got off the phone to Stamina who was correcting people’s grammar
and punctuation on drum & bass forums. He arrived at the studio at midnight and then DJ Chemical came down and we went through are
routines for the next day. There was a good vibe in the studio so we jammed until late in the morning. Which wasn’t a very good idea as we
had to record a video in a few hours for Drum & Bass Arena.
SUNDAY
Jungle: Today is an important day as it’s the first time we’ve documented our routines since our first video. We feel eager to move on from
our first show at Truck Fest where the sound engineer said to us we had 15 minutes to set-up and then he was going down the pub. We
both met back at the studio in the morning with MC Duke. Duke gave us a lift to Keynote Studios in Reading which is part of Load Media
Distribution. Duke is old skool and spoke about the glory days in music when you could make money from releasing records.
Fu: Having never recorded in a studio before I found the environment a complete contrast to jamming the day before. There was no table so
I had to balance a coffee table on top of a guitar amp.
Jungle: I smoke some cigarettes in the rain and finally set my drums up, which is the worst thing about being a drummer. However once I
heard the sound of the room the drums sounded amazing which was wicked. Yakuza studios then arrived; they’re a crew from Oxford that
filmed our first YouTube link alongside Stamina. The set-up of the studio meant that we had been put in our own rooms surrounded by
double-glazing. When you’re in the studio you always end up running out of time and we started to struggle towards the end of the session
being overtired. As we continued things were sounding wicked, especially the overall sound in the studio. By the end we were happy with the
sound and execution of the routines. We have to give a massive big up to Stamina who always delivers and smashes it with all his different
styles. We’d like to thank Joel, Amir, Noel from Keynote Studios and Miles from The Jazz Thieves.
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