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Poor Edward - Tom Waits

Diamonds on the soles of her shoes - Paul Simon

Flight of the Tiger lily - hiatus kaiyote

As bass players, perhaps squarepusher might be a good way in? The missing link between jazz funk and jungle

Waiting in vain - Bob Marley

Getting better - Beatles

simple, but sonically devastating in the right context

Listening to individual tracks only gives you half the picture. This is dance music and the performance is in the mixing of the tracks together to make new hybrids. The 'music' exists in the timbre, the rhythmic complexity and subtleties in programming. It's hard to appreciate in a single YouTube track. Also most of the tracks originally had an extremely short shelf life, only existing as dubplates. The attraction was similar to reggae dancehall where the newest sounds are an attraction. This is why they style changed so rapidly over a relatively short space of time (93-95), after that it became codified in to a genre, with bandwagon jumpers a plenty ( cough David Bowie).

Some quick links.

If you like reggae at all, use that as the way in. Some great jungle tracks based off dancehall vocals. I tend to hear it as double time drums with reggae speed bass. It partly comes out of sound system culture so the sound is meant to be felt as much as heard. I'll post some favourites when I get a chance later.

Glass museum - tortoise

Bossy - kelis

Give it up or turn it loose - James brown

I see you - little simz

Sun is shining - Bob m

Play fool fe get wise - Johnny Clarke

Curly locks - junior byles

bucephalus bouncing ball - aphex twin

Rock n rolls evil doll - captain beefheart

Liquid sunshine - parliament

I remember nothing - joy Division 😜

What a day day - fog

No fun - stooges

Murder she wrote - Chaka demus and pliers

Moon germs - Billy Cobham