Bojcot
JUNGLISM
May 01, 2026
How it all got started for me:
At 10years old I got a double tapedeck. I bought it myself because I wanted to be able to record music I heard on the radio wile drawing cartoons. One saturday night I secretly stayed up late to listen to radio3 as they played music you’d never hear anywhere else around midnight. Just as this weird futuristic song came on my mom caught me and told me to go sleep. It kinda got lost in my mind as you think of so many cool things as a kid. I was 14years old when I decided I wanted to wear baggy trousers. Me and my mom went into Utrecht to do some shopping. We ended up at a skatestore in the centre were I picked out two pairs that I really liked. As I was fitting them I noticed the music in the background. I had this feeling of “hold on, this is the stuff I heard that one night.." so I went to the store clerk and asked him what was on. He said: this artist is called Aphrodite this music is called Jungle. So I convinced my mom passionately that I only needed one pair as I really wanted to go and buy that music. She agreed and I ran ahead to Plato recordstore on Steenweg to buy it. There the store clerk looked me funny when I explained what I was looking for asif he knew I was in for something huge. They had the cd and it was 40gulden so I bought it of my moms cash. I didn’t have a cd player in my room though. So I convinced my dad I needed an amp and a cd player. He suggested that I needed one of those little towers but I told him I might start expanding on that gear at a later time so what was needed were separate units.
Next stop was the library. I knew you could look into an official music database in the library computer. When I looked up aphrodite I found a couple of compilation albums that featured his music. That was a lead onto other artists. Shortly after I discovered prodigy and through the thank you list in the booklet of their Experience cd I hit the jungle jackpot. I sat in the library for hours taking notes and reserving the cd’s in their catalog. For weeks in a row I got phonecalls form the librarian with “the cd you reservered is back in” I had by then scored a minidisk recorder and started recording the cds onto minidisks. Timeless, Colours, New forms, Platinum breaks. They where all available in my local library.
One of the best musical find i had in those days was a cd called CUBIN - FLOW a compilation from a club night at amsterdam’s famous ROXY. My best friend Daan gave me that cd (cus his father had mastered it) with the message “i know you gonna dig this” I've got so much love for this album, the whole compilation stayed with me as a sort of baseline to my junglist programming.
I started messing around with some music maker programs and sample-cds I found on flee-markets. My uncle lend me his Spirit folio studio mixer allowing me to split my single 386cpu-output into two monochannels. Because of that I started loving being able to cut the bass from a break and vice versa. I discovered that most breakbeats I heard on my favourite tracks where all sampled from older music. I got a crappy record player so i could start sampling myself.
It was through chopping breaks and cutting them in and out of bassline on my simple mixer that I decided I wanted to start playing that music for real. My friend daan had a dj crew and they where using beltdrive players. After practicing with their records I thought that was shitty, they explained the players where the problem so I took a small job to save up for propper record players. By the time I was 17 I had enough money to buy my first technics sl1210. My parents bought me my second pair. At 18years old I was launched into dj-ing.
A Thursday night at De Vrije Vloer (later called de Helling) got me in touch with DJ FKA (urbandancesquad DJ DNA’s little brother). A few days after we met up at his place. It was the first time for me to talk to someone in depth about jungle. I distinctly remember a moment where I had explained to him I liked tunes where they properly chopped up the breaks, not too repetitive and not too much ragga influence either.. like sophisticated badboy stuff.. he pulled out a carboard box from a cubboard “man if you like that kinda stuff…. THIS whole box is only that shit” He slammed on DJ SS’s - Black, pointed out it was Whitney Houston on the vocal snippet.. and blew my focking mind. Come easy by Run tings was next.
A sneaky interpretation of school rules alowed me to organise a club-night as a final project for my graduation. For that night I booked FKA/Bong-ra/Sage & Westrum and a local jungle band called Six of your best friends (precursor to boomklatsch) these where all people whom I had met wile talking to everyone about my new found love jungle. My enthusiasm for the music got me a gig at Tivoli oudegracht alongside Bong-ra and Remarc that year. And many many more gigs followed.
Here's a list of tunes from this story. Hope you enjoy them as much as I have all these years.
Love, Boye "bojcot" jansen.
Xedos - Sound Ceased
Track number 8 on cubin - flow. A masterpiece and forever my most beloved tune. I love how it starts of soft and turns dark halfway in. The way the apache is cut in the breakdown. So delicate and aggressive at the same time.
Run Tings & Liftin' Spirits - Come Easy (Original)
FKA pulled this one out during our first junglist hangout.. he had a spare copy and gave it to me a few years later. The triplets on this amen chop are next level.
Goldie - A Sense Of Rage (Sensual Vip Mix)
In my early days of cd-library scavenging I found Timeless. I took it home and played it.. I think i didn’t like it at first but ripped it to minidisc nonetheless. After some more junglist teaching I went back to it and got properly convinced of its genius. This tune in particular is such an intense DNB blueprint.
OSMANI SOUNDZ - SPIRITUAL MASTERKEY
On of my early favourites. found on Talvin singh presents: anokha. Especially the little indian vocal chop in the second half tickles me right.
Cold mission - Comin' on Strong
Track four on FLOW. The way it starts of happy but turns into badness. Produced by Marc mac, one third of the legendary group 4hero.
J Majik - Liquid Velvet
Track seven on FLOW. A masterpiece of “not hitting the 1” The way this break dances around the clock is endgame material.. synths are sublime. fully makes up for the braindamage-boringass bassline.
OM unit - Spiritwerk
After a few years of messing around in 140bpm jungle and dubstep. this is one of the tunes that got me back into the proppah stuff. Using a vocal sample only once, so illusive.
Moresounds - Ting N Tings
One of my soundtracks for every moment of the day.. this tune is a masterpiece. Especiallly the breakdown. I remember thinking “all this needs to get this to genius levels is a distant rasta chant..and boom there it was”
Both these last two tunes are significant for me in how jungle has evolved into an ultimate form. They have retained its old school feeling but their production is modernised. they are both pretty stripped down for modern music. Like it should be, really.