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It’s a lovely sunny in St Catherine

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💿 VANGUARD VAULTS #025 💿

🎵 The Urban Dread - Top Priority
📀 Ruff ’n’ Tuff Recordings | 1995

✨ Some records become classics. Others become holy grails.

Released as RNT 001, with Breezing Through the Jungle on the reverse, Top Priority is one of those records that separates the collectors from the casual listeners. Pressed in limited numbers and issued through the short-lived Ruff ’n’ Tuff imprint, it has become one of the most fiercely sought-after jungle 12-inches of its era. Discogs lists both a labelled pressing and a white-label edition, with the runout identifying the famous “Rambo” side and a JTS cut.

The Urban Dread was an alias of TDK, also known as Da Dread, a producer rooted in the early breakbeat underground and part of the same creative circle as Bizzy B, Potential Bad Boy and Sky Joose. By 1995, his production had evolved into something brutally distinctive: militant drum edits, violent snare pressure, cavernous bass and ragga vocals arranged with almost no regard for conventional structure.

The vocal comes from Ackie’s 1986 dancehall cut “Call Me Rambo”, but it is the drum programming that makes Top Priority genuinely extraordinary. Midway through the track, the snare is retriggered so rapidly that rhythm becomes texture, a harsh, almost mechanical blast that still sounds extreme today. One retrospective described it as some of the most militant snare manipulation in jungle, and that is no exaggeration.

🇯🇪 Vanguard Archives: This is one of the rarest and most treasured records in our entire collection. It captures everything we loved about 1995 jungle: raw ideas, impossible drums and music made without rules. Owning it feels less like having another record and more like protecting a piece of underground history.

🖤 Rare by numbers. Priceless by impact.

👇 Who else has this one? and is Top Priority one of the rarest records of the ’90s

#junglemusic #vinylrecord #oldskool #hiddengem

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💿 VANGUARD VAULTS #024 💿

🎵 Jagged Edge - Rock Baby
📀 V Recordings | 2000

💫 A hidden V Recordings weapon built from funk, darkness and pure rolling pressure

Released as V-031 with Driver on the reverse, Rock Baby came from Jagged Edge, the short-lived but formidable studio partnership of Optical and Ryme Tyme. Optical was already reshaping Drum & Bass through Virus and his revolutionary work with Ed Rush, while Ryme Tyme brought the raw instinct of an MC and producer raised within the No U-Turn movement. Together, they created something far funkier than the name might suggest.

At its heart is a bass and vocal loop lifted from George and Gwen McCrae’s 1975 funk cut “The Rub.” But rather than simply leaning on the sample, Optical and Ryme Tyme twisted it into a dark, hypnotic roller tight drums, enormous low end and that unforgettable vocal circling through the mix like a command to the dancefloor.

Its place on V Recordings matters. Founded by Bryan Gee and Jumpin Jack Frost, V had already introduced the world to essential music from Roni Size, Krust and DJ Die. Rock Baby showed that the label’s celebrated musicality could also sit comfortably beside the colder, futuristic edge of the Virus and No U-Turn camps.

Although never one of V’s most obvious anthems, its inclusion on both V Forever Baby! and the Krust and Jumpin Jack Frost-curated Retrospect Vol. 1 confirms its lasting place within the label’s history.

🇯🇪 Vanguard Archives: This is exactly what From The Crates is about looking beyond the biggest anthems and pulling out those deeper records that serious DJs never forgot. Dark, funky and devastatingly effective, Rock Baby still sounds enormous.

🖤 Not every classic demanded the spotlight. Some simply owned the dancefloor.

👇 Who remembers this one—and were you playing Rock Baby or flipping it over for Driver?

#vrecordings #junglednb #dnb #vinylcollection

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Happy birthday turns 22🥳

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🔥 BANK HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Kara & Atmos at Splash — Saturday 23.08.25

This Bank Holiday Saturday, two of the most explosive names in drum & bass land in Jersey for one unforgettable night. On Saturday 23rd August, KARA and ATMOS take over Splash for a full-throttle session of cutting-edge D&B, rolling rhythms, and serious energy.

With no work on Monday, this one’s built to go late and loud.

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🎧 KARA

Fresh off festival stages like Tomorrowland, Glastonbury, Boomtown and more, Kara is one of the UK’s fastest-rising D&B talents. Known for her high-energy sets and deep-rooted connection to the culture, she blends classic jungle influence with rolling new-school selections and crowd-shaking anthems.

In 2024, she launched The Foundation — an independent label and event series honouring the roots and future of the scene. Her debut releases are already making serious waves, and her DJ sets are all about bringing people together through movement, music, and unfiltered D&B passion.

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🎚 ATMOS

Belgium-born Atmos is taking the drum & bass world by storm. His self-released hit “Alarm” went #1 on Beatport, and follow-ups on Neksus Sound, Souped Up, and Basslayerz Recordings have cemented his reputation for heavyweight production and dancefloor-dominating sound.

With over 30 shows across Europe in 2024, upcoming releases on Crucast, a Serum remix of his track “Concentrate,” and a collab with Serum dropping in 2025 — Atmos isn’t just rising, he’s rewriting the rules.

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🌀 THIS IS THE ONE

Jersey’s Bank Holiday Saturday just got serious.

Expect wall-to-wall energy, bassline pressure, and two of the most exciting artists in drum & bass right now — live, loud, and fully locked in.

Saturday 23rd August 2025
Splash, Jersey
No work Monday. No excuses. Just music.

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Weekender jersey 25

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Happy Boxing Day

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Dinner at Kyoto my sushi platter #foodporn #sushi #sushilovers

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Fresh trim shave my head

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Mushroom pizza and potato wedges

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Shave my head fresh trim

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I’ve got new Lucazade sport raspberry & passion fruit

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