Fokus

𝟯𝟬𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙅 𝙁𝙤𝙠𝙪𝙨’ 𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙟𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙨.

Frankly, Doug Shipton’s Fundamental Frequencies are doing God’s work with these reissues for some of peak jungle’s most desired plates. Just months on from the reissue of DJ Fokus ‘Get a Bearing / Dream’, the other release on his short-lived label Suicide Records, ‘Watch Out / Media’ is dusted down, engineered, remastered and newly cut by OG hardcore junglists Pete Parsons (Voyager) and Beau Thomas (Intense) to sound brilliant on 2024 soundsystems.

Both tunes are an apotheosis of jungle’s darkside, hailing a point when precision-tooled engineering was taking over from more manic cut-ups, in the roiling wake of breakbeat hardcore styles forged and rolled out by likes of Rufige Kru, Tom & Jerry and Doc Scott.