Lennie De Ice - We Are i.e.

Legendary release this, most DJs point to this as the first Jungle drum and bass track. With the fat reggae style sub-bass bassline, sampled gunshot and the 'we are i.e.' sample taken off Coldcut's first album 'What's That Noise?', the vocal is in fact an arabian call-to-prayer type chant, which, if you get the album, you'll hear in full.

Both the 'Hijack Remix' and the 'Drums Of Death remix' are terrible, both following the current 2008 trends respectively, and trying to place the track into something it's clearly not. Especially with a track that has already gone through the rounds of updating a few times. No, the one to cop this for is the Caspa & Rusko mix which also has top billing on this piece of wax.

Reinterpreting this classic into Dubstep would not proven hard since the original already shared the aesthetics of modern day dubstep. Caspa & Rusko laced the rough original drums onto a fierce wobblebass and worked the original pads & vocal sample onto the track. The track packs heat and will probably go down hard on a dancefloor

We are ie set a landmark in UK rave history!

Certainly not the first to sample the amen but this tune combined the break with gunshot + vocal samples, a simple but very effective reggae style bassline and was pitched up to the pace of the breakbeat hardcore emerging at that time.

Dropped by major name DJ's at London raves in the summer of 91, it was extremely well received by an audience that wasn't entirely happy with the dominating techno sound. This style perfectly captured the vibe of the scene and quickly established the musical form that later became known as jungle..

Allegedly first put together in 88 it has a raw feel and basic production typical of the era.
While changing the sound of London clubs and uniting a new breed of raver - in typical fashion was completely ignored by mainstream media and labels, which further secures it's lengendary status.

Anyone interested in the roots of real Jungle Drum n Bass should check this piece of vinyl - in my opinion it's the most important release for this style of music.

This massive tune that blew up raves up and down the UK in 1991 was certainly a ground breaking track that opened the door to a whole new style of hardcore rave music. It is also often cited as the first hardcore dance track to incorporate the amen breakbeat.

This is in fact wrong as the amen was being used in other tracks at the time and the first hardcore tune to feature the amen was 'Father Forgive Them' by Holy Noise (Hithouse) which was released in 1990.

Saying that We Are Ie is still one of the greatest tunes of a great era.

The track "We Are IE" on this record is often cited as being the first proto-jungle tune. It was the first tune to really incorporate a heavy ragga bassline with a breakbeat and was an indicator of what was to come. It was a huge tune played by every dj and still gets played today by the likes of MJ Cole as his closing tune.