Origin Unknown - The Touch / Valley Of The Shadows

rage, Nov 12, 2005

Possibly the most famous Jungle / Drum n Bass tune of all time? Better known as 31 Seconds, the scene was not ready for this in 1993! I heard it for the first time at Delirious when Mickey Finn spun it on dubplate, when the bass dropped the place erupted. There was nothing else that sounded like it at the time, the sinister felt that i was in this long dark tunnel vocal (sampled from a QED documentary about near death experiences) along with the way the track twists and turns through darkness and light so smoothly set new standards for Jungle production.

This was the tune that put Origin Unknown and RAM Records on the map, I remember being in the infamous Record Basement in Reading when they took delivery of their copies, I think they all flew out there and then!

An absolutely timeless track, one that still sounds as fresh today as it did all those years ago and should be a part of every Junglists collection.

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