COMING FROM CAPE TOWN… IT COMES FROM THE JUNGLE

Shredded breakbeats and heavy sub-basslines dominate Thursdays in Cape Town, a day that promises a night of dirty physical, visual and audio disobedience. Indeed, it’s the night of It Came From The Jungle: an event of Liquid drum ‘n bass and united abandon. And the place where it all goes down – Fiction - will be turning FIVE this month… Make sure you climb those stairs this Saturday for a killer celebration party.

All dreads and toothy-smiles, the driven, wonderfully bizarre individual behind this explosive initiative is Mark Stevens, better known to dancefloor aficionados as Niskerone. Starting out in 2004, Niskerone has been obscuring our minds with his innovative approach to D ‘n B, keeping The Underground alive from his elevated spot in Fiction.

It Came From The Jungle offers a frenzied mix of sounds.

From reggae to funk, to metal to electro, techno and house, to hip-hop… there’s pretty much a style of drum ‘n bass to suit everyone’s taste. (Niskerone)

It’s more like an approach: an electric approach to audio experimentation. High-energy jump-up D ‘n B resonates around the club, but just like the genre itself as a mishmash of elements, the night transforms and gets heavier later on.

The junglists march in two-by-two… to the bar and then the balcony to mingle with the who’s who, but the dancefloor offers a space where you can be whoever you want to be. And then someone different an hour later.

All in a noisy campaign to keep pushing the local drum ‘n bass scene, some of the names we should be giving thanks to on the dancefloor this Saturday are:  Niskerone, SFR, Hyphen, Rude One, Counterstrike, The MFU, Danja and Ant-Alias

Here’s to another five years of syncopating beats and letting the good times roll. Amen!