Jungle Feelings: The Bladerunner Special – round II
This is my jungle set from the Tunnelsyn party in Copenhagen in November 2024.
The party was in a tunnel, so I had a lot of fun mixing in ‘Valley of the Shadows’ here and there, because hearing the ‘Felt that I was in this long, dark tunnel’ sample while partying in a tunnel is a must, obviously.
The oldest track in the set is from 1994. The newest from 2024. As always, time jumps are essential.
There are also two Bladerunner tracks in the mix, and in the most joyous of synchronicities, Bladerunner himself visited Copenhagen this weekend and played on Culture Box on Friday night, December 13th.
In another joyous time clash, I did a Blade Runner special exactly 8 years ago (well, 8 years AND 4 DAYS ago to be exact) in JUngLEkalenderen: Focusing entirely on Blade Runner (the movie) – and favorite Blade Runner samples used in jungle and drum’n’bass tunes.
You can read the entire thing here (guest stars: Harrison Ford, Keanu Reeves, Rutger Hauer, Dom & Roland and ESPECIALLY Jonny L): Jungle Feelings: The Blade Runner Special
I dedicated three full pages to Blade Runner (the movie) in my diary in December 1992 (after having watched the Director’s Cut at the MGM Cinema on Shaftesbury Avenue in London on Monday, 7th of December 1992).
My jungle adventure hadn’t started yet, then – but it would exactly one year later: On my birthday, on December 3rd, 1993, at The Paradise in Angel, Islington.
You can read more of my first impressions of the jungle scene in London in the mid-90s here: The Jungle Diaries: The Meaning of Life
Back to the present time, to the Bladerunner evening on December 13th, which was ALSO my birthday celebration.
Bladerunner played an unexpected amount of rarely heard oldskool classics (like, the ORIGINAL Champion Sound), so the entire month of December has been filled with full circle time dissolving moments like this.
Photos are not allowed on the dancefloor of Culture Box anymore, so here’s one from back in the day instead:
And here’s a grand selection of dancefloor moments: How to be a Junglist: The Dancefloor Moves
More time travel?
Scroll through all the JUngLEkalender entries ever made here: JUngLEkalenderen