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The original sound of drum ’n’ bass is back with a vengeance. As more DJs embrace the Amen choppage of jungle and more producers unleash their own take on it, we head to the UK club that plays nothing else.

Words: Alex Volume
Photos: Tamsin Mae

Mixmag arrives at an unassuming pub on the outskirts of Bristol: yellow walls, heavy wooden furniture, a questionable speaker stack in the corner blaring out top-volume dub records, and ageing men taking turns on the mic. A featherweight boxing match on a projector screen provides the backdrop. Are we in the right place? Then we spot some double doors at the back of the club’s car park that are struggling to contain the drums within. Our doubts end. Inside, Bailey is mid-set, the packed-out main room air-drumming along to his lecture in Amen breaks. He drops Equinox’s ‘Ital Lion Tuff Head’, released on his own Intabeats imprint in 2005, and the place goes ballistic. We’re here for the fourth birthday (and label launch) of Jungle Syndicate.

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26 Residents Crook, Lenore & Assembler

19+
10pm-2am
Residents: Crook, Lenore & Assembler
Visuals by VJ Bonk

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