Jungle Fatigue backstories

Jungle Fatigue Vol. 1, January 31st 2023

Jungle Fatigue as a whole began in late 2022. Back then my music was heavily inspired by oldschool ambient jungle/DnB compilations and mixes such as Jungle Tekno and Logical Progression. Naturally I thought it would be cool to gather people around and make something similar so that’s what I did! I wrote a bunch of emails to people and asked if they would be interested in participating. There were few producers making jungle in that style at that point so finding people was a bit of a challenge. Thankfully enough people were interested and Jungle Fatigue could take off!

I immediately began compiling the first Jungle Fatigue album. I designed the artwork(which I took inspiration from Jungle Tekno Vol. 5) with Photoshop 4.5 and Bryce 3D. After about a month of preparation I thought everything was looking good so I ordered 50 tapes from the UK and put them on Bandcamp for sale.

(Jungle Fatigue Vol. 1 tapes)

(Jungle Fatigue Vol. 1 alt artwork)

While I thought we had something great in our hands the problem was actually selling them. As a 16 year old I never had any experience distributing/promoting physical merchandise. Luckily for me, Thought-Forms(the owner of YouTube channel 4AM Breaks) and Arcologies helped me immensely so I was able to move stocks very quickly. I can’t thank them enough! Lots of people digged the album so I thought maybe I could turn this into a series.

Big thanks to Tempxa, Mil3sperhour, Hu3man, Arcologies, Architecture, Seim, Toadmilk, 24Bush, Dubplate Cake, Damolii, Skunkworx, Ecrylian, Agit & cONfUSiOUz.

Jungle Fatigue Vol. 2, April 4th 2023

I was highly encouraged with the success of Jungle Fatigue Vol. 1 so I started working on JF2 as soon as I could. During this time I met Accelio, Sardo, Pulsar One, ROOXG and a few others. Lifelikemoviee, who’d had been a friend of mine here in Korea, had recently started making jungle as well so I was being flooded with tons of fresh dope tunes! I was confident with what we had to offer.

Meanwhile, I was dissatisfied with my first artwork(JF1) so I practiced. After a few tries I came up with a picture of a frog DJ’ing in the pond. People enjoyed it so I knew I had to use that! Taking inspiration from Frogger 2(which I used to play a lot as a kid), I used Infini-D 4.5(1998) to create this new artwork. It doesn’t support any modern 3d file formats such as .OBJ so I had to design everything using the 30 year old internal modeler. Coming from Blender(with way more flexible modeling tools) I was frustrated often but in the end it was worth it!

Big thanks to Accelio, Thought-Forms, Seim, Architecture, Sardo, Bongomann, Pulsar One, KONYAC, Tormund, Skunkworx, Ecrylian, 24Bush, Lifelikemoviee, gu-100, Mil3sperhour, ROOXG & Hu3man.

Jungle Fatigue Vol. 3, October 4th 2023

I took a few months of break after JF2. After I was charged up once again I began working on JF3 in August. During this time I met Vblvb and Major Axis who are great producers. I was very surprised to hear that Vblvb was a 15 year old kid living in California, for his age his skills were incredible!

Just like JF2 I designed the artwork with Infini-D 4.5. I was inspired by Dreamscape(popular jungle event of the 90's) flyers and Mr. Krabs from Spongebob wearing headphones on his eyes. Some people have asked me if I took inspiration from Crab Rave meme or the Prodigy album but I had neither of them in mind. The “Nu Skool Flava Only For The Playa” tagline was borrowed from an old obscure DnB compilation Skunkworx found.

(Dreamscape 1 flyer)

(Mr Krabs wearing headphones on his eyes)

Big thanks to Accelio, Vblvb, Architecture, 24Bush, Pulsar One, Major Axis, Mil3sperhour, ROOXG, Sardo, gu-100, Lifelikemoviee, Tormund, Thought-Forms, Skunkworx, Agit, cONfUSiOUz, Hu3man & Swillie.