Funki Porcini "King Ashabanapal (Dillinja Mix)"
THE penultimate track for Jungle/Drum & Bass for me.
THIS is the one that got me HOOKED on d'n'b,
after a short stint with "Acid Jazz/Trip-Hop",
for pretty much 10+ years straight!
I stopped buying most/all other forms of music,
and focused all my attention on JUNGLE!
I even got my wife & son (now 14) into it!
When he was little, he learned to
beat-box Jungle almost before he could talk!
Imagine a toddler running around singing:
"mmm-DET, m-DET, mmm-DET, m-DET"
to everyone... they thought I was NuTs!!!
love, Love, LOVE this track!
I was lucky enough to also meet & talk to
Mr. Funki Porcini himself at a Ninja Tune
event on the water in San Fran about
12 years ago, complete with lasers!
Very nice guy (I think I was the only one
who recognized him, so he smiled with surprise:)
Told him this was my favorite track
of all time...
Im now "back into" House (obviously!;),
among others for the past several years,
after a long, strict diet of JUNGLE...
As far as the video:
Windows Movie Maker keeps crashing on me
(doing this at work, where I basically LIVE),
so my fancy, on beat editing had to be left to chance after too many edits.... *groan*.
Hope to make a better one in Vegas some day.
Pics of the single, both CD & vinyl,
a few of Funki Porcini (more recent, now a duo?),
and of course:
Mr. Karl Francis!!!!
"The Fiercest, the fiercest..."
A little note on "King Ashabanapal" (sp?):
(snippets from the ever-amazing Wikipedia:)
"Ashurbanipal (b. 685 BCE -- d. 627 BCE), the son of Esarhaddon, was the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. He established the first systematically organized library in the ancient Middle East[1], the Library of Ashurbanipal, which survives in part today."
Basically, he INVENTED the LIBRARY... smart guy!
I believe the following may explain why
Funki Porcini used samples stating things like "The Fiercest" (as heard in D's mix):
"It was clear, however, that Ashurbanipal, as king of Assyria, like his fathers before him, was also "king of the universe....
Despite being a popular king among his subjects, he was also known by enemy nations for his exceedingly cruel action to defeated kings. Some accounts and pictures show him putting a dog chain through the jaw of a defeated king and then making him live in a dog kennel. Many bold pictures and paintings even boast of such cruel acts, showing he was proud of all that he did."
At least we KNOW Dillinja is TRULY
"The Fiercest" in the World Of Drum & Bass!
~dj moon~
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