Jungle
Jungle is a fast British dance music style built on rapid breakbeats, deep reggae-style basslines and samples drawn from Jamaican sound system culture.
It developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s out of breakbeat hardcore and the rave scene, shaped heavily by Jamaican sound system culture. Producers sampled breakbeats from funk and jazz records, above all the Amen break, and set them against the deep basslines, melodies and vocal samples of dub, reggae and dancehall. It was the direct forerunner of drum and bass, which split away from it in the second half of the 1990s.
Artists it is known for: Shy FX, Congo Natty, Goldie.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United Kingdom, early 1990s
- Also called
- jungle techno, hardcore jungle
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have jungle among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Jungle artists
Machine Girl
Chase & Status
Sewerslvt
Goreshit
Rory in early 20s
usedcvnt
Cynthoni
Nia Archives
hkmori
Blksmiith
The jungle artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.