Modern Times: LTJ Bukem/Good Looking Records documentary (upscaled)
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- Erykah Badu - "On & On" (Blu Mar Ten Remix)
Motive One - "Cosmik" (also plays the intro of Cedar - "Equinox")
Seba & Lo-Tek - "Universal Music"
Personelle - "Rebound" (Nookie Remix)
DJ Die - "Reincarnation"
PHD & The Funky Technicians - "Above & Beyond"
Poets of Thought - "Samba for JC"
Blu Mar Ten - "Adrift on Deep Water"
Big Bud - "Mystique"
Intense - "Flashback"
Nookie - "The Breeze"
Blu Mar Ten - "Slipstream"
Intense - "Eastern Promise"
LTJ Bukem - "Cosmic Interlude" [Cut by TH-cam]
Poets of Thought - "The Rhyme Goes On"
Nookie - "The Breeze" (outro) & Blu Mar Ten - "Global Access" (intro)
Blu Mar Ten - "Global Access" (continued)
Rollercone - "Fictions"
Justice & Tertius - "Essential 4 Life"
PFM - "The Western" feat. MC Conrad [Muted by TH-cam]
I know this is already uploaded, and youtube/ingrooves will cut a load of tunes, but this is a great upscaled copy - big thanks to couchtripper for making it look so much better🙏
BBC Two, October 12th 1997
This 1997 BBC documentary about drum & bass DJ and producer LTJ Bukem follows him as he travels around the US on tour without a work visa. Taking place in the late 90s when Bukem’s smooth drum & bass sound was very much in the ascendant, he’s accompanied by various members of the Good Looking crew and their bulldog of a manager Tony Fordham. Bukem is the star DJ but Fordham is the star of the documentary. He’s a down-to-earth, geezer of a manager, old beyond his years, who ambles through the film trying to get his shirts ironed by hotel staff who don’t understand English. He delivers many great lines; when asked for the reasons why he wouldn’t discuss Bukem’s album project, he memorably responds: “We’re not prepared to discuss what we are and aren’t doing with his album because we are very, very secretive about it”.
#Ir-on-ing
Ah Tony, the David Brent of jungle
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Had me in stitches, quality 👌😆🤣
The genre is intelligent, atmospheric drum and bass not jungle!!
When I was an exchange student in Japan in 1997, I saw LTJ and Conrad and some others I can't recall at a show at Bayside Jenny. At around 0400 I went outside for some air, in the best mood, overwhelmed a bit, really, just needed some cool winter air and a sit down. Some other white dude came and sat and chatted me up, he was their tour manager for the Japan tour. It was not the asshole type I WANNA SUE THIS SHOP fucker at the start of this, a much cooler guy. Then LTJ and another guy came out and sat down and I was like whoa man seriously? Just bullshitted for five minutes, shook hands and they went back inside. I moved to Japan permanently in 1999, and those few minutes are still some of the absolute best I've spent here. Decades later, thank you so much!
R.I.P Conrad, classic footage here remember watching this back then , fantastic insight
Saw Bukem live in Perth Australia last year....he was smashing out classic rollers for 2 hours
Thank you algorithm, I needed this .
25 years of age watching this, absolute goosebumps. The music, the people (and character of said people), the clothes, the way things were done back then. We really are regressing in this day an age aren't we. Clubs and festivals closing/dropping like flies all across the UK, music made and played is shite with no soul and then you look at this and it hits you and makes you realise what once was.
Lovely post mate.. I feel like that too, im 56..
It’s not just in England, but it’s the entire world that’s becoming increasingly strict, & invasive.
The biggest dilemma in England, is that there are so many laws & rules to ‘protect’ people. This includes strict volume restrictions in nightclubs that specifically aim themselves towards British genres which have their roots in Dub (which is where the characteristic of 30-70hz Sub-Bass frequencies originate from.)
Some of these laws were genuinely made out of wanting to protect people.
Too many of the laws were made due to people complaining about the noise, after moving to an area within an area of a nightclub. These were the most notorious & widespread through media. They should never have been passed. (Too many cases of residents with ‘friends’ in the local government council.)
The rest of these strict laws/regulations, are made to prevent people from suing. This threat of suing is the most terrifying, because we do not want to become like the U.S. where citizens can sue for financial reasons, hidden behind some bullshit health reason that clearly takes the piss out of common sense (“You damaged my ears after I went to Fabric every Friday for 10 years!”) This is causing more & more laws, security & ruining the freedom for yourself, I, & everyone else who has the right approach.
Just as a last thing to think about…It’s something I’ve experienced many times in conversation:
When citizens of The newly dissolved Soviet Union first arrived to emigrate, or went on holiday to Western countries: All they’d heard before they arrived, was the freedom you had in a Capitalist society, & were very excited to experience it.
They were very shocked to find that they weren’t allowed to park their car where they wanted, & in some cases they’d even have to pay to park!
They went to go fishing, but then they were soon told that they needed to buy a license, which was very expensive for their low wages at that time.
When they wanted to watch the football, they were shocked that you had to have a season ticket, a membership, & the tickets were only affordable at the top clubs by the few, rather than the many.
Im sure you’re switched on enough to realise they weren’t saying that Socialism was better, but those three examples I’ve mentioned are absolutely tiny compared to the lack of freedom we have now compared to the 90’s.
It would be nice to just not always be so tightly controlled & surrounded by overkill amounts of security & police when you go to these events to enjoy yourself.
The logical answer to this, is to attend squat raves in Zone 5 London instead, but those places are just too far the other way. I used to play out 90’s & 00’s Drum & Bass in my teens at these illegal raves. However, I don’t like to inhale second hand Crack Cocaine vapours all night, which smells a bit like someone smoking a sweetened powdered washing machine detergent, & I don’t like to dance with moody gangsters just standing at the side, in case something kicks off. We need to find a balance! ❤
@ facts & perspective!! I’d tend to agree on all the points you made man. Also just comes back to simple freedoms being eroded away over time as governance sticks its boot in on every walk of life.
From a music stand point, it perplexes me so much. Because everything is easy accessible and all the sounds are auto generated on the internet/ computer softwares you don’t get deep soulful music anymore.
Just seeing that small glimpse of LTJ in the studio and the sounds he was making makes you realise how far we’ve gone away from true creative application instead opting for quick fixes and it’s only gonna get worse here on out unless someone or some people stand up for the values, traditions and standard set by the music in that era.
I appreciate you taking the time out to reply🤝
Should see Jah Shaka sound system
th-cam.com/video/t-eOt2uEeTE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=8QWWZUlycxiDUvU-
Fucking great job on the upscaling on this mate ! One of my favourite documentaries of all time as you know. Conrad is still hillarious on this, still makes it all the more sad he is no longer with us. The music lives on !!
I remember watching this when it was first on the BBC. Was already a massive fan then, went to progression Sessions in Brixton and Hammersmith mid 90s and GLR has always been special to me all this time. Great to see this remastered so well. Never seen the 90s look so good on TV. More early rave footage needs this treatment.
Thank you for uploading this. 🙌 The EARTH comps are still my favorite from this era.☺
The documentary is a national treasure
GOD I feel old now, the days of listening to pirate radio trying to find that rave, driving the wrong way on a motorway hard shoulder to get to the field when your mate took the wrong exit, then spending the week with your headphones in at work listening to D&B wishing for Friday again..
all without mobiles or internet :)
It’s like watching open university on acid
@@Bubba-hl6wb Been there, done that
Great snapshot in time
Loved this so much. Thank you for bringing it! Made me remember the great times with the BEST music and UNFORGETTABLE friends I was with and wow, almost let out a WIMPER! FUCK - thank you!!
Brilliant doc been looking for this thank you ❤️
Bukem legging it to the club with record boxes... i dont miss having to carry them 😂
Great documentary, love Bukem.
I've always shouted LTJ was 4+ years ahead of any other DnB artist back in early 90's. Tracks like Music and Demons Theme featured on mixtapes back in 92.. Sure Logical progressions Vol1 didn't release til 95/96? Also, 13+ Litres of unleaded for £8! Oh my dayz, we've lost our way. I'm all nostalgic, Luv this vid X
In many ways LTJ Bukem was drum and bass out of all the early jungle tracks his were the most reflective of the later sounds in the scene
he was good a sampling techno records
IRON ING SERVICE
I-ON-ING
No i hav ent ..
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So glad I had google translate when I went to Japan 😂
such a fucking tool
This is bloody brilliant ❤
Thank you so much for this! This means so much! ❤❤❤
What I was wondering all these years is what's Tony playing at 7:42?
Blackthorne! Rad game, worth checking out. SNES back in the day.
@@cshft Thank you!
‘I-ron-ing’
IRONING SERVICE!
Pure Partridge
Leaving in the ident card was a ballsy move
or a mistake! 🙃 i've just cut it out 🙏
:D
For a moment, I thought this was a DnB version of Spinal Tap
it is 😉😄
OW MUCH TO SEW EM? BLADDY MAG
Danny and Conrad played receptive visions in coventry myself and neil trix promoted those splendid gigs in the midlands coventry
It’s 30th anniversary soon
Will be in touch ..
Back to Lukes after the gig?.
Yes terrific evening danny and Conrad’s gentlemen of music 👍
I-R-O-N’IN-NIN-FACKIN-BAWD!! 😂Tony shld have his own show
Man is so good. Was and is there anymore?!?
theres this th-cam.com/video/UUWZHX3HRUI/w-d-xo.html
WOW
21:48 - tbf to him there has been D&B classical in recent years so he wasn’t far wrong with his monkey tennis style pitch to the guys at Sony…
13:15 She's the sworn enemy of the "we need jungle" guy
🔥 my thoughts exactly
taht times!!!!
Irony service?
Is Tony for real or is this comedy? I genuinely can't tell!
Yes, that's for real.😂🤣
He is 4REEEEEEEL!
Any way to fix the sound for the last two minutes?
was this a mocku-mentary??
#BringBackTheCrossFader
Anyone else here from Vital distribution?
so what he say at the end ? what tracks are missing/muted ? what a great era that was
thats the western tune at the end it mutes unfortunately, youtube always blocks that one
@@CreativeRepublic Yeah, they really pissed PFM off for some reason, probably didn't get paid like the others.
This is a story about MAGIC ❤
13:27
whats tony up to now
Whats the tune at 8:45 ?
Seba & Lo-Tek - "Universal Music"
Tune ID 46:52 ?😂
did that airplane have flashback? holy shit
Must have virgin, they had those video games
Whats the tune at 3:10 ? 😮
its Erykah Badu - On & On (Blu Mar Ten remix) th-cam.com/video/-FkIPqQEjxw/w-d-xo.html
@CreativeRepublic thank you so much dude
Horrible guy managing them..
Yeah bit of a bellend but funny with how chill all the other guys are though
Shifty rat of a man. Lots of shady contracts and artists getting screwed back then. Pulled bukem out of a hole, but had everyone over in the process.
@@badlefthook624 Yeah, that tax bill from Logical Progression messed things up in the early days.
I love the scene of everyone outside the nightclub still partying. Everyone genuinely loving the music and loving being n each others presences. No smart phones, no materialism, no arguments…..Nowadays it’s like everybody’s minds have been poisoned by something …..
A knob who says mate every 2mins and swears too much!! 😂