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Recording for the influential Suburban Base label, breakbeat pioneer Jay D'Cruze produced several excellent early drum 'n' bass staples -- looking back to the heyday of rave even as they looked ahead to the jungle outbreak of the mid-'90s. After making friends at the Boogie Times shop in Romford, the teenaged D'Cruze debuted in 1993 with "World Within a World," released on the store's emerging imprint Suburban Base. The label soon led the way with the darker sound of hardcore-into-jungle thanks to releases by <a href="spotify:artist:2MnM5JbezlOuVYlfx61Qc6">DJ Hype</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7BVU0VCeUMAa18zDX5mOyh">Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:34BsYkwksRwsEikxJWx106">Krome & Time</a>. Recording with store-owner <a href="spotify:artist:6fByixASsmvYreo1nGqsyr">Danny Donnelly</a> as Boogie Times Tribe, D'Cruze released two darkcore touchstones: "Real Hardcore" and "The Dark Stranger," the latter anthologized on almost every early jungle compilation worth its salt. Two more classic singles, "Watch Out" and "Lonely," followed before a lengthy absence from the breakbeat scene during its prime crossover years. D'Cruze returned in 1997 with more singles for Suburban Base, <a href="spotify:artist:2MnM5JbezlOuVYlfx61Qc6">DJ Hype</a>'s True Playaz, and his own The Bomb label (co-owned with <a href="spotify:artist:1yEUbNPblSgJg3Zhk5Zets">Special K</a>). D'Cruze was one of only three Suburban Base artists to get the full-length treatment, with the 1995 LP Control. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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