ROAR meets one of the DJs who helped shape the early rave scene in JUMPING JACK FROST for a typically frank chat with this larger-than-life personality.

In the first of three parts of this romping journey through his fascinating life, the jungle and drum and bass legend talks about how came from the streets where violence and robbery was a part of life, and was in and out of Her Majesty’s Pleasure before finding a home in the emerging rave scene – even though it was seen by many of his peers as ‘devil music’.

Frost – AKA NIGEL THOMPSON – was one of a number of DJs who came out of South London in the 1980s alongside FABIO & GROOVERIDER, and he talks about those exciting days, including the day he met his V RECORDINGS partner Bryan Gee while buying weed…and the rest is history!

Part 2, where Nigel discusses the time when jungle got dark and so did his life as he lost control to drug abuse before coming out the other side happier and healthier, is coming on WEDNESDAY, with the final part where he goes into some of the positive and negative aspects of the current DnB scene, is next FRIDAY.

Frost’s artwork today was drawn by DnB Illustrated. Check her out at https://www.instagram.com/dnbillustrated/

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