METALHEADZ official photographer EDDIE OTCHERE was one of only a handful of people lucky enough to document the mid ’90s jungle scene from the inside. Hired by GOLDIE to photograph his label’s now infamous night at the Blue Note in Hoxton in the days before cameraphones, Otchere captured the good, the bad and the ugly of the exploding rave genre as it rapidly evolved into what we now know and love as drum and bass.

In this episode, Otchere – who has also snapped some of the most celebrated US rappers including BIGGIE SMALLS and the WU-TANG CLAN – takes ROAR: The ’90s Rave Podcast back to those exciting days cutting dubs and smoking joints with GROOVERIDER and co at the legendary Music House on a Friday afternoon, before coming together as a community and dancing all weekend to those same fresh tunes at a manor of sketchy London rave venues, often in the face of antagonism from an institutionally racist and corrupt Metropolitan Police.

Otchere’s brilliant photographs of the ’90s jungle scene feature in a new book, Who Say Reload, by PAUL TERZULLI, which sees top producers discuss their most famous tracks, and is out now on Velocity Press: https://velocitypress.uk/product/who-say-reload-book/

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