Uncle 22 - Your Love (Strictly Underground Records, 1994)
I nearly posted about Uncle 22 AKA Desmond Fearon back on day six of the DnB Advent Calendar with probably his best known track, '6 Million Ways To Die - Choose One', but then thought I'd save featuring him for today. Fearon was co-owner of the De Underground record store in Forest Gate and also resident engineer in the studio upstairs along with Cool Hand Flex, who he recorded with as Flex & Uncle and Dubwise II. He had a track on the original EP that featured Lennie De Ice's proto-jungle anthem 'We Are i.e.' so was there right at beginning of jungle. In fact he'd already had an album of acid house released back in 1989.
'Your Love' came out on Mark "Ruff" Ryder's Strictly Underground imprint. The mix of the tune above is actually Ryder's Funky Jungle Mix on the flip as I couldn't find the other mix on YouTube but you can hear audio of it over at Rolldabeats. The mixes aren't significantly different though with both featuring a vocal sample from Michael Prophet & Ricky Tuffy's 'Your Love': "Your love is all I want baby, your love is all I need... phenomenon one" while Ryder's mix also adds Mad P's exclamations of "Jungle" from Top Buzz's set at Amnesia House's The Book Of Love event in June '92, sampled more extensively on DJ Taktix's 'The Way'. The vocals are combined with tearing Amen, a tough bassline, rapid fire hardcore synth stabs and sinister pads for an absolutely slamming tune.
Strictly Underground were a label who put out loads of compilations and you can find Ryder's mix of 'Your Love' on Hardcore Junglistic Fever Vol. 2. As well as the unmixed tune on the first disc it also leads off the first Megamix on the second disc from Randall with GQ on the mic. You can check that out below: