Recording
Mr Kirk's Nightmare
4hero
Independently chosen for2 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1990
- Label
- Reinforced
- On
- Drum and Bass and Dancing to Bad News
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Ranked No. 9 in Drum and Bass
Predates the genre proper and contains its DNA anyway: a sampled police death notification over hardcore breaks. The dread that jungle inherited starts here.
Picked by Dancing to Bad News
A sampled police officer telling a father his son is dead from an overdose, looped over hardcore breaks at a rave. The most brutal use of the manoeuvre anyone has attempted, and the reason jungle inherited dread along with the tempo.