# Shy FX & UK Apache — Original Nuttah Shy FX & UK Apache’s Original Nuttah (1994) appears on 6 of our lists — Drum and Bass, 1994, Bass Weight, The Waxonia Desk — 160, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, highest at No. 2 in Drum and Bass. Every verdict, in full. - **Released:** 1994 - **Label:** SOUR - **On:** Drum and Bass, 1994, Bass Weight, The Waxonia Desk — 160, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred - **Updated:** 2026-08-29 - **Artist:** [Shy FX & UK Apache](https://waxonia.com/artist/shy-fx-and-uk-apache/) - **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/shy-fx-and-uk-apache--original-nuttah/ ## What 6 lists say ### No. 2 in [Drum and Bass](https://waxonia.com/genre/drum-and-bass/) Jungle's national anthem. Ragga vocal, air-horn, and a breakdown that still empties the bar and fills the floor thirty years on. Nothing else sounds this much like a specific place and year. ### Picked by [1994](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-ninety-four/) The other direction jungle took in the same twelve months, and the more influential one on the street. Thirty years later it is still the record a British MC has to know, which is the only test of load-bearing that matters. ### Picked by [Bass Weight](https://waxonia.com/theme/the-desk-bass-weight/) The sound system and the sampler stop being separate traditions. A ragga vocal over an Amen break at 170 BPM, and nobody involved thought the combination needed explaining. ### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — 160](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-160/) The crowd-pleaser, and included as the awkward one. A set built on this is a different set from one built on the other five, and both of them are honest. ### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-ghosts/) Jungle at the exact moment the sound system and the sampler stopped being separate traditions. Everything Kingston built into a rhythm arrives here at twice the speed with none of it lost. ### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/) A ragga vocal over an Amen break at 170 BPM, with nobody involved thinking the combination needed explaining. Britain's two inheritances, fused without ceremony. ## Analysis 8 sections, the first drop of 5 at 0:32, 13% of the way in. - **Dynamic range:** 8.2 dB — moderate range, typical of a modern master - **Length:** 4:07 - `0:00` A · **intro**, instrumental — opens the record below its own average energy - `0:11` A · **build** (bar 5), instrumental — energy and brightness climbing without a break — playing: vocals, other - `0:33` B · **peak** (bar 16), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: bass, vocals - `1:13` C · **peak** (bar 34), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, vocals - `2:04` D · **breakdown** (bar 58), sung — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning — playing: drums, bass, vocals - `2:38` C · **peak** (bar 74), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, vocals - `3:11` B · **peak** (bar 90), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: bass, vocals - `3:23` A · **outro** (bar 95), instrumental — the closing fall — playing: drums, bass **Drops** at 0:32 (bar 16), 1:18 (bar 37), 2:14 (bar 63), 2:37 (bar 74), 3:33 (bar 100). A drop is a moment, not a stretch. **What is playing.** Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names. - **drums:** the drum kit, separated from the mix - **bass:** the bass part, separated from the mix - **vocals:** the voice, separated from the mix - **other:** everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings Measured from the YouTube master on 2026-08-29. Section labels describe how the energy moves, not musical form. Anything we were not confident enough to state is omitted rather than hedged. ## Listen [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Shy%20FX%20%26%20UK%20Apache%20Original%20Nuttah) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sxbekgL4w7w) --- Hand-curated by Waxonia. We host no audio; all links point to streaming platforms.