Jungle drum patterns.

1. 1960s

   1. 1969
      

      Amen, Brother

      The Winstons

      Root: G.C. Coleman's four-bar Amen solo, sped up, chopped and re-sequenced, became the backbone of jungle and drum & bass

2. 1990s

   1. 1990
      

      Mr Kirk's Nightmare

      4hero

      Reinforced breakbeat hardcore built on the Isley Brothers' Get Into Something break; a dark, sped-up rave template for jungle
   2. 1991
      

      Tribal Base

      Rebel MC feat. Barrington Levy & Tenor Fly

      Hardcore breaks under Barrington Levy's hook and ragga MCing; UK No. 20 and an early bridge from sound-system reggae to jungle
   3. 1991
      

      Landmark

      We Are I.E.

      Lennie De Ice

      Often named the first jungle record: a looping Amen break pushing a ragga-style sub-bass line, recorded back in 1989
   4. 1992
      

      Landmark

      Terminator

      Rufige Kru (Goldie)

      Darkcore cut credited with pioneering time-stretched, pitch-shifted breakbeats, so the drum loop itself phases like a lead line
   5. 1993
      

      Valley of the Shadows

      Origin Unknown

      Andy C and Ant Miles' RAM roller on edited Think breaks; a darkside-era staple, reissued as a single in 1996
   6. 1994
      

      Terrorist

      Renegade feat. Ray Keith

      Ray Keith's re-edited Amen under one of the first sampled Reese basslines; the Amen-plus-Reese blueprint of peak jungle
   7. 1994
      

      Landmark

      Original Nuttah

      UK Apache & Shy FX

      Shy FX's rapid-fire chopped breaks under UK Apache's ragga vocal; one of the first jungle tunes to reach the UK top 40
   8. 1994
      

      Inner City Life

      Goldie

      Soul-vocal jungle single (UK No. 39) that led into Timeless, one of the first drum & bass albums to reach the mainstream
   9. 1995
      

      Horizons

      LTJ Bukem

      Atmospheric roller that launched Looking Good: light, rolling breaks under ambient pads, the core of Bukem's intelligent style
   10. 1995
       

       Landmark

       Pulp Fiction

       Alex Reece

       Metalheadz single that popularised the sparse two-step break with Reese bass, moving drum & bass off full Amen rolls
   11. 1995
       

       Super Sharp Shooter

       DJ Zinc

       Hip hop/jungle fusion with a bouncing bass riff over chopped breaks, widely cited as a founding jump-up anthem
   12. 1997
       

       Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu (Two Swords Technique)

       Photek

       Surgically edited, precision-programmed breakbeats; UK No. 37 and a high point of cut-up drum programming in DnB
   13. 1997
       

       Brown Paper Bag

       Roni Size & Reprazent

       Jazzstep single (UK No. 20) from Mercury-winning New Forms: rolling breaks under a walking bassline played by a live band
   14. 1998
       

       The Nine

       Bad Company

       Techstep's stark two-step snare and distorted bass; Knowledge readers voted it the top drum & bass track of all time in 2008
   15. 1998
       

       Landmark

       Wormhole

       Ed Rush & Optical

       Title track of the album credited as the first neurofunk LP; drums cut into single hits and re-sequenced at original pitch

3. 2000s

   1. 2002
      

      LK (Carolina Carol Bela)

      DJ Marky & XRS feat. Stamina MC

      Brazilian-sampling roller on a light two-step break; UK No. 17 and a reference point for soulful, liquid drum & bass
   2. 2005
      

      Tarantula

      Pendulum

      High-energy, rock-weight drum programming; a UK Dance No. 1 that previewed Pendulum's Hold Your Colour album

4. 2020s

   1. 2022
      

      Baianá

      Nia Archives

      Jungle-revival single setting chopped breaks against a Brazilian choir sample and samba/baile funk flavour

Press play to loop each record's busiest two bars. Patterns are machine-detected from the recordings, not verified transcriptions.