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What's up Guestlisters, here I am once again with another champion. I with the man, David Boomah - what's happening dawg, you good? I'm good, very well! Good to have you here player, how's life? It's hectic, really turbulent - there's so much going on it's hard to keep a handle of everything. But I'm still here trying to promote good music and pushing the vibes. How would you describe your current state of mind? I'm a little disheartened, not gonna lie. I feel like I'm on a treadmill and not really getting to the levels that I wanna get to. So I'm optimistic, but reservedly optimistic. So it's like the treadmill of life that every bodies on.It is, we all go through it. I'm no different, I'm not special I'm just a guy like everyone else. I have to do something that I enjoy and something that it's not just me benefiting from. Money's money - you don't need it. We need to feel happy, like we're achieving something. I think those things are more important than money. The music's strong, If anybody doesn't know, I'm sure they'll be a few people who need to go back into the history books. If they were, where should they start? They'd have to go back to about 1995 to get a real good understanding of where I'm coming from. That was when jungle was at it's peak, at that stage I'd already been doing music from childhood. What were you doing before then? I was doing dancehall. I grew up in Jamaica, I was there for 10 years from the age of 9 till 19 and was obviously immersed in reggae music and dancehall culture. So you came over here at 19, where did you move to? Balham Tooting. I linked up with a guy called Ucap. We had a soundsystem and we just use to go and do house parties. That was in 1990. That was obviously a big time for music here in England. As a vocalist to come into the game with someone like UK Apache, that's coming right into the heart of the scene. At the time he was not massively known. 'Original Nutta' hadn't come out yet. I linked up with Apache in 1990, that's how I was introduced to jungle, before that I had no idea. So when you came and saw the jungle, what was your first impression? I thought that it was mad! I couldn't really relate to it. The riddims and basslines have that kind of reggae vibe, but the drums are going completely nuts! It took a couple of songs for me to really get it. One of those songs was 'I'm A Junglist' by Congo Natty and the other one was 'Sound Murder' by Remarc. When I first heard these two tunes the light came on - jungle is wicked, I love this! Is this before 'Original Nutta'? Yeah, this is all before 'Original Nutta'. First of all, Apache was introduced to Shy through our manager. He hooked up with Shy and they did 'Original Nutta' and that just blew up the whole scene. Apache said to Shy, why don't you do a tune with my singer? So we did a tune called 'We Run Tings'. It was out in 1995 and went to number 1 after about two weeks of its release date. Number 1 of what? I'm not trying to trick anyone, I've never had a national number 1 - it's always been underground. To date I've had 14 number 1's undergound. Still, it's like this is the number 1 of the moment right? Yeah, at the time we had Choice FM and Commander B. But these guys were playing your tunes yeah? Yeah, if you wanted to hear the jungle top 10 you had to listen to Commander B and Choice. It was number 1 on Choice for quite a This guys been around since early. Working with some of the biggest names in the game, the singer has been focusing on his music more these days, dropping the first multi-genred album of V Recs, and opening a new label Forward Ever. It was only right to get him down to Guestlist HQ to talk all things Boomah with the man himself! INTERVIEW: DAVID BOOMAH Oshi | Guestlist 42 ISSUE 88 / 2016 DRUM & BASS