Jumpin Jack Frost

Nigel Thompson (born 29 May 1967), better known as Jumpin Jack Frost, is a British jungle and drum and bass DJ and record producer.[1][2]

Jumpin Jack Frost
Birth nameNigel Thompson
Also known asLeviticus
Born (1967-05-29) 29 May 1967
OriginBrixton, London, UK
GenresJungle, Drum and bass
Occupation(s)DJ, record producer
Years active1989–present
LabelsV Recordings, Philly Blunt, Formation
Websitehttps://jumpinjackfrost.com/

Biography

Frost was born in Brixton, London, and after a troubled youth, started to discover music through local sound system 'dances' and then nights such as Soul II Soul at the Africa Centre.[2]. He first started DJing at 18, playing funk and hip hop before the acid house scene arrived and he played at the Carwash nights in the late 1980s with Grooverider, Bryan Gee, and Fabio.[2] As a resident at The Fridge in Brixton, he played alongside Paul 'Trouble' Anderson and Evil Eddie Richards. He also hosted a show on the Brixton-based pirate radio station Passion FM which later became Lightning FM.[2] From here, he would DJ at all the large raves up and down the country including Dreamscape, Telepathy, The Edge, and One Nation.

His friendship with Bryan Gee would lead to both forming the celebrated drum and bass label V Recordings in 1993, and signing artists such as Roni Size, DJ Die, and Krust.[2] In 1994, Frost would produce one of the jungle scenes most seminal anthems in Burial, under the alias of Leviticus, released on the V Recordings sub-label Philly Blunt.[2][3][4] The track was later picked up by FFRR and upon its wider release in March 1995, debuted at No. 6 in the UK Dance Single Chart[5] and peaked at No. 66 in the UK Singles Chart.[6]

During this time, Frost would also host a show on Kiss 100, London which continued until 2001.[4] He would plays some regular guest slots on Centreforce around 2007-2009. Frost returned to radio in 2012 co-hosting the drum and bass show on Mi-Soul alongside DJ Bailey.[7]

Through writing his autobiography published in 2017, Frost has in the last few years increasingly spoken up about mental health issues.[8][9]

Discography

Singles & EPs
  • Jumping Jack Frost EP (F Project, 1993)
  • Underworld (Osmosis/Pornography) EP (Formation Records, 1994)
  • Burial (as Leviticus) (Philly Blunt//FFRR, 1994)

Mix compilations
  • DJ Randall & Jumping Jack Frost - MixMag Live 15 (MixMag, 1994)
  • Big, Bad and Heavy Part Three (Chronic, 2012)
gollark: I've heard it's a bit unpolished.
gollark: Nuclearcraft makes meltdowns just result in the reactor turning into a pile of corium, so it's nicer but not too easy.
gollark: Anyway, I'll assemble a modpack and hopefully have it up by this evening.
gollark: There are many things in GTCE for which you need one weird rare metal/gem once then never again, from my JEI checking.
gollark: "Why do I have tetrahedrite? What *is* tetrahedrite? I'll just check JEI... it's copper ore, but I need 5000 GTCE machines to use it."

References
  1. "Jumpin' Jack Frost - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  2. Thompson, Nigel & Woods, Andrew. Big, Bad and Heavy. Music Mondays, 2017.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Bradley, Lloyd. Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital. Profile Books, 2013.
  4. "Dubwise Vinyl #013 Leviticus 'Burial'". Testpressing.org. 3 July 2020.
  5. "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40 (19 March 1995 - 25 March 1995)". Official Charts Company.
  6. "LEVITICUS - full Official Chart History - Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company.
  7. "Mi-Soul Presenter Jumping Jack Frost". Mi-Soul.
  8. Carl Loben (12 September 2019). "Jumpin Jack Frost is breaking the stigma around mental health". DJ Mag.
  9. "Jumping Jack Frost: "I'm at peace with myself after all these years" - Drum&BassArena". Drum & Bass Arena. 31 May 2017.

Further reading
  • Frost (with Woods, Andrew), Big, Bad and Heavy, Music Mondays, 2017
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