Push the Button: Navigator, Mad Sam & Benny Page Blow the Bloody Doors Off With “Detonator”
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- 28/10/2026
In The Italian Job, Michael Caine’s Charlie Croker surveys the smoking wreck of a bullion van and delivers the most famous telling-off in British cinema: “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” His explosives expert had gone a touch overboard. Navigator, Mad Sam and Benny Page have done the same thing with “Detonator” and I couldn’t be happier about it. The doors went first, then the walls, then the postcode and the track kept going until the planet was bust wide open.
“The doors went first, then the walls, then the postcode.”
This is Drum and Bass in its Jungle skin, bass so heavy it needs its own planning permission, with a soundboy-style MC delivery riding the top. That sound system approach, where the mic is a weapon and the crowd is the target, is the DNA of everything these two have built their names on. The weight lands in your chest before your brain catches up and then the vocal arrives to finish the job.
“Bass so heavy it needs its own planning permission.”
Navigator needs little introduction in these pages. He’s been on the mic since sound system days in 1979, joined Unity Sound in 1985 and stood at the centre of Kool FM when jungle hit its peak in 1993 and 1994. Over four decades later he’s still the voice people call when they want the real thing, whether that’s Killer Hertz‘s “Killa Man Jaro” or Jamie Ross-Hulme‘s HYPER documentary. Mad Sam’s name keeps turning up where the Ragga Jungle underground runs thickest, from Tempest’s “Lighters Up” on Deep In The Jungle Records to DJ Hybrid‘s “Getting Lit” and Scuffed‘s “Warn Dem“. Put them together and you get two people who understand exactly what a Jungle tune is supposed to do.
“If you only roll with originators and you like your bass laden, this is for you.”
Benny Page belongs in that conversation. The British DJ and producer has spent years building a sound that links Jungle and Drum and Bass with Reggae, Dub and Dancehall. He broke through with “Turn Down The Lights” on Shy FX‘s Digital Soundboy imprint, then launched his own label, Dub Shotta, in London. That sound system sensibility has followed him into everything since, from “Champion Sound” with Jamaican dancehall artist Assassin to collaborations with MC Spyda and Sweetie Irie and he’s no stranger to Navigator‘s company on the mic. With “Detonator” he brings Navigator and Mad Sam onto his own label and the heavyweight production and ragga-rooted energy that have defined his career find a natural home.
“Push the button and blow the bloody doors off.”
If you only roll with originators and you like your bass laden, this is for you. “Detonator” is out now on Dub Shotta Music.
Push the button and blow the bloody doors off.
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