Cat In The Bag Records, an Oldschool Jungle and Drum & Bass label based in NL with Tommy The Cat as the main man, featuring some of the best Jungle and DnB artists worldwide. Other labels from Cat In The Bag are Park Sessions, focussing on Atmospherical Jungle & DnB and Oldschool Shoes, focussing more on Hardcore Jungle, UK Hardcore & Rave. A vinyl label at heart but digital also available.

24 May 2025

Acid Forest 013 – Daytime Festival

Bosvreugd, Tilburg (NL)

06 June 2025

Cat In The Bag Jungle Sessions

Overtoom 301, Amsterdam (NL)

LATEST RELEASES

Park Sessions Digital Sunset Vibes Vol.4 by Tommy The Cat [How It Flows / Up Hill] & Dubtuneka [Rasta / Dubbin Bass]
Park Sessions LTD 01
Park Sessions LTD 01 - Sunset Vibes EP by Tommy The Cat [Sammie's Skate Store / Gelato / Lighthouse / Skatepark Days / 1994 / Slow Summer Night]
Park Sessions 11
Park Sessions 11 by Tommy The Cat [Island In The Sky /Shining Star], Starski [Erebus] & JDK [Changing]

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APRIL 3, 2025

All Crews International: Europe Part 2

Despite it’s UK origins, Jungle Drum & Bass fans quickly gathered across Europe as more producers, punters, DJs and dancers encountered the sound on the mainland.. and nowadays it’s no different!

In this All Crews International we chat to a few heads from Germany, Poland and the Netherlands about their love of all things Jungle Drum & bass.

Tommy The Cat

Tell our All Crews readers about your labels, Cat in the Bag Records and Old School Shoes…

Cat in the Bag/Oldschool Shoes/Park Sessions are dutch hardcore, jungle, and oldschool dnb labels both run by me (Tommy The Cat) since 2017.
Mainly focussing on oldschool jungle and DnB the labels come from the Lowlands (Netherlands) with Park Sessions more focused on atmospheric jungle.
The Label is Located in Nijmegen a town in the east of Netherlands.

 

What can listeners expect to hear from you, Tommy the Cat in the 25′?

The first release that is set is the new limited series on Park Sessions, this ep is called, Sunset Vibes it’s mostly a bit slower in bpm’s. I just sent out the new Cat in the Bag 015, this will be a split ep with me and Pastaman.
For both labels there are a lot more releases set, but for now it’s mainly these 2 releases.

 

As a label owner, what are some things you look for in tracks that are released on your labels?

For releases on both the labels, there is no blueprint, the track just needs to fit the release, it’s not even in a certain bpm. Above 170 bpm it gets tricky but mainly it’s all about vibes and feeling.

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Tommy The Cat

With energetic musical productions and killing it seamless behind the decks, Sammie a.k.a. Tommy The Cat is renowned for his technically explosive DJ style that never fails to makes the dance floor go boom with highly enthusiastic crowd.

Sammie van Cleef has been DJing since the mid-’90s, when he first discovered the fresh and thriving sounds of breakbeat, jungle and drum & bass. Operating under the alias Sam-C (and slight variations on it), he began playing and organizing events within the free party scene in his home country of the Netherlands and further afield too, bringing his crew’s soundsystem to abandoned warehouses and disused military spaces and other such prime raving sites. 

Over the years he has mainly been spinning drum & bass, jungle, free party tekno and acid core, hardcore and headed up the Dosis Decibel Record label. In 2018, however, Sammie started a mainly jungle Cat In The Bag Records label with alias Tommy The Cat. Since then, he’s been releasing beastly tearout worldwide junglism releases via the outlet, and alongside the likes of Coco Bryce, Tim Reaper, FFF, Duburban, AcidLab, MsDos, Subreachers, Msymiakos, Donnie Murdo, Junglefever and many more, while the following year he added other imprints, Park Sessions & Oldschool Shoes, to his repertoire.

Music production has remained the in-demand creative mainstay of Tommy The Cat’s abilities, including vinyl releases on labels such as Myor Massiv, PRSPCT, Vibes ’93, E-beamz, Unknown To The Unknown and Tuff Cuts. His dj and producer tactics are a mixture of Jungle, Oldschool DnB, Atmospherical Jungle and Oldschool Trip Hop.

Running a successful Cat In The Bag Jungle Sessions night at the OT301 in Amsterdam and bringing his Cat In The Bag sound to various venues across the Netherlands.

Tommy The Cat made several podcast guest mixes on Eruption Radio, Kings of the Amen, Vibes Promotion, PRSPCT radio, SeekSickSound, Rinse, Everyday Junglist & RaRaRadio and has been featured on the October 2020 DJ Mag edition as an emerging artist.

While constantly striving to innovate with his productions and DJ’ing, Tommy The Cat always looks to explore new musical territories and ideas, while relentlessly touring his compelling sound around Europe.

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