tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post5885116317161371017..comments2024-03-29T01:47:59.171-07:00Comments on Energy Flash: Vocal Tune / the Top 7 jungle-D+B albums of all timeSIMON REYNOLDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-11932744299386218752017-02-09T06:34:57.716-08:002017-02-09T06:34:57.716-08:00I disliked Wormhole too, definitely sent the scene...I disliked Wormhole too, definitely sent the scene as a whole careering off in an altogether wrong direction, although I do have a fondness for the slightly later Matrix album on Virus, it's everything Wormhole should have been and has aged like whiskey whereas Wormhole aged like milk. Executive Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04494042466110024758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-9178708856017628522017-02-09T06:32:41.378-08:002017-02-09T06:32:41.378-08:00I think Jungle /' Drum & Bass has always b...I think Jungle /' Drum & Bass has always been a singles (and compilations) game but there are still a lot of people showing their ages here! Here are a few classic ones from the post 2005 era that I think stack up very well against the ones already mentioned, both considered as albums in themselves, as extrapolations of the original Drum & Bass blueprint, and as evolutionary departures in themselves. Everything there from the autumnal soul of Calibre's Second Sun album, to the Rephlex reissued Drumfunk cacophony of Macc & dgoHn, to the timbral excursions of DAAT's HVAC lp, to the dancehall / footwork / jungle / whatever you are having yourself hybrids of the Richie Brains LP. I don't think it is possible to seriously argue that great albums in Drum & Bass were a product of a short five year stretch in the 90s tbh, especially when you consider how similar the veins of sources being mined by many of those albums were in hindsight. <br /><br />Breakage - This Too Shall Pass <br />Calibre - Second Sun <br />dBridge - The Gemini Principle <br />Naphta - Long Time Burning<br />Amit - The Never Ending <br />Loxy & Resound - Burning Shadows<br />DAAT - HVAC <br />Polska - 2nd Rate<br />Macc & dgoHn - Some Shit Sainnk <br />Alaska & Paradox - Isolationist <br />Clarity - Infinite<br />Richie Brains - Who Is Richie Brains? Executive Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04494042466110024758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-58291691348819647632017-02-09T05:14:05.490-08:002017-02-09T05:14:05.490-08:00Big buds is classBig buds is classAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13180299756788305829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-23945038815477159282017-01-29T12:36:50.519-08:002017-01-29T12:36:50.519-08:00Two great albums: how about Bay B Kane?
But I supp...Two great albums: how about Bay B Kane?<br />But I suppose some might say Guardian of Ruff isn't quite jungle yet, and that Survival Techniques isn't quite an album.<br /><br />In any case I rate both of them (as well as T-Power and D'Cruze) higher than Parallel Universe and BST. As for Timeless, the vinyl version is perhaps the one to go for, much more compact.<br /><br />Shy FX made an album which for some reason isn't the blast it should be.<br /><br />As for interlopers, Boymerangs Balance of the Force has something I think, and Mick Harris' first Quoit album is brilliant.taniniannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-68976732308252314402017-01-29T12:32:40.795-08:002017-01-29T12:32:40.795-08:00Two great albums: how about Bay B Kane?
But I supp...Two great albums: how about Bay B Kane?<br />But I suppose some might say Guardian of Ruff isn't quite jungle yet, and that Survival Techniques isn't quite an album.<br /><br />In any case I rate both of them (as well as T-Power and D'Cruze) higher than Parallel Universe and BST. As for Timeless, the vinyl version is perhaps the one to go for, much more compact.<br /><br />Shy FX made an album which for some reason isn't the blast it should be.<br /><br />As for interlopers, Boymerangs Balance of the Force has something I think, and Mick Harris' first Quoit album is brilliant.taniniannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-76709192441921948762017-01-26T23:14:17.546-08:002017-01-26T23:14:17.546-08:00I don't think DJ Hype has EVER released an alb...I don't think DJ Hype has EVER released an album. He's not the type I guess.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272602163575538912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-32541784551125172032017-01-26T21:25:27.344-08:002017-01-26T21:25:27.344-08:00PFM?
Dave Wallace?PFM?<br />Dave Wallace?SIMON REYNOLDShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-63377239212407908252017-01-26T21:24:29.270-08:002017-01-26T21:24:29.270-08:00Spring Heel Jack did two or three good albums that...Spring Heel Jack did two or three good albums that i remember liking but equally don't remember much about.<br /><br />I think the Nookie suffered just a bit from being too pretty and also the best-of factor<br /><br />i don't remember D'Cruze's album. Marvellous Cain I have somewhere but it didn't lodge in the memory.<br /><br />Plug i think of as belonging to that parallel stream of drilly IDM. Loved it as first and then decided it was an excuse for people to think they'd engaged with jungle without actually engaging with it.<br /><br />So disliked Wormhole, i must confess.<br /><br />Thought of a couple examples of potential great album-makers who went too far into the musicality thing by the time they got round to it - both called Danny funnily enough. Breaks and Bukem. (The Bukem solo album,when it finally showed up, was awful). <br /><br />Okay chaps - here's another question, who could have / should have made a great single-art, non-anthology D&B album but never did get around to it?<br /><br />Hidden Agenda (or did they in fact)? <br />SS? <br />Dillinja?<br />2 Bad Mice?<br /><br />And another question - who made two great ones? By my count, only Omni makes the gradeSIMON REYNOLDShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-69938599033233652652017-01-26T20:01:08.175-08:002017-01-26T20:01:08.175-08:00I'd put Nookie's Sound of Music up alongsi...I'd put Nookie's Sound of Music up alongside Music for the Next Millennium, though you may consider it a compilation. That is, both are good as albums, but they can't hold a candle to Parallel Universe, imho; completely original tracks, functions as a whole, almost a concept album. Black Secret Technology almost reached that height, with its similar cohesive, sci-fi feel. Both were more on the experimental side—a departure from the amen workouts the rest of the scene was pursuing. Jacob's Optical Stairway was stellar, as well.<br /><br />Speaking of experimental, I'd toss in Drum 'n' Bass for Papa. That one is up there with PU and BST for me, if not too far outside the scene.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05098731371686104166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-64203545798210631942017-01-25T22:07:46.135-08:002017-01-25T22:07:46.135-08:00Some rate T Power's Self Evident Truth Of An I...Some rate T Power's Self Evident Truth Of An Intuitive Mind. <br /><br />I think it was Mark Fisher who held Gun Talk by Marvellous Cain in high esteem, it's pretty good.<br /><br />Photek was always a bit problematic. It felt like he was an interloper and I'm saying that from Australia. He did have mad skills though.<br /><br />New Forms was the beginning of the end, couldn't stand it. It pretty much stopped me from following the nuum any further. Over 10 years later, after reevaluating speed garage, I realised that was a mistake.<br /><br />The Haunted Science is an underrated gem innit? and I pretty much agree with the rest.<br /><br />Tim 'Space Debris' https://www.blogger.com/profile/11182952223658140228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-20161445544761566842017-01-25T05:48:32.881-08:002017-01-25T05:48:32.881-08:00Marvellous Cain, Kemet.Marvellous Cain, Kemet.droidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06276962882532347259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-62057788710589733292017-01-24T00:35:15.033-08:002017-01-24T00:35:15.033-08:00In a way D & B parallels glam with only a hand...In a way D & B parallels glam with only a handful of great LPs but mainly a single's game.Tim 'Space Debris' https://www.blogger.com/profile/11182952223658140228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-55518790509055705692017-01-23T17:50:53.882-08:002017-01-23T17:50:53.882-08:00wormhole?wormhole?tomj210https://www.blogger.com/profile/10541129710233396230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-84958094645445238282017-01-23T06:01:02.139-08:002017-01-23T06:01:02.139-08:00Photek Modus Operandi
Calibre -Musique Concrète
Bi...Photek Modus Operandi<br />Calibre -Musique Concrète<br />Big Bud – Infinity + Infinitydadadrummerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02285138479455748428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-4080963161735921602017-01-23T03:07:31.867-08:002017-01-23T03:07:31.867-08:00D'Cruze's 'Control' is great! And ...D'Cruze's 'Control' is great! And mostly wank free.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272602163575538912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-30928226260433658422017-01-23T03:05:33.477-08:002017-01-23T03:05:33.477-08:00D'Cruze's 'Control' is great! And ...D'Cruze's 'Control' is great! And mostly wank free.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272602163575538912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-12680645473401558552017-01-23T03:03:01.285-08:002017-01-23T03:03:01.285-08:00I like to remember the Springheel jack LP at times...I like to remember the Springheel jack LP at times like these. No impact on the scene, but a proper deep jungle LP.droidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06276962882532347259noreply@blogger.com