Dance music of the 1990s largely rejected the simple, jovial, hedonistic approach to body movement that had ruled since James Brown invented funk music in the 1960s. Disco, techno and house had simply imported new technologies (both for rhythm and arrangements) into the paradigm of funk. The 1990s continued that process, one of the most important ideas to come out of Britain was jungle or drum & bass, a syncopated, polyrhythmic and frantic variant of house, a fusion of hip-hop and techno that relied on extremely fast drum-machines, epileptic breakbeats and huge bass lines.
Few genres of popular music underwent so many changes and reached such ambitious heights as jungle did. Within a few years, jungle musicians were already composing abstract and ambient pieces, integrating breakbeats with pop vocals, adopting jazz improvisation Thanks to ever more intricate beats and to free structures borrowed from jazz, jungle music rapidly became the foundation for a new kind of avantgarde music, pursued by the most austere of the genre's visionaries
Breaks aren't bleeps and he called techno and house shit.
Jacob Carter
He doesn't actually have an overall top 100, all his lists are by genre.
Nathan Edwards
All his lists are garbage except to find some obscure artists he dug up in order to maintain an image of eclectic, contrarian taste. That's the only purpose he serves. His writing is trite, obviously unresearched, dago shit.
Dominic Hernandez
He gave an Orbital album an 8/10.
Ian Davis
so? he's given hundreds of 8/10s.
not one bleep album has a 9/10.
Ryder Myers
he has a list of overall "profound" works or some shit and its mostly jazz and classical.
Hudson Stewart
How does one into 90s jungle and hardcore? Was it simply something that you had to be a part of to really understand, or is it possible to vicariously live through via music, reading, and documentaries like prog (to an extent ) is?
Luke Johnson
he put stockhausen over every rock album ever and klaus is hella bleeps
Asher Lopez
Stockhausen isn't bleep retard
Lincoln Foster
house is my least favorite genre
i put it below k pop and mariachi cover bands
Nolan Sullivan
i doubt i've ever read a more ignorant comment in my life
i emailed scaruffi my album to see how he'd rate it and he replied to me within 3 hours "not time right now maybe in the future, life is too short"
Jaxon Campbell
what the fuck are you talking about Stockhausen didn't write bleeps
he wrote elektoniche musik
Noah Bennett
you can still get into it like any genre, i dunno why would it be different
as a starting point you could grab a book or something. Energy Flash by simon reynolds is a good entry guide imo and you can easily find it as a pdf; once you get into some of the essential stuff then you can make your way via checking forgotten singles of the subgenres you like the most, labels, compilations and stuff
have fun
Zachary Russell
>music can only be listened to in albums the sooner you grow out of this mindset the better
Anthony Parker
>jungle or drum & bass (...) variant of house this doesn't sound accurate imo
