Shoutout to h0ffman, in my opinion the best contemporary junglist on olschool hardware. His 8-Bit Jungle music disk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--J66FY7qro
The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Mixing and production are worlds better Long gone are the days of "shoes in the dryer" mixes where guys were just slamming two DATs together with no pitch control. Sadly, I think we've gotten to the point of those tight mixes being less of the skill of the DJ and the result of software. With everything being done on laptops with cool software, I really wonder how many DJs are even mixing and just performing while a…
99.99999% of DJs have been performing a premade mix since iPods have become popular. The knob twiddling DJs are hilarious. Ukraine, oddly, seems to be pumping out tons of attractive women dancing off beat behind setups that aren’t even powered on half the time on YouTube. I enjoy the mixes in the background while working and occasionally watch some footage for the laughs. Shake it if you’ve got it.
As always, it depends on what style you're talking about. For mainstream EDM? Sure I won't fight your figure. But for underground techno (among many others), you're delusional if you think the majority of djs play pre-recorded mixes.
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#233As someone who was so non-conformist in the 90s that he refused to listen to the music for non-conformists, I am constantly surprised that jungle doesn't sound the way it's named. Every time I expect EDM with Afro-Caribbean percussion, like bongos and steelpans and marimbas, realize it's nothing like that and promptly forget what jungle sounds like until the next revelation.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's still plenty of fresh underground music and the 'kids' are doing just fine. Yeah there's loads of mainstream garbage out there, but there always was. The main difference is that this stuff was being invented, whereas most electronic music now is derived from those early 90s invented genres, but even saying that there's still plenty of creativity. There's a night in London called Cartulis (which is usually at…
I didn't intend someone taking away from that no fresh music was being made. I simply said that the parties of old are no longer happening, so that experience isn't available to them. I'm constantly listening to new music, and I've come up with lots of new tracks that will make a helluva set list, one day. Problem I have is only owning 1200s, and none of the gear to let those drive digital files. My discretionary fun…
Probably depends where you are.
Here in Western Australia there still seems to be a “Bush Doof” party scene. I’m way to old to know the details of that though.
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#235Thank you for putting this together. For a certain generation this resonates strongly. For me in the mid to late 90's getting into coding and hacking assembly while listening to and coding underground music in trackers were huge influences that have had their impact on the trajectory of my life and my social circle.
P.S. Let's hang out )
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm interested in a lot of subculture music, and it really isn't there like it was for the most part. Most families of music seem to have stagnated or regressed. The early 90s gangster rap is definitely superior to mumble rap/emo rap, the 90s IDM/jungle/trance is superior to modern EDM/house/trap and the pop mainstream now is just garbage compared to the the mainstream from the late 80s/90s. Mixing and production are…
> Modern metal is amazing compared to the stuff from the 90s though. Eh, I've still got a lot of time for 80s/early 90s thrash. Megadeth mostly, it must be said.
I still enjoy the trve kvlt black metal like Darkthrone, Burzum, Mayhem, so it's mostly the early 90s for me.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
> that era was so raw and fresh, the future was being invented right there! Very happy days I've been told by several Gen-Z that they've never been to a "rave", and I feel sorry for them. In my town, we had quite the underground scene, but then times changed and it is so much smaller now. Now, "kids" just call it all EDM instead of the specific genre that we know and love.
I'm 48 and I still DJ. The kids are fine. The underground scene is still real. D&B is just jungle 14 BPM faster.
>D&B is just jungle 14 BPM faster.
Nah.
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#238Jungle instantly reminds me of Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things from 1996 Tundra is a masterpiece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G01DKEig14
aaaah, seeing someone recommend a squarepusher album on hn makes my brain mush.
I can recommend more if you like and of course the Chris Cunningham video https://youtu.be/MWCSw_cNxKc
Not sure I would class it as jungle though.
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#239We can't accept drum and bass we need jungle I'm afraid.
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#240I'm a bit surprised, given the mention of other Dreamcast games, that there's no mention of Airforce Delta's soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR7C-9laJbs&list=PLbPd0JMiEH... AFD's soundtrack is interesting because it tends to be superficially EDM-ish but still pulls in that jungle influence. Track 2 on that playlist is a perfect example: you have a very standard drum beat front and center, but you also hav…
Just listened to the Buck Bumble soundtrack and that is very much garage not jungle.