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Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Post by gustavopezzi »

samatman wrote: post #104
gustavopezzi wrote: post #8

Author here. Thanks for sharing the blog post on HN; it was a nice surprise to see it in the first page.

You have gotten the history here dead wrong: > The techno scene originated in Germany, reached the UK, and it was later associated with the Chicago & Detroit EDM scene in America. Techno was invented in Detroit, house music in Chicago. Germany like techno. In no sense whatsoever did they invent or originate it.

Thanks for the heads up. It's funny how we encounter different sources telling us different things about the history of these subgenres. I'll go back and review/expand that paragraph soon.

Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Post by gustavopezzi »

pacaro wrote: post #168
evanelias wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd argue the article gets the history of jungle itself quite wrong too... there's no mention of breakbeat hardcore, no mention of Shut Up and Dance collaborating with Ragga Twins, etc. Fabio and Grooverider are seminal figures to the scene, yes, but they did not originate the sound.

The sidebar about pirate radio, while factually correct, seems to heavily imply that pirate radio started in the jungle era, but Radio Caroline was broadcasting in the 60s

Hi there. That was probably just a small mistake on how I tried to explain the paragraph or the poor choice of words/terms I used. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

dylan604 wrote: post #47
louthy wrote: post #16

If anyone's interested and wants to hear more, I have a mix of 92/93 era Jungle [1] Some rough mixes here and there (especially the first one) because it was live from a NYE event. But it suits the style of music, that era was so raw and fresh, the future was being invented right there! Very happy days :) 1) DJ SS - Intro 2) Higher Sense - Cold Fresh Air 3) Deep Blue - The Helicopter Tune 4) Roni Size - Time Stretch…

> 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 just not the party type

Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Post by PawgerZ »

jamal-kumar wrote: post #194
stackghost wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ehhh, raves are definitely still a thing in Vancouver at least

I can second Vancouver, and will raise you any big city in the USA - most of Latin America as well. Only thing that changes as usual is regionally based music tastes, though I find that people actually dance a hell of a lot more outside the anglosphere Europe is a given but I hear Asia is popping off too. I have friends in Oceania who do some work around the scene. Really it's all over the world, people never stopped…

>I can second Vancouver, and will raise you any big city in the USA

I'll reraise you any decent size college town in the US as well.

Heck, I'm in Iowa and there's plenty of raves in the middle of nowhere here.

Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

Modified3019 wrote: post #46

There was a game called “SILENT THUNDER: A-10 TANK KILLER II” my father had in his collection that I’d ruffle through as a kid. While the gameplay (brutal flight sim) wasn’t that compelling to child me, it had a full soundtrack made of multiple genres that lives in my brain to this day, especially “Monk’s revenge”. In fact, I think it was setup so that you could put the disk in a CD player and have it play as an audi…

Lots of games in that era just put the game data as track 1 and then filled the rest of the disc with audio tracks, so that they could command the disc player to handle all playback for them

Rock raiders too

Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Post by docmars »

miek wrote: post #142

Jungle ramblings: -Can't forget Facing Worlds in Unreal Tournament 1999! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G6WPuss4 -Andy C will be in Los Angeles Nov. 28 (typically plays LA a few times per year) -Worth checking out: Modern DJs who mix DnB/jungle with "footwork" (musical genre), e.g. Sharelle https://m.soundcloud.com/iamsherelle -BBC Radio 1, Radio 6, and Rinse FM all have drum n bass shows and are available for free…

I was surprised Unreal Tournament didn't get a mention in the article — it's famous for its music! I fondly remember several of its tracks falling within this genre.

Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Post by CuriouslyC »

helboi4 wrote: post #249
rorytbyrne wrote: post #229

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> the 90s IDM/jungle/trance is superior to modern EDM/house/trap This is your own fault for going to EDM/house/trap parties. Go to better parties, then you'll find better music.

Fr. Don't know why you're getting downvoted. The bitter people in this comment section who think electronic music died in the 90s clearly wouldn't know a good club if it slapped them in the face and it shows.

I go to burns/festivals, that's what's typically on offer, don't blame me for society's lack of taste.

I enjoy Berlin minimal techno but it's not exactly popular.

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Post by miek »

TomK32 wrote: post #190
TacticalCoder wrote: post #144

In "Wipeout" on the original Playstation there's the famous "Firestarter" song by Prodigy. It's the, slowed down, amen break too I think: https://youtu.be/V_b5-RWOfMo EDIT: yup it's in TFA, facepalming myself.

A real turning point for The Prodigy turning it from a producer-driven dance act into a proper band with a lead singer. Flint created a job in the act for himself not once but twice.

His funeral was a proper sendoff .... to outer space, to find another race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfAEECqG9G8

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Post by wintermutestwin »

MivLives wrote: post #137
stackghost wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ehhh, raves are definitely still a thing in Vancouver at least

PNW in general. Seattle is for sure active. They're not even that hard to find if you go looking for them.

This comment would have be so useful to me if you could have at minimum dropped some breadcrumbs.

As an oldster who has only recently gotten into edm, I am clue free on where to begin finding anything underground and mainstream venues suck.

Re: The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Post by ftreader4350 »

gustavopezzi wrote: post #261
samatman wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have gotten the history here dead wrong: > The techno scene originated in Germany, reached the UK, and it was later associated with the Chicago & Detroit EDM scene in America. Techno was invented in Detroit, house music in Chicago. Germany like techno. In no sense whatsoever did they invent or originate it.

Thanks for the heads up. It's funny how we encounter different sources telling us different things about the history of these subgenres. I'll go back and review/expand that paragraph soon.

It seems quite silly to mention it, but the the phrase 'EDM' here really made me more upset than it possibly should. Call it 'House' genericlly, call it 'techno' generically, but please don't call it EDM generically, as that as many other's have mentioned is a sub genre coined way later to describe a bland watered down distant cousin of 'House' music. It really detracts from the great article in a Steve Buscemi with a skateboard kind of way.
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