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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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Post by snvzz »

jamal-kumar wrote: post #286
alt227 wrote: post #254

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This is awesome. I used to run a Jungle night, and once we booked Paradox to play. He brought his entire Amiga set up and we had to replace the decks with it for his set. He had to load each track from a floppy disk and it took like 2-3 mins whilst the beat of the previous track would play out and the crowd waited for the next track to load. Crazy seeing a whole dancefloor chilling waiting for a floppy disk to load u…

This is the trick now: https://www.ami64.com/product-page/gotek-usb-flash-drive-for...

The hardware is quite generic.

What's interesting is the firmware everyone uses, FlashFloppy[0].

0. https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy/wiki

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Post by wileydragonfly »

helboi4 wrote: post #248
wileydragonfly wrote: post #166

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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.

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Would love to hear the names of your unicorns…

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Post by wileydragonfly »

magic123_ wrote: post #232
wileydragonfly wrote: post #166

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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.

Ok, let’s see some links..

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Post by helboi4 »

wileydragonfly wrote: post #312
helboi4 wrote: post #248

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Would love to hear the names of your unicorns…

I'm not going spend my time collating links to help you when you say it like that. They're not unicorns. Nobody in the techno scene plays pre recorded sets and women are no more liable to do it than men. I'm sorry that you're uninformed and sexist. Maybe change your attitude a bit and we can talk.

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Post by markedathome »

vinceguidry wrote: post #298
imp0cat wrote: post #198

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I think this was also on the Mortal Kombat movie OST (another hidden gem from the 90's; not the movie, the soundtrack).

Did you ever listen to the More Kombat follow on? Most of the tracks were forgettable, but there was that one track Space Man by Babylon Zoo that still runs through my head every now and again.

The "Spaceman" track was used in a Levi's ad[1] which used the intro. Then everyone went out and bought the single, and rocketed it up the charts in a lot of countries. At the time there was much disappointment that the rest of the song was not like that intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTIrUXYLtpA

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Post by bookaway »

miek wrote: post #282
orthoxerox wrote: post #233

As 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.

While not a perfect match, Ragga Jungle is a subgenre that hits the afro carrib mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yiLR4IAByc

I asked in response to another comment[0] above somewhere but do you have any recommendations for more recent producers/djs on the ragga jungle sound?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136943

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Post by _kb »

71bw wrote: post #196
morkalork wrote: post #76

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Gentrification and moral panic killed warehouse parties and raves.

>Gentrification and moral panic killed warehouse parties and raves. With my experience as a Polish Gen Z member, gentrification has only made raves MORE popular in here in A.D. 2024. Bored kids out of good homes, eh...

That's always been the cycle. As key acts from any sub-genre are subsumed into increasingly polished, expensive, and bland, club nights, festivals, and tours that community will eventually bifurcate into a properly dodgy and fun underground again.

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Post by soylentcola »

helboi4 wrote: post #275
CuriouslyC wrote: post #267

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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.

Again. Going to a festival does not mean you're going to a good one. Most of the best music happens in clubs in the underground circuit anyway not at "burns", which sounds like the most gentrified, millenial techbro yuppie garbage I've ever heard and I'm unsurprised you're not finding the bleeding edge of underground rave music there. The key word is GOOD. Not that you just go places bro. You're clearly unsatisfied w…

To be fair, regional burns are basically Burning Man without the techbro yuppie contingent. A lot more randos, hippies, and weirdos. More like summer camp for grownups than a place to show off on IG or whatever people use these days.

*(Caveat, haven't been to one in the last 5 or 6 years so things may have changed. As always, "it was better next year!")

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Post by ikr678 »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #269
MivLives wrote: post #137

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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.

Follow artist socials, they will promote themselves at gigs. Search for your town name + edm genre on soundcloud, that may tell you the names of regular festivals,events and club nights from the set names. Follow said venue's socials, or regularly check their website for upcoming events.

Figure out who your local promoters are, & follow their socials also.

Go to a youth focused cafe or skate park, look at what event posters are being posted on the walls? Unsure if the kiddies still post bills for small events, honestly everything is on social media these days, and is where you should start once you've identified some names.

In my city, facebook is the most reliable way to discover events - we have very active promoters in the main '$city $genre scene' public fb groups.

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