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Definitely worth a second listen. It was good
Not my cup of tea. Some interesting tunes but I'm not big on the drum and bass though.
oontz. repeat. 3 stars.
These beats move at a breakneck speed. I guess drum ‘n’ bass is dance music but, man, you could have a heart attack if you try to keep up with these songs. This is an epic album too. I broke it into chunks — two-plus hours is a lot when every song has more or less the same fast drum loop. I liked the songs without vocal hooks the most. Highlights: “Let’s Get It On,” “Mad Cat,” “Morse Code,” “Destination,” “Hi-Potent,” “Trust Me,” “Share the Fall”
I've been loving liquid drum n bass lately and it's cool to get a new album here. The album art really threw me off- it looks very modern. The type/fonts, the weird little seemingly random icons adorned next to the artist name, the spacey imagery... i dig it. I liked my listen through. 3/5. It probably could have been shorter or tighter structurally which hurt it.
good background music
Ik ben al fan van drum 'n bass/breakbeat-achtige toestanden sinds ik als jong mannetje voor de eerste keer "Freestyler" van Bomfunk MCs hoorde en ik ben verbaasd dat er een dnb album in de lijst staat. Aan de andere kant is dit natuurlijk wel erg UK en UK = Goddelijk volgens de maker van deze lijst. Eigenlijk heb ik hiermee wel een beetje hetzelfde als met hele oude hiphop: Het is voor het genre essentieel geweest dat het er op dat moment was, maar inmiddels is het genre (of de genres eigenlijk) flink doorgegroeid en kunnen we beter. Dit klinkt nog steeds goed, maar het is ook wel wat beperkt en gedateerd als je hoort wat vele anderen inmiddels uit de computer hebben weten te toveren. Je kunt het haast niet vergelijken. Dat gezegd hebbende: ik kan dit zonder enige irritatie luisteren. Liever oude drum 'n bass dan nieuwe Suzan en Freek zeggen we hier thuis altijd. Ik vermaak me ermee, het is lekkere werkmuziek en het is een keer wat anders dan klaagzang uit de 80's. De tracks zijn wat lang maar dat maakt het ook wel lekker dromerig en geschikt voor op de achtergrond. Realistisch gezien denk ik een 3, al zou ik voor het genre graag hoger geven.
Better than i hoped it would be
Pretty good sound but repetitive at times
Gosh this came the day after a migraine when I was tired and headachey and definitely was not the vibe! Thinking back to my post apocalyptic orgy music vibes. But some of them were fun and I would like to party to them. So a mixed view on this one!
Ermmmm, fine I guess. Very repetitive and not something I'd choose to listen to but I guess it was pumping and fun in places.
I can understand that this might have been fresh and exciting at the time it came out, but it feels very dated now. Which is fine, but the songs are so long and feel like a slog at times. Not my cup of tea. I don't know that I agree that it's really essential listening.
Its OK, but not like an essential album or anything. 3/5
Drum ‘n base zou zoveel fijner zijn zonder zang. Vind ik dan, hè?
Actually really enjoyed this as a soundtrack for the work day
Another I will just have to write off as that I do not get this whole style of music. Just monotonous interminable repetition to my ears.
New to me. Good learning.
It's just... 2 hours is a bit much.
Experimental edm. Feels like the songs are 3/4 complete. Not my cup of tea.
Broke new ground and outstayed it’s welcome within one album.
Langt síðan ég hef hlustað á Roni Size. Sumt eldist vel, annað ekki.
first listen it's cool but definitely too long
Enjoyed it but it sounded just like every other drum and bass music I've ever heard.
I like a bit of drum n' bass, but it's really a music to be out dancing to. That said, the first half of this is great, in a head nodding, trance-inducing kinda way. I'll listen to the second half sometime perhaps.
Litt langdrygt. Jeg liker denne typen musikk for litt intensive skriveøkter.
Интересная работа, но как будто для музыкального альбома сыровата. Очень хочется добавить сюда вокал или флоу. Если же подойти к этому как к некоторым формам, которые нужно дополнить, то смысла у неё чуть больше; но в таком случае она больше интересна музыкантам, чем просто слушателям.
Эта музыка звучит примерно как записанные на носитель диджей-сеты. Причём не танцевальные, а такие типа... ну, в духе "Лагеря", не знаю правда, насколько это очевидная ассоциация. В общем не подэнсить, а скорее покачаться с коктейлем в руках. Подзадалбывает немного к концу... опять же, альбом сидя слушаю, ну вы помните. Я думаю, если эта музыка в клубе фоном играет - она не будет так сильно "бесить" к 9-10 треку. Маловато развития... но большой пласт для потенциального будущего творчества: семплы, коллабы, ремиксы, всё в этом духе.
Ну чутка забавно. Иногда прям ухты, но это прям редкие временные всплески среди белого шума остальных звуков. За счёт этих Ухты 3
I can’t say it’s bad… I can’t even say I disliked it.. but goddamn if it’s not an absolutely mission to get through this whole thing. Many of the songs could’ve used something unique to differentiate them from each other since it feels like you’re hearing almost the same 7min song on repeat 15 times. I did enjoy the more jazzy second half quite a bit more as well so I might come back to that. 6/10
something id hear playing in an early 2000s club scene
Some bangers. Some background music. Good, but not his best.
Good. Not great.
WAY too long (listened to the 2 disc album on spotify) but some songs were pretty good
3.5 - As background music I actually enjoyed this better than I thought I would. Definitely suitable for this rainy day grind session. I like the upright bass sounds and breakbeats.
Música electrónica con ritmos sencillos, sin ser demasiado estridente. Un tanto chillout
Again, never scrobbled. I can appreciate this. I can hear the work that went into it. The stuff with vocals was cool... I just don't know
Not bad but nowhere near the best in this style.
Interesting sounds, though it is not my style at all I did enjoy what I heard for the most part. Nice discovery.
not my taste
Sånt här hade ett rätt snävt bäst-före-datum när det begav sig men icke icke förty: Lite mystrevligt att lyssna på igen
Took a while to grow on me but generally I liked it. I definitely preferred tracks or sections of tracks without vocals. I know nothing of how this album is situated in the music universe so the groundbreaking nature of it is lost on me. Without that context I don't think I can realistically go above 3 stars.
Kinda peppy new wave electronic vibes with some east coast rap blended in at times. 3.5
Good background music.
Solid DnB, decent variation although nothing mindblowing
For a 2 hour jungle album, this flew in. Not much to dislike on here
Je connaissais ce nom, mais je crois que c’est ma première écoute d’un album entier. C’est un album important pour le Drum n Bass. Il y a plusieurs moments intéressants sur cet album, mais étant à la base un style répétitif, 2 disques c’est très long. Ça a nuie à mon appréciation globale du disque. Les pièces avec du vocal sont les plus intéressantes. Ayant remporté le Mercury Prize, pour ce genre de musique, je comprends qu’il soit sur la liste. En session fractionné, ça se prend mieux.
I know this is considered the essential drum and bass album, but two hours is just too long. At its best, the album is fantastic, highly layered, and frenzied, but it just goes on for too long.
I was vaguely familiar with Roni Size and this album before listening. I went through a phase where I listed to a lot in this genre but it's all a blur. Regardless, I liked it—would have to be in the right frame of mind to toss it on.
Well, getting a bad feeling just from the album title... But I like it just fine. A little speedy for first thing in the morning! Overall pretty good, though I like more melody or more aggro in my electronic music.
Good instrumentals
Such an interesting mix of hip hop and jazz. Great sound engineering
Listens: 1 Enjoyed: not really The beats alone would be pretty good, not something I'd actively seek out though. I also think the music was stronger in areas where there were no lyrics Probably a very low 3
I think I liked the second part more than the first, I don’t know if it was part of the original album or not, these electronic artists seem really into themselves. 5 hour 20th anniversary release, who are you? Wilco!? There is some ok stuff here, I really want to hand out a 2 but as much as this album annoys me there is some decent music here.Morse Code was an assault on my ears and I hate the man for it. Fuck this prick, 3/5
non tanto il mio genere però ci stava
drum'n bass particolare, molto pop. brani diversi tra loro
I was a little scared of this album going into it, but it's actually alright. The problem is the average song length is 6 minutes, making this album over two hours long. I like a lot of the beats, but they didn't need to be six minutes long. It's a slog to get through. My favourite song was Brown Paper Bag.
Prefs: Railing, Brown Paper Bag, New Forms, Morse Code, Destination, Hi-Potent, Trust Me, Change My Life, Jazz, Ballet Dance Moins prefs: Beatbox, Hot Stuff
Not for me - a bit too repetitive. I guess I'm not a Drum & Bass fan!
This album was a mixed bag for me, ethereal and atmospheric but also some of the relentless repetition nearly tipped me into moments of temporary insanity.
probably fine but it didn't move me
New Forms is the debut album by British EDM group Roni Size & Reprazent. It's a drum and bass album that earned a lot of commercial success, including the 1997 Mercury Prize and being certified platinum in the UK. This is one of the first albums centering on drum and bass and it's considered the group's magnum opus. I loved the energetic drums combined with the booming bass, in addition to the nostalgia factor of hearing old school EDM. This is a great album for any EDM lovers, or music history buffs that want to hear one of the albums that blossomed the electronic dance craze.
A really interesting genre, the bare-bones D&B tunes aren't really my thing, but add some melody and some of these are really good.
got the sb leak yesterday so I couldn't listen but I will tomorrow
The Drum and Bass album it's ok to like. Phat (yep, phat) beats, use of double bass and and faceless waif vocals. It's bloated as a double album, and could be the argument needed when saying some doubles should be trimmed down to one disc. Best Tracks: Brown Paper Bag; Heroes; Hi-Potent
Meh. Some synth. Some samples. Mid 90's. 3 stars
Fast paced fuel for driving through the city streets late at night in your 93 bmw. Good stuff
Oh, that nineties sound! Generally speaking, I like that type of music, but I do think there are better choices when it comes to the genre and the period (say, Fat Boy Slim?). Regardless, I could do with worse background music, I guess.
I'd have liked this in 1997 but I never bothered with it. Much of it made me feel anxious today. Too much clubbing in 1997.
This album feels so ahead of its time I feel like I heard one or two songs that sound a lot like modern dubstep, while the rest sounded like modern drum and bass. I guess the lesson that I learned is that these specific EDM subgenres are actually older than I realized. This album was fairly standard as far as drum and bass goes, but I really like drum and bass, so this album was enjoyable for me.,
Too long
Jiggly but it's all on cruise control. Choose one for a short journey or both for the longer trips.
I really don't listen to this type of music. Said another way, I really don't take these kinds of drugs anymore but this album was very pleasant to have on as background while working.
After 5 songs it all starts sounding the same.
Not too bad for electronic/drum & bass music.
Schiebt von Beginn gut an, hievt mit „Brown Paper Bag“ gleich mal die Latte hoch, hält ein unfassbar jazzy-grooviges, dichtes Niveau und franst vielleicht aufgrund der Länge zum Ende hin ein wenig aus. (Auf Kopfhörern seltsamer Weise etwas dünner als im Auto, wobei die Stereo-Spielereien erst damit bemerkbar werden) Goulish 3.4
Fand ich 1997 langweiliger als heute, und ich mochte Drum'n'Bass damals sehr. Heute trotzdem spannender, was ja nichts schlechtes ist. Vom Hocker reisst es mich aber auch nicht.
So 1001 provides multiple listings for hardcore and grunge, but only one for drum and bass - and this is it. I'm not an aficionada of D&B, but I'd say Roni is more melodic and less minimalist than most of what I've heard. The addition of Onallee on vocals is a big plus. Heroes and the other tracks she's involved in are standouts IMO. It would be nice to condense the best stuff down to a single LP.
In general, I find listening to double albums a chore, and this album is a good representation of that. I was ready to be done at the end of the first album, and then here is a full other album for me to listen to. I thought I was going to like this more. I'm a fan of DnB in general, and I remember listening to some of these songs when I was younger, but it didn't really do anything for me this time around. Part of the problem may be that I prefer more modern DnB, and this is pretty true to the roots of the genre 3/5
Pretty cool, but ran out of steam and interest very quickly. Probably belongs on this list but not one to return to much.
Probably amongst the worst things from the house of darkness malarkey. I might need to get some drugs in.
Hard to rate. Probably the best drum and bass album ever but it isn't a genre that suits albums. Brown Paper Bag is still amazing
i feel like this one suffers from the general musical malaise of the late 90s...but it's still interesting, in its way. it holds on hard to the old jungle beats - from back when that term wasn't as problematic as it is now - which i enjoy, since it's such an insect-in-amber thing. but overall, it's just not for me. didn't like it then, don't really care about it now.
Overlong and a bit samey but still sounds better than expected.
Long album but good beats.
I can appreciate that this was somewhat either ground-breaking or genre-defining, but DNB isn't really for me. And the vocals didn't make up for anything. A good album, well produced.
Cool techno lounge
Encyclopedic, a little repetitive (not within tracks but in the tracklist, too, and in neither place self-referential), long but driving toward its telos. That destination feels a bit hollow, but the music does not: Parts of it are positively live.
I'd give this album a 4-star rating if the songs were shorter. It's 139 minutes, over two hours of music, which is not necessarily bad, but this kind of compositions can get very repetitive very quickly, even though it's some pretty outstanding, classic drum'n'bass. "Lo bueno, si poco, mejor".
Classic drum and bass, decent tunes
I didn’t find this enjoyable, but I can recognize that it’s good. Because it wasn’t my thing I skipped through a lot of tracks after the first minute or so. I really thought I would enjoy some songs based off of their opening riffs, but found they were lacking.
interesting. album art screams 1997 to me haha. its longggggg. first thought: radiohead music but some dude rapping on top instead of toms pitiful singing lol. it's been like 40 minutes and i've liked everything minus that first track. i dont have a lot to say i simply like this type of music. but it also wasnt the absolute best. just pretty cool.
Drum and bass, but jazzy enough to enjoy without the full bass experience. Some of the 7-9 minute tracks did drag on
Good fun drum and bass. Long run time. Consequently, a little repetitive by the second CD.
Good for raving ngl
A estas alturas reconozco que da un poco de pereza, pero no está mal.
A bit monotonous
90's electronic. chill dnb and jazz vibes. I actually digged this album even though im not the biggest dnb fan. A good album for ambient sound
Not bad, but not the best house/jungle/rythym-n-bass album I've heard either. Also, way, way, too long.
I gave this more of a fair shot than I might have otherwise because I have a good friend named Roni. I still dislike drum and bass, but this band does it real well
JUNGLE IS MASSIVE. Excellent former dnb producer that managed to shapeshift the sound in the 90s with legendary producer like Goldie.
Some funky, cool sounds, but I can't listen to two hours of this.
3.3
Okay 👌
Interesting but real long
D&B, 3/5
Drum and bass and drum and bass and drum and bass. I cannot believe Reprezent exists or that they chose to spell their name that way.
This would've been better if every one was 2-3 minutes shorter. Great for having on in the background while working though.
I don't like Drum and Bass, but some of this wasn't terrible -- basically the rapping at the beginning.
I would've been fine if it wasn't 2+ hours long with some songs reaching 9 minutes in lenght. For some other music genres this wouldn't be an issue, but listening to drum'n'bass for so long just gives me anxiety. and even if we look over the fact that this is an anxiety inducing album, it has some great moments but most of it is just kinda okay.
I have to imagine that these guys achieved what they were going for, although it is not for me. I enjoy the sound of this album, but I think each song is too long and the vocalists don't do anything for me. As an album, I cannot see myself returning to it, especially due to its length.
Honestly, I was dreading this when I saw how long it was. But I'm committed to this project, so I put it on while I was doing things around my house.The music was not bad, but it was repetitive. I would say it would be good to listen to for a long night of dancing at the club. It also has a good atmospheric quality, so it does make decent background music. However, I have to rate it lower just bc of the length and repetition. I know I won't revisit it.
Heard bone-crushingly loud at 2AM, covered in other people's sweat, this may well be a life-changing record. As a headphone listen, it's just a waste of everyone's time.
After a while I thought I was just listening to the same song for 50 minutes.
I would really like to know what it is about this that warrants being on a list of 1001 albums you MUST listen to before you DIE. I'm sure someone working with samples has sampled these samples, yay. This is about as 2.5 as 2.5 can get.
I still don’t know electronica well enough to say if this is any good. But I know I still don’t love electronica. Didn’t hate this one, so that’s a plus.
5/10 Didnt really like it
This is a long ass album to be nothing but electronic drums and base. Got the gist after the first 3 hours. And i still don't get the hype.
Skjønner bare ikke hva denne platen vil meg. Fungerte sikkert kjempebra på et Rave i Luton 97.
not for me
I don't really need to hear this again. It's not like it's terrible music....it's fine as background music for a live stream or something... but I feel like I've heard much more interesting versions of this kinda thing.
I like Drum 'N' Bass, I even like Roni Size and Reprazent, but an entire double album is far too much. Like every double album ever, this would be better as a more curated single disc, and even then Drum 'N' Bass isn't a musical genre that lends itself to an entire album, it's just exhausting to listen to. Plus, the ideal situation to listen to this is at a club in the late 90s while ripped off your tits on Special Brew or something more illicit.
I didn't hate it but fuck, it just drags so much. Way too long. The man who wrote this list is obviously a Brit who was a teen/young adult in the 90s. Respect for tying his choices to a time and place but I never want to listen to this meandering double album again. Spotify has even more on there, five hours or more. Kill me.
Difficult to listen to
Yeah no
Just weird
Boring/annoying/bad rappers. But gives frutier aqua a little bit....
Duly noted: Drum and Bass is a thing. These works are not albums in the Album Era Sense, they are catalogs of tracks where more is always more. How about an album of a proper 60' set? A little DnB goes a long way, and this much DnB doesn’t really go anywhere. :( I've now finished the subset of records with 'roni' in their artist/titles: Synchronicity, The Chronic, and this.
So I didnt hate this, but, its too much techno for me. I did hear a lot of late 90s electronica sounds. A lot of it reminded of the soundtrack to the matrix, which is where most of my late 90s techno experience comes from.
Honestly as background noise this isn’t terrible or anything, it’s just absolutely punishing in its length. 140 minutes of more or less the same thing, with minimal variation, is a tough sell even if you love a genre, and I do not love drum and bass. If this is what new forms sound like I’m happy to settle for the old ones.
Not as bad as I thought, and I can appreciate the music style, just truly not as a sit down and listen to it as an album sort of thing. Thankfully Spotify only had about 85% of CD1 and I stopped there. Fine stuff but not best suited to the album format, in a conventional sense at least (best listened to as a mix)
It’s like dance or house music, but without any good riffs to make it interesting. Not fully 1 star, but definitely not for me.
Actually pretty fun but good fucking god is this motherfucker interminable, both in track count AND track length, like there are 20 tracks AND they all run 6 minutes (where they basically sound the same for the duration of any given track)
Not my thing. I can see why people would like it but it’s not something I’d listen to again.
The line "something you've never heard before" followed by some basic drumming and synth work really set the vibe for this listen. It's not that it is incompetent or not alright to listen to, but it's so disposable feeling. Maybe that's part of the appeal but in six months I could hear this again and be perfectly convinced I've never heard it and it sounds the same as 1,000 other drum and bass acts.
I had always heard about drum and bass and it's importance to British music. If this is an important album maybe it will help me understand. 3 tracks in I've lost all sense of time. I'm in a prison, a sound is pecking at my brain. I'm trying to escape my consciousness to a place without drums and bass. Track 5. A voice, a voice I don't want to hear. I might start to cry. Matter of Fact feels like a welcome escape. I took the garbage out, the sun washed over me. I'm reminded that I am in a different prison. The drums have returned. Will listening to this reprogram my brain? I'm scared, but maybe I won't know any better after this. Are those bongos? They are frightening. A cellmate has started to imitate the drums, or is this me? On and on and on a rhythm that my heart cannot comprehend. If I hadn't lost all sense of time back on track 3 I would be able to process the silence after the album better. I'm worried the beats might come back. I need time.
Nono off per me
None of the songs really make me feel like I wanted to listen until the end. hard meh
It was very 90’s and unremarkable
Personal enjoyment: 2/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5
Fitting our second to last album is one of these. Way too long and uninteresting.
Bin im DnB nicht so bewandert. Ist das für das Genre ein wichtiges Album? Bei mir bleibt da nix hängen.
Could have been worse. Wayyyy too long
Ooof, I actually liked it for a little while, but then realized it was mostly just distraction free background music, but then realized how long the album was, but then realized how repetitive the album was, but then....
Not only do I not like this, but I also hate it. I don't even hate it passionately enough for a 1, because it's also uninteresting.
I thought it was just aight.
Was not the worst background music but definitely not for me.
Boring
Okay, so drum and bass isn't really my jam, and even after listening to this, I still think it was a total robbery that it won over OK Computer at the Mercury Prize in 1997. I get that Roni Size is talented and uses jazzy bass and real drums, but the "New Forms" here just end up feeling like a new kind of tired. At almost 80 minutes for just the first disc, and over two hours if you go all in to the extended version (and let's not even talk about the 4 disc, 5 hour marathon of a 20th anniversary edition), it goes from chill background music to a repetitive, anxiety-inducing slog that drags on forever. There are some cool moments, especially on tracks like "Brown Paper Bag" or "Watching Windows", where the jungle/jazz mix actually sounds decent. But for someone who isn't super into it, the same beats and looped vocals make it sound super old and kinda niche. It's important to the greater UK music scene, for sure, and it helped the genre get popular, but unless you're a hardcore 90s raver or need a long, boring soundtrack for work, it's hard to recommend.
Sigh of disappointment with another electronica pick and a very fucking long one, too. Listened to it in the car. Much better than I expected. More development and progression of beats and sounds than I think is usual, and I didn't feel like I needed a cocktail of drugs to get into it. Really not bad. But I can't really say I liked it or would recommend it as a musical milestone. 2.5/5
Fine DnB but too long to be listened to in one sitting
As a collection of individual songs intended to be mixed and matched, I get it. As an album it bleeds together in a way I found unpleasant even if I liked pieces in isolation.
Inoffensive and bland.
ME ABURRI, igual yo ya se que no me gusta este tipo de música je
While I can admire the commitment of the drum 'n' bass genre to an innovative aesthetic and sound design, it makes me anxious. It's like chugging too much coffee. While New Forms may be the most successful example of the genre, I think if I listened to the whole thing, I would never sleep again. I am also intrinsically skeptical of any album that wins the Mercury Prize. It's a marker of over-hyped pretention, and historically, the winners often have little long-term cultural impact. Applying that sweeping generalization to New Forms seems cruel (but fair).
I tried, but I couldn’t get into this.
Favorite Track: Railing
boooooringgggg mas pelo menos nos trechos que eu ouvi tem sua criatividade 2/5 / 4/10
Ehh, this is not my kind of music but still I have listened to drum and bass that I liked more than this. Feels very of its time and not very interesting.
The Brits are at it again. There is enough UK bias on this list that a bunch of reviews are going to amount to an unessential album that happens to be popular in Britain being dunked on by non-UK users and then a bunch of people who did coke or acid at the right time in history talking about how life changing the album was. Drum n' Bass is much bigger in the Uk, probably in no small part becuase it fit into the party culture over there in a way that is doesn't in the US. The actual music is fine, but this album is just way too long and samey to be enjoyed much in a sober mind. I'm sure it rocks if you're on molly, but that isn't really a huge credit to it. QVC rocks when you're high.
New Forms has a bit more personality than Logical Progression. I enjoyed some moments, but it blended into a more than two hour "ehhh" that joins the list of extremely long club albums that have barely any point to be here other than the editors thought it was important. Shoutout Anna Kendrick, she lowkey bad (4/10, 2/5 on this scale)
Hooray, another long and tiring DnB album. I'm sort of glad it's not a compilation, unlike "Logical Progression". "New Forms" still suffers from the same problems that "Logical Progression" had. It's an incredible slog to get through, but the synths managed to keep me sane. I have no idea how this album reached number 8 on the charts. 2 stars for "New Forms".
First song sounded like a more boring rip off of funk soul brother and the rest was weird boring ambient noise that turned into less ambient noise but still just noise. Why tf is this on the list?
Needs more bass and less drum 🤔
There have to be better drum n bass records out there. This isn't really it. Gonna rate it lower than 3 only bc of the length.
Jag orkade inte lyssna på hela albumet, det tog liksom aldrig slut. Jag minns att jag gillade Roni Size när det begav sig. I alla fall Brown Paper Bag och Share the fall. Men... Det låter likadant rakt igenom och jag tröttnar snabbt. Ett album som kanske passar bättre i 90-talet?
3.0/10 Pretty annoying overall... hard to get through the entire album
Only made it through disc 1. It’s ok, I just don’t really like this genre. I really don’t like that one track Morse Code tho I think I am going insane
Never been a big fan of "drum'n'bass" and this album does nothing for me.. overly long, repetitive beat tracks... DNF the album
I mean it’s fine I guess.
I’m on the verge of giving up on this list. It’s just defeating album after defeating album. I think it’s safe to say that Brit rap/techno, hip hop/drum and bass is almost all trash. Vocally that is. As far as the music goes, sans trash vocals. It’s decent. I actually really like the music for Digital. In fact, even the vocals hold up. Thank you Digital for pulling this one out of the trash heap. But that’s really it. You grow tired of the album before you crave more Choice cut: digital
The first impressions aren't good. And I definitely won't make it through the 5hr remastered version that Qobuz suggests...
okay
Man this drags. Can't say I hated it. I got through it, but it was challenging and I am sure I never will listen again. I understand why you would include a drum and basse album but this one feels dated and not creative
Sehr langatmiges Album mit gewöhnungsbedürftigem Grundrauschen. Vielleicht kein Album für einen Tag.
Nope
Et chill D&B-album. Den mest populære låta her, Brown Paper Bag, hadde sklidd ubemerket inn i Geometry Dash. Minner om Jamie xx, bare svakere. Top 3: New Forms, Railings, Heroes
Kinda sounds like typical 90s electronic music. More odd than good.
Album 127. New Forms (https://open.spotify.com/album/2wa0kOg4mJ94Iw17Gcv4IL?si=8sSn-QlWSVKc5xzyIQ5O8w) — Roni Size (1997) I'm not really sure if I finished the album today, it's pretty long and I don't remember when it ended. Anyways, it's a strange mix of genres, not my kind of electronica. I enjoyed the song New Forms featuring Bahamadia. Basically, I found a part of hip-hop in the album and it's the only thing I really enjoyed. Okay, finishing this review, I'm adding New Forms to liked playlist. 2/5 Liked: — New Forms
Man, every time I see a double album come up, I get a little worried. It's a rare double that merits the form, unless you happen to be a hardcore fan. It's especially wild as a debut! This is a brand new genre for me. As with a lot of electronic music, I find it extremely repetitive. This suits my usual form of listening -- while I work during the day -- but rarely becomes so interesting as to break my concentration. That works well for productivity but isn't a real endorsement in terms of music. This might work much better if I were dancing in a club. As the breaks are fairly monotonous (though shifting, slowly), the occasional vocal content would be heavily leaned on for interest. Unfortunately, the MCs featured here don't have the flow to hold my attention. This isn't bad music, it's just not suited to my tastes and the contexts in which I'm usually listening. I'll try this again sometime when I'm zoned in, working on a project at home -- I imagine I'll enjoy it much more, then. I'll just have to take Dimery's word that this is an important album. The second disc is better than the first. 2/5 but you should check it out -- it might be your jam! Be warned: the 20th Anniversary Edition is doubled (remixes), so it's like five hours long. You don't need to put yourself through that.
meh.
I think this would be considered house music. Something along that dance vibe. I feel harsh saying this, but can't think of another way; I found it boring and uninspiring
Nah
Not bad driving music. That sound on Brown Paper Bag is interesting, but not as interesting as that song from the Flat Eric advert
I struggled to listen to this in its entirety when it was released. Yes, D&B was innovative, that didn’t make it a good listen. I don’t feel it’s aged well and it soon wears thin. Not one to revisit.
Det va heilt ok. Litt repetetivt, men kult te tider
This was boring and didn’t seem to have much to redeem it. I didn’t not listen to all of the special edition
This shit is too long. There's little variance within the individual tracks. Most of the tracks could be cut in half and still sound the same structurally. There's also little variance between tracks. They all blur together and could've worked as just one really long track. Several times I got baited by the opening of a track, and I thought that they were actually going to switch up the beat, but a couple minutes later without fail the track will have somehow devolved into the same type of beat as every other track on this album.
BBGM (british background music)
I don’t even think that this was groundbreaking for 1997. No reason for this to be here.
Didn’t really go it for me
More UK electronica? C'mon, mate! I sucked it up and listened to the whole (original release) album. Not the 5 hours, 15 minutes version on the YouTube music. (Who the hell could even do that?!?) Isn't the 2hr 19min version enough to get anyone's brain leaking out? This is exactly representative of this genre. (yes, I'm lumping d&b along with any of the various types of electronica here because they're all frigging the same!) Maybe that's why it's on the list. I saw something about it bringing d&b into the mainstream and a bunch of UKers saying that it was the soundtrack of their youth. So, OK. Cool. The problem with it and it's ilk is that someone comes up with a cool sound and then beats the living hell out of it for about 6 minutes too long. The repetition gets soooo annoying! I will give them a little credit for adding some flairs and dips into a few other genres, but it's not enough to make up for the constant beat beat beat and repeated hooks and lyrics. Usually, I go back in to listen to every album at least twice. This is only the 3rd out of just about 200 that I just couldn't bring myself to do again. It's all too same-y throughout AND did I mention it's repetitious? I'll give it a couple of points for being a good representative of the genre and I see that some folks really like it. So, I'll chalk it up to Different Stokes for Different Folks (Thanks, Sly Stone!) But it's a 2 for me!
I didn't make it all the way through this one, but I'm still giving it a 2. Deal with it.
Primera noticia. No sé nade ni de este disco ni de este músico. Madre mía me sale la edición 20 aniversario con 58 temas y casi 6 horas!!! He buscado en la wikipedia para escuchar solo las de la edición original. Aún gustándome esta música se me ha hecho bola. Mercury Prize a disco del año 97. Ha envejecido mal.
Album 1053 of 1089 New Forms- Roni Size (1997) Rating : 2 / 5 What did I just listen to? That was my first thought when it ended. This is a deep dive into drum and bass — layered beats, rapid-fire rhythms, electronic textures stacked on top of each other for well over an hour. It’s ambitious, no doubt about that. You can hear the craft. You can hear the production detail. You can tell this was meant to be immersive. But immersive and enjoyable aren’t always the same thing for me. There were moments where I caught myself appreciating the complexity — the way the percussion drives everything forward, the way vocals float in and out almost like another instrument. But just as quickly, it would slip back into long stretches that felt repetitive to my ears. It’s clearly built for listeners who want to sink into rhythm and atmosphere. I tend to want songs. That doesn’t make it bad. It just means it isn’t really made for me. I respect the artistry. I respect the ambition. But when it was over, I wasn’t left wanting to go back. More of an experience than a pleasure listen, in my world.
I’m kind of ambivalent towards this one. A double album of very similar isn’t normally something I’d go for. Bits and pieces were fine
É um Drum&Bass com elementos bem ricos. Só que devo ser sincero e dizer que não é um tipo de som que me apetece. QoA Adonis New.
As soon as I saw the length of this album I started dreading having to listen to it. After hearing it I stand by that, the songs just drag on without being very interesting. The title track is decent but that was the highlight. It never became grating hence the rating
My son enjoyed dancing to some of the songs, but the breakbeat is all the same, giving the album a lack of variety in sound. It’s also too long by 30-45 minutes, but most electronic albums are.
it is what it is innit
I think it's supposed to be this way but way too repetitive for me. 2 stars.
Don't really enjoy this type of music. Found the first half of the album quite repetitive but picked up in the second half. Still not for me
Nothing too horrible, but also nothing special
Too repetitive and kind of basic overall it felt like.
It started off heavy and thought it'd be a very long 2+ hours to get through it, but then it got better and could listen to the whole album. It's not my thing but I can see why it was so new in the late 1990s, and it still doesn't sound too dated. The thing is, that it is too much background music for me and it's not something I would actively seek out. It's also a very long album. 2 stars, but it's not a really bad album, it just isn't really my taste.
This is a joke, right? Cool, D&B roots....
Gave this a skip listen because drum and base very much isn't my thing but it wasn't too bad. Wouldn't play it again and a lot of it sounds very similar to me but probably a good entry point to this type of music.
It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on... I don't care if it's impressive or innovative for its time, I don't want to hear any more of it.
This was one long song...right? Def not the only one on this list - but for sure an album where right away you go..is it bad? Not really. Did i need to hear it before i die? DEF NOT
Each track has its own odd, jazzy sounds and moody atmospheres - enough of it to fill exactly one or two minutes of interesting music per track. But with the average track length here being around 7 minutes, that leaves on average 5-6 minutes per track where the music just kind of rambles on, becoming a functional soundtrack to aid your study sessions at best. Not bad at all, but just imagine what could have been, if only these tracks would actually go somewhere.
I usually like Electronica and DnB to some extent. But this was way too long and too repetitive, even for Electronica.
Drum and bass is not my genre. There were some cool sounds and I can see why people get into it, but this felt pretty endless.
Drum and base is not my style of Techno. This had some interesting songs though, but overall i'd pass on it. 2.5/5
Hab's mir schlimmer vorgestellt.
I know it's not like anyone is checking, but I always listen to these albums in full. (Original track listing only – reissued bonus tracks don't count.) For some reason though, Spotify is missing the last two tracks of New Forms and it came as a bit of a relief that I had a valid excuse not to see it through to the bitter end. I think an album that tries to expand the artistic possibilities of drum and bass is more interesting in theory than in reality.
Fairly boring and repetitive drum/bass beats throughout. Seemed like lame rave stuff. Production sounds bad.
Inoffensive but not exactly impressive
A couple of groundbreaking songs does not make for a bloated album.
Drum and bass gets a bit tiring. Hard to listen to the full thing
God this is a lot of DnB for a Saturday morning. I probably need to revisit this more in the mood. I can see the influence which always bumps ratings up for me, but not my sort of thing
I listened to the album that came up which was only half. Still a fucking hour. Did not like this! A lot of it was really annoying and repetitive at least vocals wise. The drums were kinda tough. One exception I give is to mad cat that song was fire loved that opening.
I listened to all two hours and twenty minutes of this. #AMA
Sounds like most 90s/00s DnB and Jungle. Not terrible but nothing standout. Would make a great soundtrack for a PS2 game.
Best Track - "Railing"
What a load of rubbish. I like both electronica and drum & bass, which is why I was interested in the album. It got on my nerves right from the first track. It's more hip-hop than anything else. It didn't get any better. I gave up in exasperation during the third track. Yet another album I can die without regret without having heard it. 2/5
None of this was particularly bad to listen to, but it wasn't at all interesting for me and was just waaaaaaaaay too long, both the individual songs, and the album. It also felt like most of the songs had an intro that was 1-2 minutes long and then jumped into something unrelated which just made things seem longer. Probably could have gotten to 3 stars if everything was shorter and tighter, but just too much repetition and length of uninteresting things...
Drum and bass electronic album. There are some good beats and moments here. However, I was ready for it to end.
This absolutely did not need to be 2+ hours long. Especially since 'Brown Paper Bag', the second track, was the highlight. I can't imagine listening to all 5+ hours of the 2oth anniversary edition.
The Mercury Music Prize has produced a few head-scratchers over the years, which I suppose is a good thing. But nothing about this grabbed me at all, and I was well and truly bored less than 2/3rds of the way through Disc 1 alone.
It's no 69 juice by partiboi69 but then again what is?
It was just fine, pretty repetitive.
I remember this album well, downloading a copy of it when it first came out, listening to half of it, feeling I had wasted a CDR. I never listened to it all the way through, so here's my chance. Early D&B is just a bit sparse, slow, and lame. This is the Goldie-type of D&B, the type I don't like because it's atmospheric with no actual beats to hook you in. Lots of tapping, jazzy sounds, stretched out so that each track hangs around forever, tapping and beeping/ booping from time to time. In the background we have some synths, also doing very little. The vocals are just awful. Just when I'm starting to push the music into the background, along come some grating vocals to remind me how long this album actually is. I came to the end, feeling my experience justified my initial rejection of this album. I love D&B, to the point where it's definitely one of my top three genres, but this is not the D&B I love in the slightest. Two stars.
This is fine, but... why is it 140 minutes long... and why does every song seem to repeat in the middle... this is fine, but... why is it 140 minutes long... and why does every song seem to repeat in the middle...
I mostly recognize Roni Size & Reprazent from the Kruder und Dorfmeister downtempo remix collection the K&D Sessions. While I had an interest in d&b around the same time that lasted into around 2000, my preference remains in the slower, more atmospheric artists from this time period.
I’m sorry, it’s only my opinion, but I hate this.
No, thanks.
Pretty uninspiring
Drum and bass.. one of my least favourite electronic music types. This whole album sounds very 90s. I guess most drum and bass does, but this one in particular. Just like with all drum and bass album, this record suffers from the same problem: you get tired of the drum pattern after hearing one or two songs. And it's almost always the same as well, barely changes one bit over the course of the album. How incredibly boring. Especially when paired with the fact that their snare (or rim shot or w/e it is) sounds incredibly weak and annoying. There were definitely some high-points on this album, but they were few. 'Heroes' was a pretty cool song, but mostly due to all other reasons than what made it drum and bass. The end part of 'New Forms' also had something going to it. Overall this wasn't my thing at all, as I dislike drum and bass quite a lot. But if this is your jam, I'm sure it might be as good as claimed in the wiki.
It was ok.
English drum and bass electric...dont deserve more than 2,5
Cool UK people sounding cool but leaves me a bit cold.
Nous sommes en 1997, une année charnière, une année de bascule, une année où le rock britannique se regardait le nombril avec arrogance et où l'électronique essayait désespérément de s'acheter une crédibilité "salon de thé". Je bossais chez mon disquaire indépendant à l'époque, et je peux vous dire qu'on en a brassé, de la galette, cette année-là. Il y avait des monuments, des trucs qui te retournent le cerveau et te changent la vie. "OK Computer" de Radiohead, évidemment, "Urban Hymns" de The Verve, le "Homogenic" de Björk. Et puis, au milieu de tout ça, il y avait la hype Drum & Bass (ou Jungle, selon l'heure de la journée et le taux d'alcoolémie de l'interlocuteur). La Drum & Bass, j'ai rien contre sur le principe. J'aime Underworld, j'aime quand ça part en vrille, j'aime quand la rythmique te prend aux tripes et te secoue comme un prunier. Mais en 1997, il s'est passé un truc qu'on n'a toujours pas digéré : le Mercury Prize. Pour ceux qui ne suivent pas, le Mercury Prize, c'est censé récompenser le meilleur album britannique ou irlandais de l'année. En face, tu avais Radiohead qui venait de redéfinir le rock pour les vingt prochaines années, The Prodigy qui mettait le feu à la planète avec "The Fat of the Land", et Chemical Brothers qui nous faisait creuser notre propre trou. Et qui gagne ? Roni Size et son collectif Reprazent avec "New Forms". À l'époque, on nous a vendu ça comme le futur du jazz, la fusion ultime, l'intelligence rythmique incarnée. Aujourd'hui, avec le recul et surtout avec la note de 2 sur 5 que je lui colle sans trembler des genoux, on peut le dire : c'était peut-être un poil exagéré, voire une vaste blague. Alors, qu'est-ce que c'est que ce "New Forms" ? C'est un double album et là, déjà, on a un problème. Un double album de Drum & Bass "jazzy", c'est comme un marathon où on t'oblige à courir avec des chaussures de clown : c'est long, c'est pénible, et à la fin, tu as juste envie de t'asseoir et de ne plus jamais entendre parler de contretemps. Le concept, c'est de mélanger des rythmiques breakbeat ultra-rapides avec une contrebasse (souvent acoustique, ouh là là, quelle audace !), des nappes un peu planantes et des vocaux qui oscillent entre le rap mou et la soul de supermarché. Sur le papier, pourquoi pas mais dans les faits, c'est une épreuve d'endurance. Mon ressenti principal... c'est répétitif. Mais pas répétitif comme un bon drone de Sunn O))) qui t'écrase sous une chape de plomb jusqu'à la transe mystique. Non, c'est répétitif comme un moustique bloqué dans une chambre d'hôtel à 3 heures du matin. Tu as l'impression d'écouter la même boucle pendant deux heures. Boum-tish-k-tish, Boum-tish-k-tish avec une ligne de basse qui fait "boum-boum-boum" de manière très, très sérieuse. C'est de la musique pour les gens qui voulaient se sentir "urbains" et "modernes" en 1997 sans pour autant transpirer dans un club insalubre. C'est de la Drum & Bass de table basse, de la Jungle pour vernissages d'art contemporain où l'on sert du vin blanc tiède. Il y a un côté "démonstration technique" qui m'agace prodigieusement. Oui, c'est bien produit, oui, les mecs savent jouer. Mais bordel, où est l'âme ? Où est la crasse ? On est à Bristol putain, la ville de Tricky et de Massive Attack, des gens qui savent créer des ambiances poisseuses, claustrophobes, géniales. Ici, tout est propre, tout est lisse, tout est poli, c'est du formica sonore. Le problème de la longueur est aussi rédhibitoire. Si l'album avait duré 40 minutes, en sélectionnant les meilleurs moments (parce qu'il y en a, "Brown Paper Bag" n'est pas un mauvais morceau en soi, c'est juste qu'il est noyé dans la masse), ça aurait pu être un disque sympathique, un témoignage d'une époque. Mais là, ça s'étire, ça dilue, ça remplit de l'espace avec du vide. On a l'impression que le groupe est payé à la minute. "Tiens, si on rajoutait quatre minutes de breakbeat générique ici ? Allez, vas-y, personne ne remarquera la différence avec la piste précédente." C'est d'autant plus frustrant que je suis client de musiques répétitives. J'ai passé des nuits entières sur des mixes de techno minimale ou sur des albums de post-rock qui prennent 15 minutes pour monter en pression. Mais la différence, c'est l'émotion, c'est la narration. Ici, c'est juste une boucle technique, une performance sportive sans enjeu. C'est symptomatique d'une certaine époque de la musique électronique britannique qui a cru qu'en ajoutant du jazz (souvent mal digéré), elle gagnait ses lettres de noblesse. Comme si le fait de mettre une contrebasse rendait le breakbeat plus intelligent. Spoiler : non ça le rend juste plus chiant. On a souvent comparé ça à "Timeless" de Goldie, sorti deux ans plus tôt. Mais chez Goldie, il y avait une mégalomanie, une ambition cinématographique, une folie qui manque cruellement ici. Roni Size, c'est le bon élève, c'est le premier de la classe qui a bien appris sa leçon, qui a rendu une copie impeccable, sans ratures, mais sans aucune étincelle de génie ou de folie. C'est un disque qui a très mal vieilli. Écoutez "OK Computer" aujourd'hui : ça sonne toujours comme le futur (ou un présent dystopique). Écoutez "New Forms : vous avez l'impression d'être dans une pub pour une voiture citadine de 1998 ou dans le menu d'un jeu vidéo PlayStation 1. C'est daté, c'est ancré dans son époque d'une manière qui ne pardonne pas. Je suis peut-être dur, peut-être que si j'avais 20 ans aujourd'hui et que je découvrais la jungle, je trouverais ça "rétro-cool". Mais avec mon bagage, avec mes oreilles nourries au post-punk, à l'indus et au rock qui tâche, je ne peux pas, je bloque, c'est physique. Ce disque représente tout ce que je n'aime pas dans l'évolution de la musique "club" vers le grand public : la dilution, la perte de l'urgence, le polissage des aspérités. On passe du rave illégal dans un hangar boueux à un cocktail dînatoire. Alors oui, 2 sur 5 et c'est généreux. C'est pour la technique, pour la propreté du son, et pour "Brown Paper Bag" qui reste un single efficace si on l'écoute isolément. Mais pour le reste ? C'est l'ennui mortel, c'est la boucle sans fin, c'est le jour de la marmotte version breakbeat. Si vous voulez écouter de la musique répétitive, mettez-vous un bon "Earth 2" ou un Neu!. Si vous voulez du jazz barré, mettez John Zorn. Si vous voulez de la noirceur électronique, mettez le premier Suicide. Mais laissez ce "New Forms" là où il est : dans les bacs à solde de l'histoire, rayon "Erreurs de casting du Mercury Prize".
Bass sounded cool on some tracks, interesting enough to understand why it was assigned. Overall not a style of music I enjoy and too repetitive for repeated listens.
This album is decently well-made, but that doesn’t mean it deserves 2 and a half hours. 2/5
The jungle stuff is fine but this is way too long
Not for me.
gently clattering along, with some snatches of pleasant melodies, but very repetitive
there were far better drum and bass djs around this time than this one
Bom
No, no es lo mio
Too weird and repative.
Reduced rating for this one because of the first disc containing over an hour of repetitive, generic beats. The second disc featured more interesting and jazz-infused music that I enjoyed slightly more. Nevertheless, all songs are at least 3 minutes too long.
10/11/2025 Not for me, not my jam. Spotify listeners: Roni Size: 204.9k Reprazent: 166.9k
A bit of a tedious listen.
many songs had redeeming qualities, modt were too long
Gostei de alguns arranjos que me lembram músicas dos anos 80, mas não gostei tanto das músicas por não sentir que elas me contam uma história, senti que tinha muita informação e nenhuma ao mesmo tempo, parece que você fica esperando por algo que não vem Essas musicas não fizeram muito meu estilo, mas entendo que ele tem um quê de "artístico" que devem ter levado ele até essa lista Fun note: me lembrou algo como três espiãs demais
não curti muito porque não é meu estilo de música, mas gostei bastante da transição entre as músicas
algumas partes muito massa, outras extremamente monótonas. acho que dá pra tirar bastante sample legal.
Nawwww at first it's kinda catchy until it's not...and it is SO long.
Dette er ikke helt min sjanger ass. Og det varer og rekker og varer og rekker. Nei nå er jeg lei. Denne typen musikk egner seg dårlig til å sitte å lytte til, man skal ut på gølvet med den.
5 hours? Ummm yeah I stopped after like 1 hours. Wasnt bad for that hour but I am def not listening to 5 hours of this.
This is one that has different tracks depending upon the release. I listened to the cassette release -all of disc one (15 tracks) and two tracks on disc 2. My guess is that the remaining tracks are similar in style. This is new age music plus one rap track. I would have preferred that this group selected one or two tracks for extended length and kept the rest to three minutes or so, because all tracks were too long in my opinion.
shouldn't be on this list.... it's very average. I enjoyed heroes
Nothing really stood out too much to me.
I normally enjoy drum and bass, but this one just feels really dragged out, and I also prefer drum and bass without vocals
this is not an essential album
trancey
The fast, driving rhythm and repetitive bass lines are honestly pretty fun, but I don't think I do enough ketamine to really get this album.
OK for what it IS. Bad for what it ISNT. I could listen to this. But I won't.
Really not my cup of tea. I find this sort of electronic music fairly samey and boring, especially when songs are up to 9 minutes. I doubt the ideal listening experience is a full album listen on headphones. Not terrible, but not for me.
Album duurt 5 UUR EN 14 HELE FUCKING MINUTEN. WAT IS DIT DAN?! Anyway, heb besloten dat ik alleen disc 1 ga luisteren. Vind het allemaal leuk en aardig, maar er zijn grenzen. Electronisch uit 1997 en het hit me wel. Neemt mij erg mee naar mn jeugd, en doet mij denken aan een game, maar weet niet meer welke. Ja fuck jawel, dit is de soundtrack van SSX Snowboarden! Naja, of het letterlijk die soundtrack is weet ik niet, maar wel heel erg dezelfde vibe. Oke, ik vind het best wel een oke vibe en zou dit denk ik 3 reten geven. Maar de nummers en het album in het geheel is echt veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelste lang. Aangezien ik het dus ook niet af ga luisteren is het eigenlijk 1 ster. Maar vooruit, 2 reten
Managed to listen the volume I of this set of three volumes (20th Anniversary Edition). Kind of interesting rhytmically and I like the way real instruments are used beside the cold electric overall sound. Especially the double bass part are enjoyable. Still, I don't really have a need listen this again.
På tok för långt och blir enformigt. Men inte så enformigt som jag först befarade, och nåt har det faktiskt.
Det här gjorde något med mig helt klart, men jag är inte säker på att det var något positivt.
I get it, feels like a pioneer for a like of the late 90s, early 2000s British hip hop/beat makers. Wanted to like it more but not for me.
There were a couple of songs I had heard before. But the rest of the album felt disjointed and inconsistent.
1. railing - 1.5 2. paper - 1 3. formz - 1.5 4. Get - 1.5 5. Digital - 1.5 6. Fact - 1.5 7.Mad - 0 8. Heroes - 1.5 9. Fall- 1.5 10. Windows - 1 11. Beat- 1.5
#703. I'm going to be honest, I didn't listen to this whole thing, because honestly I just couldn't be bothered. I skimmed through a bit, and they're all the same so if you listened to one, you basically know how the all are. 2/5: nah
Whatever club played this probably served watery drinks.
that was... weird?
Very experimental
понимание жанра ко мне пришло только на сравнении с ремиксом Земфиры)) для того одного ремикса ок, для жизни пожалуй я не готова
When I was around 14 I attended a course which allowed me to fiddle with a music-making program for at most an hour. This album sounds like what I created then.
Had to turn this off. Usually I rank those albums 1, but I did like what I heard. It was just song after song of the exact same. In small sample size this is good. 2/5.
very repetitive beats and tone. songs too long for being that repetitive. decent but wouldn't buy the album
The beats and musicality are very good. The main problem is the duration of the album. I would have rated it as a four-star record if it had half its real duration.
I was excited to receive and dive into this one as I'm a sucker for 90s British electronic music, and somehow hadn't ever given this album a crack despite knowing of the artist, however I'm coming away feeling a bit nonplussed by it. A strange type of jazzy, early drum and bass, it generally takes on a low key approach which probably lends itself better to being on as background music whilst reading / working. It's not quite chill out music, but equally, not really strident enough to be gym music. Some of the tracks are interesting in terms of their progressions, layering and structure, but there wasn't a lot here which really left a significant impression on me, and the nearly 80 minute running time is difficult to justify. Annoyingly, the last two tracks were unavailable on Spotify, so I had to conclude my listening via YouTube.
I am not typically a fan of electronic music, but this wasn't terrible. Decent background noise while working. BUT IT IS WAAAAAAY TOO FUCKING LONG! I would've given it a 3 straight up, but it gets a 2 for being overindulgent. 2/5 #163
The instrumental parts are nice, comfortable, jazzy-electro background listening. The kind of thing that can get you into a flow. The lyrics interrupt this and are annoying. And the whole thing is too long.
Good to listen to different stuff, but definitely not my thing
good background music for jenga
Definitely not my cup of tea, acoustically. A little all over the place, and although I respect the courage to experiment, just not for me.
not for me
Not for me and that's okay.
This is the "i aint reading all that, i'm happy for you, or sorry that happened" meme in album form. I got a few songs before calling it quits. In the spirit of this experiment I'd like to have attempted to listen to the whole thing, but the length on this album is insane. Low 2.
Knew exactly what I was getting into when I saw it was a 2 hour and 20 minute long DnB album, and I left that album exactly as underwhelmed and upset as I knew I was going to. Just such much repetition throughout the whole first side which I gave a fair chance. But the second side i had to skip around to some songs because I could not do the whole thing. Went to some of the singles to see if I recognized them but did not.
Oh man this sucker is long! Seems only the first two discs are part of the actual album but even that is still over 2 hours. Gonna have to break this bad boy up. Definitely enjoyed parts of it but man they did not need to be as long as they were. By the end it was a job to listen to.
This Drum and Bass album was decent background music for cleaning the house and working. It’d be alright for a dance party. But it just doesn’t feel like something I wanna spend time to dig into. There’s nothing irritating or offputting about it, but also nothing that really excited or intrigued. Both the songs and the album are long and repetitive, but without enough variation or interesting sounds to grab me (though some subtlety changing moments are quite nice). The he’s of double bass as a primary instrument is pretty cool though.
mot my styy
Too many drumbeats
Uninspired and repetitive