En-Tact

Solid old-school EDM, not really my thing

Sounded ahead of its time. Would honestly be better as a full instrumental album.

Sounds good but it's not my jam.

This was okay for the genre that I'm not a huge fan of.

Representative of early rave music. You can feel the MDMA and acid on this one, not just the obvious lyrics, but also the busy overlapping and repeating synths that immerse you into this industrial techno world. The effects are pretty simple and follows a lot of 80s synthpop, but with the fusion of psychedelic rock, it shares a lot in common with Madchester bands like Stone Roses and Primal Scream. I thought it was pretty decent, coherent while offering quite a bit, but nothing outstanding. Favorites: Human NRG, Omega Amigo, Lightspan

After listening to over an hour of this, I see the book uses the 1990 vinyl tracklist, with no repeat tracks. Well that’s just fantastic, how was anyone supposed to know that? & one of the guys died promoting this album? En-Tact is really sending me down a rabbit hole, and it’s not even 10am! I wonder if this would be rated as low as it is without all the fluff needed to pad this to a CD length. If I pretend the album ended at “Hear Me” like the book promised, then I’d say it was decently enjoyable. (The 3rd song where the lyrics going back to “Move any Mountain” in the online version didn’t do much for me) Right now it's a 3-star for me, if more for the textures & samples over the singing (& especially rapping). Certain 90s electronica I've been exposed to goes past right dated, into a dusty backroom & through the looking glass to a strange world where club music and the RuneScape soundtrack weren't all that far apart. And I kinda like it Only other case of album version madness like this is Opus Dei by Laibach, which is a fascinating 40 minute album to me but an interminable 60 minute album, with all the extra CD tracks. HL: “Move any Mountain” (which technically isn’t even in the *real* tracklist), “Hyperreal” (either of the two versions), “Possible Worlds”, “Omega Amigo”

6/10. Actually pretty good. I think my biggest problem with electronic music is just that it had its heyday in an era when everyone felt that just because cds had space for 70 minute albums, they should make their albums 70 minutes

Awfully dated, including a boatload of parody-level hokey electronic effects and flourishes. Not a big fan of most of the vocals, sung or rapped, either. Not terrible but not something I'd generally bother with.

fine.

Not really my thing, but I’ve listened to way worse albums on this list.

Bouncing techno beat. Wonderful mind space for Friday

Whoa, rewind to 1990. I remember "Move any Mountain" which apparently wasn't even on the original release. I enjoyed it as background to work and clued in to a few tunes, but it sounded VERY 90s. A lot of the big names of the time (Oakenfold, Orbit, Dangers, 808 state) guested on this album. Solid but also made me feel old.

Groovy sounds, something to chill to. I’m dowwnnnnnnn.

Not too bad, but it got repetitive.

Surprisingly fun and dancey - sure it’s a little dated but it’s a pumping album. Maybe the 90s overly optimistic rave hippie culture sounds naive and laughable but also if you take it in earnestness it’s a bit refreshing after the mountains of cynicism that came since.

I’m not sure why, but I liked this one. I won’t listen to the whole thing through again, but I’ll happily add a few tracks to my mindless background noise playlist.

Pretty good. Not a necessary listen, but good.

Actually pretty entertaining!

Another cool electronic dance album! Perfectly 90's with a hint of 80's as it enters the new decade. Good one to end the week on!

I bet that was awesome dance music when it came out. Great rhythm. Not my style, not impressed with the musicality. Won't listen again.

Es una mezcla interesante y rara de generos :D

Quite pleasant, yet not particularly noteworthy 🐡 3,5/5

Ah, the 90s. What a decade. Would rather have had Boss Drum as the Shamen album, but this was just what I needed for a post-Bank Holiday Tuesday.

Solid slab of 90's dance music

En-Tact is the fourth album by Scottish band the Shamen. This is an electronic album that saw a combination of the band's past psychedelic rock with the new EDM. En-Tact performed averagely well critically and commercially. I'm a fan of EDM music so this album was fun to hear. It was nice to listen to an album from the early days of rave music and even cooler that the band transitioned from rock music.

More entertaining than i initially expected, still 3 stars but a fun 3 stars.

not bad

Meh

Liked this loads more than I thought I would. Tbf I thought it was going to be the worst shit of all time

Pretty good. Was digging the grooves. It was a fun listen.

Today’s album is by an artist that I haven’t come across before. I cant really talk about any preconceptions because of this, but it was surprising to see that the genre on Apple Music is dance. The 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die book has very few dance albums in it, so let’s find out what makes this better than the others. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Move Any Mountain, Omega Amigo I’ll start by saying that I don’t necessarily agree that this album should be considered essential. It was decent fun, and I was humming the hook to Move Any Mountain through the day, but I don’t necessarily hear anything here that differentiates it from many other dance albums. I did enjoy the album, so I don’t want it to sound like I felt it was bad, but it certainly didn’t blow me away.

surprisingly better than expected

I don’t love the genre but it was surprisingly fun and mindless work music.

3.5

Had never heard of this band before. It's pretty typical early 90s rave music, really. Wiki claims psychedelic rock mixed in there too, which... Kinda I guess? But really it's some rather generic bouncy EDM. Honestly liked this somewhat, but it's pretty dated and rather samey. Doubt I'll come back to it, but you never know.

Nie von denen gehört, ist aber irgendwie interessant, 90s vibes

I don't know why people were so down on this. For the most part, it's your standard electronica fare. Harmless enough. "666 Edit," "Move Any Mountain" "Human NRG" were all pretty good. But just as with any electronica for me, none of it is very distinctive. The songs get very repetitive after awhile. I think my favorite was the "666 edit", but the others start to blur together after awhile. It was fine, but not mind-blowing. Next.

Another one I'm not sure I needed to hear before I die. The first half of the album had a lot of good moments - plenty of cool sounding tracks that made me bop (e.g., Move Any Mountain, Omega Amigo, Evil is Even (cool track - properly dark sounding), Hyperreal Orbit, Lightspan, Make It Mine, and Oxygen Restriction). After that, though, it was just a bunch of meh remix-y type stuff. Got pretty boring. So, solid 3, but not planning to revisit.

Interesting concept of mixing prog rock and electronic music but the album becomes rather forgettable after the initial uniqueness wears off

Electronica!

This was long and I thought it would be repititive, but it's wasn't. Parts of it were pretty darn catchy. I'd like to come back but don't know if I will. 1 - bad 2 - average 3 - good 4 - great 5 - outstanding

Bit dated byt good fun

Música electrónica fácil de escuchar, sin ser demasiado estruendosa. Para entusiastas del género

pensé q era de rap pero nada q ver

Future feeling, new sensation Body is rocking and the mind is reeling And rolling race changing motion Flowing like a river into the ocean Better get yourself ready for the new vibration My vision, one nation, one tribe One day'll come the might to move any mountain 3/5

I felt sure I knew The Shamen by name, but couldn't place their music. Sure enough the album opener "Move Any Mountain" was the song I was thinking of. Decent 90s electro-indie-rave type stuff, but much like an extended trip it went on a bit too long and didn't really progress to great heights that were hinted at earlier.

It has some good passages of nice grooves and interesting beats, but overall it lacked the energy to keep me engaged.

Some fun bops, good background music. Nothing really stands out though

It was fine... Just sounds like any other 90s dance album???

This was decent electronic music. I liked it well enough. Not sure what might have been especially noteworthy about it, though.

And mountains they did move. But an entire album of Shamen is of limited interest

Literally have never heard of this band in my life. It was pretty fun, but the rapping part is a bit much. Can definitely see myself using this as focus music down the road. It was hard to find standouts because the music is pretty repetitive, but some stuff definitely stuck out a bit among the tracks. Standouts: Move Any Mountain, Make It Mine, 666 Edit

Move any mountain great tune the rest was OK. No ezzehe good though.

Enjoyable synth sounds. electro hand clap cla-cla-cla hand clap.

79/100: Feeling very blessed by the album generator today. It’s not that this was my favorite album so far anything close to that. I had to wake up at 2:30AM to get to the airport this morning, so I really needed an album that would keep me up. Boy did this do the job. At certain points I felt like I was traveling through space and time as opposed to heading south down I-65. Very good album for what it is; however, I don’t think I ever plan on casually listening to this.

Sva wel nie fenomenaal fzo

Good songs in general, but not my personal favourite genre.

Not a bad race music album, enjoyed the listen for background music

Electronic is my favourite genre of music (well, EDM, precisely), but I wasn’t really feeling this album. I didn’t hate it but it felt detached and emotionless.

I've mentioned before how I rarely listen to EDM and related styles (I'm quite ignorant of this area of music, so please forgive me if I've mislabeled this album as EDM), so I'm glad this project is introducing me to these forms. This is good stuff. I like it and I'm glad I heard it.

3.5

Música electrónica. Ni fu ni fa.

Overall I liked it. Suffers from being one of the first, so sounds a bit generic now. However some enjoyable tracks - Evil is Even Hear Me Not really interesting enough to listen to again though.

Djelomičan đir

This list has a bit of a sheen attachment with British 90s EDM. Almost guaranteed to make it. It was ok

Good fun listen. Not great though.

3.75

Alright album of kinda dance trance music. Why is this on here? Oh, it’s Scottish. That’s why.

This was their best album before they went bobbins with e’s are good etc. Goes on a bit long, but some decent tunes.

The most 90's dance thing I've heard in a while. Album's way too long but I enjoyed it a fair bit.

Not bad. Decent electronic album annoying at times. One track where it's skipping was particularly awful. But overall okay

Good kept me moving during a garadge cleanup

Surprised by how much I didn't hate this.

didnt really like it idk

My first impression was a pretty negative one. But after two or three tracks it started growing on me (or maybe they started off with their worst). Still not an album I'd actively listen to. But absolutely fine for background in the right mood.

Solid

Pas un style que je connais beaucoup, mais j'entend plein de chose que j'ai entendu plus tard dans d'autres album. C'est pas égale, mais il y a des éléments que j'aime bien. Pas un disque que j'écouterais régulièrement, mais je suis content de l'avoir écouté.

Surprised how much i enjoye$ this one.

It's very 1990. It's not the best album ever, it's very of its time. The best thing about it was that Ebeneezer Goode played once it ended. There's some great moments on there, but a lot of it is overlong - 2 minute ideas spread over 5. It wasn't unenjoyable, but definitely isn't a classic. Obviously meant to be enjoyed on a couple of pingers, after which I'm sure it sounds like deep heat for the soul.

ok

This gives me Night At The Roxbury vibes. Pretty good NGL though very dated sounding

Ohh yeah! Part of the soundtrack for the 90’s indie/techno rave parties Nice flash back!

Fun collection of some big beats/remixes. Probably you really have to be in a dancing mood to enjoy this, in which case it’s pretty good. But outside of that environment this becomes a pretty tough listen. It verges on trance music at times with how repetitive it is, but I have to say I am impressed that it’s 30+ years old. 6/10

Big fish, little fish, cardboard box.

It sounded like dated late 80s/early 90s dance music but it did sound like the pre-cursor to a lot of music that I have enjoyed.

some real bad and hard to listen during day. but not the worst.

Great album to dance to.

Englandsnostalgía.

Upbeat house/dance music. Not my normal type of thing, but not bad. Vocals perhaps a little lacking.

Not terrible but pretty generic.

Música electrónica. Ni fu ni fa.

It was alright but really just made we want to listen to Daft Punk.

This has a very 1990 sound... some 80s, some 90s, some elements of music not yet to come. I thought it was fine, but not too enjoyable.

Move any mountain is a tune, the rest were ok but not great

Bit dafter than the orb, better than I thought it might be

Full of recognisable hits, this was a major transition for the Shamen from a previous incarnation as yet another goth psych band into a fully fledged rave dance act. The album sounds a little dated now, and production, while good, lacks the punch of later dance releases. Possibly also down to the relentless chase to overcompress and maximise the volume that has been a common feature of electronic dance music for the last 20 years. Top tracks: Move Any Mountain, Omega Amigo, Hyperreal Orbit

pretty good

Простенько

i've tried so hard to like these guys. they have one track that's an absolute standout for me (destination eschaton - all-time favorite, no question), but no matter where i look, i only find that track is just unlike most of their work. this album was fine, don't get me wrong - and a huge statement for 1990, for sure - but it really wasn't what i love about them.

80's new wave, but i don't remember it, and the first 2 songs weren't interesting

I'm travelling so I didn't  have a lot of time to spend listening to this. Move Any Mountain  is full  of energy and fun beats so grabs your attention at the start. Hyperreal Orbit is a better song imo  better but surprisingly has over 90% fewer listens on Spotify. Ditto Lightspan.  Generally speaking, I prefer music with lyrics but the lyrics on Human NRG and Omega Amigo don't add much so I would rather they left them aside. I like the vocals on Possible Worlds but, having said that, I'm not 100% sure they are vocals as opposed to synths. Regardless, I like that track too.  This was an interesting listen. I like more trucks than I dislike for sure but still not sure.

I noticed that the opening track & lead single “Move Any Mountain” was not on the original UK release, which is great IMO because it sounds like Stereo MCs and I’m not a fan of thin, indie type vocals trying to sound high-energy over-top of dance music. I prefer the tracks with vocal effects vs singing. It adds cred that up and coming DJ producers of the era (Oakenfold, Orbital, 808 State) remixed a number of them. The series that starts with “Hyperreal Orbit” is good. The synths set the mood and I like the effects (though they’re dated now). I was going to give it a 4 but the last track was a re-rub of the first….

I had a sister who was a couple of years older than me (still is in fact) and so I used to hear some of these tunes blasting from her bedroom. Pure 90's dance. Best Tracks: Move Any Mountain, Omega Amigo, 666 Edit

Bit of nostalgia, couple of really good tracks but the rest haven’t aged so well.

The sound of 90s electronic 🎶

Nice

Good album for working out. I’m not sure how often I’d listen to it on my own, but it’s decent. I especially like Omega Amigo!

A high energy ball of fun. A little one note and very early 90s dance but I still enjoyed it. Vocals were meh.

This is fine… some interesting sounds going on here and there I guess. I just…do not understand the appeal of listening to music like this outside the context of a club or a car chase scene in an action movie or something lol

Fun album, nice to dance to. Still feels a bit dated now!

Raveros no enteros, acid house y techno rock y algo de ambient, a la altura de los primeros Primal Scream.

I am surprised I liked it, but I did.

Hyvää settiä, sopii hyvin työskentelyyn taustamusaksi :) semmosia 80 luvun synakikkailun jälkimaininkeja, itselleni tuntematon bändi ja levy etupeltoon.

Not really my cup of tea, but sounds good!

electronica, Psychedelic rock + Rave, könnte Soundtrack für einen Film sein, starke 3

Not the worst thing I’ve ever listened to. Most songs were pretty catchy, but it definitely reminded me of the band they form in Revenge of the Nerds.

Kinda mindless techno-ish, not my bag

Enjoyable, surprisingly catchy and positive hooks, makes you want to get up and dance. Feels like I should be on speed in a 90s office. Or tripping balls at a house party. Very little in between. Much of it melts into each other although you shouldn't be sober enough to realize it any way. Standout Tracks: Move Any Mountain, Possible Worlds, Omega Amigo, Evil Is Even

1.5. I’ve been getting more into electronic music recently but this just wasn’t it for me.

Thin, ethereal vapor with EDM beats. Would be great in a club but isn’t much of a listening experience.

No more please.

Not really my sort of thing and I never did like this lot back in the day. Turns out I still don’t.

This one won’t appeal to fans of the genre as they are a bit like The Farm were to indie kids. Neither will it appeal to everyone else, because, well it’s rubbish! OK as background music but it went on way too long.

Well at least that has confirmed my opinion of 36 years ago that I throughly wasted £15 buying the CD. Just utterly uninspiring tunes which are completely bettered by pretty much any of their contemporaries I can think of. No place on this list (even with the absent Eberneezer Goode).

Ik weet niet of er veel goeds komt uit 1990.. ik heb toch het gevoel dat de electronische muziek nog niet helemaal rijp is om echt vet te zijn, t klinkt daardoor ook best gedateerd. De teksten zijn een beetje generiek alsof t is gegenereerd door ChatGPT uit de 90s.

It's electronic dance music. Sometimes interesting, sometimes exotic, sometimes sinister, but it's always a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat with a bunch of samples layered on top. Not for me.

Pretty bland and repetitive. Rounding down from 2.5/5.

So, I finally took the bait and looked it up. There are 80 Electronica/Ambient/Synth Pop albums on this list. 80. To paraphrase, what the editors have done is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever seen. At no point in their incoherent rambling were they even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this project is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

My body is barely en-tact after that spin.

Before my time and feels very dated now, sure there were better examples of dance music from this era which could have been picked over this

I had almost forgotten about "Move Any Mountain." Loved that song back in the day. Listening again, it sounds. . . very dated. The album as a whole, even more so. Not a terrible album, just a mediocre late 80s/early 90s album.

This wasn't very exciting and it was very long.

No em intereso tanto pero la onda me gusta

not the ebst indie album i've ever heard by a mile

There are so many Scottish/Irish/English electronic artists on this list! I think the guy who made the list has a particular genre he likes.

its really really really okay whatever

Dance music for Dags.

Ugh.

Pure dance music with strong and pleasant beats, good for dancing your soul out when drunk.

To my surprise, when this started I actually thought I was going to like this quite a bit. However, this is just too long and too same-y, and from “666 Edit” onwards I didn’t really like anything from this album.

This was a bit of a slog. I only knew The Shamen for their hits (all two of them) but they were fun enough so went in with high hopes. This is like New Order meets The Orb meets East 17. In not a good way. The rap verses were dreadful, and the middle of the album was just not up to the standard of other dance music of that era. I didn’t outright hate it but it was rather boring in a genre that I usually really like.

Off the bat, this feels so dated. And not in like a cool way, in a very oh I know what this is gonna be kind of way. I don't hate it, but I just think it needs more variety in it. I also wish this album were just instrumental. Cause the vocals really put me off at several points. I find it to be quite forgettable, and I think it can go to the extreme of being annoying as well. Fav Track: Make It Mine

Make It Mine is an absolute belter of a track but apart from that this wasn’t for me whatsoever

Nah, feel like we've gotten a lot of shit like this lately. It's not my vibe, even if it was a precursor to modern edm.

I really didn’t like that… felt like I was in a douche fragrance commercial the entire time. 1.6

I can get into this fun weirdness for a little while. An hour is too much. And the vocals are truly awful. If it was just the instrumental parts, I’d give it a 3.

Just because there are some interesting production effects and sounds, and because it is at least listenable, I will not say this album is horrendous. But it is pretty uninteresting and bland. The songs are simply based on repeating the same elements over and over, and, even though I can find what was innovative at the time, it is music that can only be enjoyed while dancing (if so). There is not an actual listening value rather than the repetition of certain elements that can be more or less catchy. But, still, it lacks of some substance. Many songs are just an endless flow of the same chorus with nothing else to break it or disturb it. There is no tension, there is no narrative through the music, nor something to transmit rather than "let's go partying". But, then, what I may value production-wise is what this album also lacks of an actual musical interest. So, I cannot say I have enjoyed it. It is not an album for listening. And. I like listening to music, not ignoring it and just having as a background of my mood. And, in this sense, this album is very plain.

Was hoping for something interesting but was let down really badly. This was dull and boring and it slipped in to background noice territory quickly. Still I wouldn't actively "change channel" so to say if this would come up from radio or from some playlist.

Fun at first but far too long to really enjoy. 2.0/5.0

pretty decent but way too long

Pretty meh for me and very long.

This is rounding up to 2, because 66 edit was somewhat enjoyable. But it might have been because I listened to repetitive noise for 35 minutes before getting to it.

I think house music is so important, but: a) house is from chicago b) I didn’t dig this album

Random thoughts: * Early techno/rave music. Started out pretty catchy but got a bot repetitive and annoying. * I listened to this while making dinner and was quite into the first 3 tracks. Then it started to fade for me. I had to drop out at "666 Edit" * I cam back and listened to the rest from "666 Edit" to the end while working and this music works much better for background work music than cooking music. * I appreciated the catchiness of "Move Any Mountain" and those first few tracks clocked in at a 3-star review * The later tracks were more 2-star review territory. * I'm going to grade on the hard curve here. Definite pioneers in the genre. But doesn't really hold up and isn't interesting enough to keep my modern attention.

At times the listen was dated, with the electronic elements not achieving the euphoria it probably managed upon release, and without hearing anything this movement might have inspired. At other times, I do hear things that stick out and feel different, Kraftwerk vibes kind of. Like most of the electronic albums on this generator, I've felt it drag, and the remixes and echoing feels a bit like a chore of a listen that first time around. A second listen on some farther away speakers and wow that first song was really annoying. I don't have any problems with the genre or most of the songs individually, but the way this record is put together doesn't please me. 2.3/5

Super super mid I don’t need to listen to this more than once Way too long for all the songs to sound the same 2/5 Favorite: progen 91

Electronic, not very interesting

Samples, drum machines, ambient sounds, club music leave me cold

Active listening: Worst thing I've ever heard. Passive listening: Not the worst thing I've ever heard. Ok beats to fold laundry to.

very of its time (derogatory)

First Listen; 2; An album that could have been a single or condensed mix. There's fun loops and samples in here, but it drags on for far too long. As an album, it's repetitive and the lyrics aren't very good at all. At the same time, I still got some enjoyment out of it and certainly slots in if you're looking for a 90s rave style track. I could see how this would be more fun put together in a mix, but that's not what's here. Favorite Track: Move Any Mountain

I "enjoyed" this more than I expected. Definitely not my favourite genre (or a genre I'm familiar with). However, if for some highly unlikely reason, I ended up in a dance club, this would be actually ok. It is pretty varied and, for instance, I enjoyed "Move Any Mountain" or "Make It Mine" (with its guitar riff). This is between 2 and 3 stars for me. It may have reached 3 stars if it had been 20 min shorter, and/or if it had included a few more tracks with the guitar sound of "Make it Mine".

I have no idea. Is it British? Does it really belong on the list? Will I be happy or angry or somewhere else when I listen to it? Ha! British? Yes! Belong on the list? NO! Happy I heard this? Um… it felt like a parody that a YouTube creator would make of everything cringy from the period. So- I did laugh out loud. I scared my dogs. But, I think I lost intelligence… 2 Boolean: FALSE

It’s not noise, but it’s quite boring and way too long. Favourite: Move Any Mountain

As a child of the 90s who went to raves this is awful. 2 stars as there were maybe 3 songs that were ok. But otherwise there is so much better electronic than this out there.

Listenable. Once. In the background.

Techno isn’t really my favorite kind of music, so I went into this one with low expectations. The first few tracks were actually entertaining and had some energy that kept me interested. After that the album started to feel repetitive and I lost focus pretty quickly. It settled into a pattern that became boring for me the longer it went on. I did notice what felt like some Kraftwerk influence in the electronic structures and the clean, mechanical side of the sound, though I’m not completely sure if that’s accurate or just my own impression. The production is typical of early rave and techno from that period. The Shamen handled most of it themselves, with various mixers and collaborators helping shape the final tracks. It has that early 90s electronic club energy, but the overall result didn’t hold my attention all the way through.

A berserk and brilliant rave in the morning sunshine, perfect with the windows down in the car, ideal in the gym, somehow it's still going when you're leaving and driving to work, somehow it's still going while you're trying to actually do something with your life, and the rave has long since ended. Less long than it feels, which isn't probably a quote they'd put on the posters.

I absolutely despised this lot at the time. Sure, I was a grunge and metal kid and I didn't like that - in my country at least - these guys and their ilk were getting a lot of air time beyond what my guys were getting, and sure I didn't like that these guys were being sung by the then and future flag-waving, Stop The Boats, Reform Will Save Us types (ironic guven the group's own political persuasions)... but beyond all that, the music was just a bit shit. Listening now, I don't hate it anymore. It's incredibly dated, but you can hear its influence. I certainly don't like it, but there's a limited fondness given I have sampled Move Any Mountain in my own monstrous anti-music destructions.

Ça sent le og

not for me

I like a lot of electronic music but I can’t stand this style.

Within seconds, my anti-electronica alarm paused as I got an Elastica vibe, one of my few exceptions to this genre. But it did not last. The songs grew on me, like a fungus. Not good. My apologies to those who appreciate this, I wish you the best.

Oh man here we go …cheesy AF start … 😬. No dude. 👎. Perhaps if it was just instrumental this would be OK but man the singing and lyrics are cringe. And too long.

It's actually crazy how lame this is.

This was just... sinfully boring. I can't be nice to these bad albums anymore

boring

Not really my kind of electronica. I didn't feel much listening to this one. Favorite track: Move Any Mountain

While it’s not offensive, it’s just whatever, background music to me.

If I'm being generous, this is on the cusp between 2 and 3. It's truthfully not that different from Massive Attack, which I gave a 3, but this just feels... dumber? I don't have a nicer way to say that. Yeah, pass.

Midrate 90s electronic music. It is the era and sound I hate the most.

Some decent stuff, but I feel like the vocals took a lot from the project overall.

Really plain boring dance music. Disappointed as I'd heard a bit of praise for these before - but this is just so generic.

It was decent but nothing special about it for me

Rave music. The percussion drew me in, the electronics are catchy. I didn't dislike this. It was 2 or 3 stars.

I really wish I had been listening to this somewhere cool and genre appropriate vs outside in the sun

This sounds like menu music for one of those demo cds that came with the PlayStation 1. One of those albums where I check the run time three songs in and despair. Pretty repetitive and dated.

Favorite track was Human NRG. I still think there's too much electronic music on this list. This one was fairly fun, but got a little drone-y for me toward the end. Maybe a lil too long.

House, dance, rave... not really the type of music that I can deeply analyze so let's just leave this at... it was fine.

Maybe a nice opener for a rave event

Top album? Really?

I thought shamans were all about nature spiritsor something like that, but apparently they mostly deal in empty platitudes. You learn something new every day.

Tämä oli sitä europop aikaa. En kuitenkaan ollut tähän aiemmin tutustunut.

Listening to this makes me think that there's a psychic trying to explode my brain. Favourite Track(s): 666 Edit, Human NRG Least Favourite Track(s): Hear Me, Lightspan Lightwave

Not my cup of tea.

I would describe this as night club dance music. It was somewhat energizing while I was cleaning out my fridge, but it can get kind of repetitive if you're focusing too hard on it.

This project really seems focused on convincing everyone that 90s UK club music is the most significant music created by humans. I wonder when the authors happened to be 22 years old lol.

Pretty bad

It was OK, but rather annoying.

I feel like it had promise as a funky synth 90s-vibe jam, but a lot of the songs were just meh.

This feels like I am in a movie about arcade games from the 80s.

hyped asf for this. didn’t really end up fucking with it. sad. i kind of just found it annoying.

This is just so dated and too long.

Oh joy, another electronic album. :-/ If I were listening to this in a dark, smoky club at 3am in 1994... well, I won't say I would ENJOY it, but it would make more sense than listening to it in my office on a Tuesday morning in 2026.

My God this album is tedious. Just the same beats or tempo with very little variation for over an hour. I had my hopes up with the first song, "Move Mountains," which is kind of Charlatans UK/Stone Roses shoegaze-like but then it just descended into a boring rave of sameness. By the end I had tuned it out completely. I get what they were trying to do and appreciate the fusion they were going for...but mix it up a little.

Would probably be a 3 stars for me if it weren't so long and samey. I appreciate that these guys are into more of a fusion, mixing in elements of rock and rap into electronic, but the rap is straight up cringe, and it sounds very dated today. Some good songs, even sound a little like Depeche Mode on a few tracks. This would be a 2.5 for me if possible, but closer to a 2 than 3, started to grate around the 45 min mark

oh but it was boring. It all sounded the same and went on forever.

Please help me understand.

meh

Didn't hate it but can't really say I liked it. I am just lost with these older electronica albums. With most of the popular genres I can fit the records into a story of subcultures and influences that helps me appreciate them even if they aren't exactly my thing. But to me this just sounds like an alternate fan soundtrack to the Matrix. Yes I know the Matrix hadn't come out yet, no I don't care. I didn't dislike listening to it so it isn't a 1, but I can't rate it a 3 because I don't think I can make a coherent statement about any of the tracks, except there was something about mountains...

Too long.

very house! i think environment matters when listening to this. would be much more fun in a club and not sitting in my bed listening off of my laptop.

It’s dance music that I can’t imagine dancing to. There are some fun moments, and some really annoying moments which are unfortunately exacerbated by the album’s length. Not a fan.

Slot this in there with the Pet Shop Boys and Erasure. This is the type of music I imagine would be playing in a gay bar. And that’s fine I’m just letting someone reading this know that I suffered through enough of it that they don’t have to.

This makes me want to punch something. 2

#954. Good techno is already tiresome, bad techno is literally torture. 2/5: it sucks

listening to this at 7:45 while stone cold sober maybe not the best way to properly enjoy their music

Fine but just too long.

When we say that something is average, we mean that it is consistent. And this album is consistently bad, that is, it's average. 2 stars.

As with most electronic stuff, this wasn’t for me. It was fine as background music, but was too samey and repetitive to be engaging. They clearly realised that album opener ‘Move Any Mountain’ was the best track, as they essentially repeat it (albeit at greater length) for the closer. In general, however, I preferred the instrumental tracks as the vocals and lyrics were poor. I enjoyed the guitar parts on ‘Possible Worlds’ and ‘Make It Mine’. Apart from that, I’m really struggling to think of anything else that stood out at all. Nice to know they were against apartheid, though.

Very techno and repetitive. But not horrible.

kinda boring maybe just hasn't aged well

A bit cheesy-pie, innit?

Nostalgic sound but nothing to make it a must listen

Wanted to give it a 1 just due to the pure uselessness of it being on this list. Especially when another track of theirs that autoplayed was better than anything from this album. But, there were a few tracks in the second half that were decent enough.

Not really my style, and there’s a lot of it.

Highlights: Progen (Land of Oz), Omega Amigo, Lightspan, Make It Mine V2.5

No idea! Scottish psychedelic rock: Primed to love. Though I think it may be too dancey for me. Certainly for a crammed af flight to Austin. Perhaps I wait. HA are they rapping too? I should really probably wait but this is cute. Somehow I’m writing a ptsd evaluation on a packed flight while listening to this album and I don’t hate it. And yet I didn’t like it?

I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. This is an electronic dance album. It doesn't really do much for me, and I would not listen again.

boring

I didn't mind it. Can't tell if these guys are on here because they're in some way influential, but to my electronica-averse ears I didn't hear much of anything unique.

The whole new agey techno-hippie vibe is decidedly not for me, but despite lacking depth and complexity to my ear, this slowly won me over a bit as some decent trippy background music. Not something that'd hold my attention for very long; but tbf I don't think that's the intended way to listen to this anyway.

I can almost see the flashing lights and frenetic energy of the dancers as well as smell the conflated reek of sweat, cologne, perfume and spilled drinks in a club I only want to get the hell out of.

Dance club electronica with vocals. Maybe it was groundbreaking at some point? But now it sounds somple and stereotypical. A 2.

You can practically smell the dry ice being pumped around the Top of the Pops stage. I mean, this is as 1990s as you can get. I hear this and I’m seven years old again. Zig and Zag are teeing up shows like James Bond Jr. and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles on the other channel, and I’m eating a luminous yellow “Roy of the Rovers” bar (which I'm guessing has since been taken out of circulation for health reasons). It may be incredibly dated, but I have to admit that “Move Any Mountain” is an enjoyable tune. The rest of the album went by me in a haze, and I don’t mean the same type of haze that afflicted the ravers of the 90s. I can hear what The Shamen were trying to do, and at times there were a few interesting moments, like the dark minimalist guitar tones in “Evil is Even”. It just feels completely stuck in 1990, and mostly sounds like the menu music in an old Namco arcade game.

Quickly moved down to annoying, made worse due to the three different releases with different tracks, length, and order. What does that say about their belief in their product?

Other than the opening track, which is a great single, there isn't much that stands out on this album. A fairly decent 90s dance album, but not exactly something that I feel is an essential album to listen to.

Remarkably boring club music.

Techno

Mi(n)d-lessly repetitive dance instead of being psychedelic and hypnotic. This kind of dance definitely didn't age well. It was quite underwhelming like they were repeating the same motifs and beats from one song, and calling that an album?? Go guys give us nothing 👏 (2.5)

I was wondering how we got from Kraftwerk to 90's electronic music and bet it was The Shamen. The album was all sorts of 90's cheesy, but that's the beauty of it. This was like the Sonic Youth of electronic. Had some good sounds but no super bangers.

There are a few decent tracks on here, but it should not be over an hour. If they released this as 6-8 of the best tracks, it might have crossed over into the US and become a classic. At times, they're pretty good at imitating the best US producers of the time, but some other songs are quite corny and the "rapping" is downright bad. Yet again, I need to point out that this list is packed with second rate UK copies of pioneering Black contemporaries in Chicago, Detroit, and New York. Take this off the list and add in the real artists who originated, innovated, and elevated dance music in the 80s/90s.

generøs 2'er. Tog en evighed at komme igennem

Måske lidt et stretch at absolut skulle høre den her før man dør, men synes det var ret charmerende! Altid sjovt at høre tidlig elektronisk musik

Felt very long. Sounded like its time. 90s soft electro techno thing

Well, that was something.

Very tiresome

2 out of 5. Some nice beats/rhythms but still kinda boring for me.

I owned this album in the early 90's as I was a bit of an EDM fan. I remember giving it exactly one listen back then. During this listen, I remembered why...it's lifeless. The singing sounds so disinterested, and so much of the album plods along at a medium pace.

Eh ok. Don’t hate, don’t love.

I just can’t with these mediocre house albums anymore

2 more days to go and I'm done with this list. After it all, I can really say that the worst stuff here really is are the House albums. Must be an european thing, but to think that these are still relevant today makes no sense to me. This list really needs quite the update and they should hire somebody else to do it while they're at it.

Another album to just zone-out your mind and waiting for it to finish.

my first proper foray into acid house music (at least that i can remember) and whilst it is pretty good for what it is and made good background music as i did my assessment task, i don't think i will ever return to it again outside of maybe 2 songs. Fav Song: Possible Worlds: Deep PSI Least Fav: Evil is Even

2 Inoffensive, boring though

Never heard of The Shamen and understand why, it's by no way in my taste. The shitty electronic sound of the 80's is so prevalent that I would enjoy a trip at the dentist 10_000 times more than listening to this album. Hopefully the second part of the album redeems it a bit. Favorite songs: Possible Worlds: Deep Psi

Going from Aphex Twin to this is a drastic shift in quality. I just didn’t like this. I think my favorite song here was 666 Edit because of the sharp synth tones. Probably would not revisit this. Could have been worse. At least it was only a hour.

Very boring electronic stuff, maybe like 3 catchy songs and the rest just falls in the background extremely easily.

Franchement, je voulais l'aimer, cet album. Vraiment. J'ai vu que c'était un album d'électronique, j'étais content. Je me suis dit que ça changeait un petit peu. Malheureusement, à l'écoute, j'ai un peu déchanté. C'était pas affreux, bien au contraire, il y avait pas mal de passages sympathique. Le gros défaut, c'est qu'il n'y a pas beaucoup de dynamique, c'est plutôt plat du début à la fin. Et ça dure une heure ! Alors forcément, la lassitude finit par s'installer. J'ai longuement hésité à mettre 3, mais je me suis quand même un peu trop ennuyé pour ça, alors ça sera un 2.

It's a rare piece of electronic music that I vibe with. This just isn't my jam at all. It was inoffensive, clearly well done, and I did rather enjoy the bit where the sudden bursts of silence functioned almost as percussion.

It’s not shit, but it is very unenjoyable. Unless you’re gurning your tits off on about 8 doves, I suspect.

Repetitive electronic music. Most of the lyrics are whispered. Hard to keep myself interested towards the end. 2/5 Won't listen again

Sounds pretty dated these days, but at least it's not the Shamen of a year or so later when they were churning out rubbish like Ebeneezer Goode. Drags on far too long though. Sorry boys, I can't give this more than two even if you are from Aberdeen.

Just not my Jam at all

umas parecem música genérica de menu de um jogo ruim, outras são até interessantes. enfim, nada demais. um pouco longo e eh isso

1 hit wonder on here

Just wanted to acknowledge that if this were a U.S.-based list it wouldn’t have all this early ‘90s electronica. I’d be fine with that. Yay, I’ve now heard some old club music that aged poorly! (ntm.)

meh

Listened Before? N Uhhhh.... what? I'm assuming this was influential in some way but I can't be bothered to waste time looking it up. Pretty not great and dated. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Possible Worlds

Interesting album, don't like everything on it but it has a certain vibe to it that makes it in a way an enjoyable listen. Too long for its good but some good electronic music. Not many songs I would listen on a random day tho. 1. Move any mountian 2. Possible Worlds: Deep PSI 3. Make It Mine

way too long

You know, I went into this wanting to like this, despite all of the negative reviews on this site, and I did like some of it, but yeah, most of it wasn't good, too long and repetitive at times, fun to be had for sure, but not good. 666 Edit was my fav song and first listen of the album with Make It Minimal and Move Any Mountain being my other highlights

I honestly can't tell the difference between this and the other The Shamen record on the list. At least I think it was The Shamen. There's a lot of albums from this time from the UK House scene that sound very similar.

Listening session: march 9th, while commuting to internship and while studying Listened to before: no Thoughts: I can see how this would be great during the early 90s, but now most of it sounds outdated except for some bangers Favourite tracks: Move Any Mountian & Hyperreal Selector

Sounds like someone just learned the sample track feature on the keyboard

It’s cool they let ChatGPT albums on the list

Not my cup of tea

Meh instrumenta music, even for me.

One was good but that's about it

It’s a techno relic from the early 90s! It hasn’t aged very well but it does keep the head bobbing. 2.6/5.0

Why do I feel like the origin of this album was a 90’s youth pastor listening to the radio and wondering how he can connect with these kids today?

Fine background music, not one I see myself coming back to a ton

When I was a kid, I had a PS1 game called Music 2000. It had a bunch of extremely 90s rave/dance loops that you could layer on top of each other. I was about 8. This sounds like what I made on that game, with rubbish vocals over the top. Not my thing - has aged badly. Gets an extra point because I didn't totally hate Possible Worlds: Deep PSI.

I pray to the lord that we can maybe get some good electronic albums soon so I can rate them higher :3 it's my favourite genre after all, and this is just sub-par EDM.

Very dated and repetitive. Move any mountain made me feel a bit hopeful for the rest but unfortunately it was a let down.

Early EDM, not my jam. Too boring and repetitive

A pretty uninteresting 90s dance album. Didn't love it. Feels pretty dated today, but I bet it banged back in the day.

0/15 bekannt 5,5/10 Beste Songs: 666 edit, make it mine, move any mountain

This sounded exactly what I imagine standing in a rural field, off your tits on ecstasy, in 1990 sounded like. Which I’m sure was lovely. Just not something I would enjoy.

Move Any Mountain makes me think of Top Of The Pops. This came out when I was 10 years old and when TOTPs was becoming a weekly must see, and where it stayed until my late teens. The 1990s TOTPs had such a massive impact on my musical taste, introducing me to a lot of bands that stayed with me my whole life (Green Day playing Welcome To Paradise in 1994 changed everything). The Shamen I know solely through this opening track and Ebenezer Goode (sadly not on this album), so most of this is new to me. And my word it sounds "of it's time" - it's so astonishingly early 90s. Sort of slower than I expected, and not particularly exciting. None of the new tracks really stood out, though I did sort of like Evil Is Even. It's not for me. 2/5

First track is a banger and the rest is listenable but definitely not essential.

So dated, it's almost funny; I sure do prefer my hippies behind a guitar instead of a turntable. This one's going straight to the dreaded 'relic of its time where the novelty wears off halfway through the record' pile.

sigh. I didn't hate it as much as I expected to from the description. But I still did not like it. It's..... giving early 90s but not in a way I want to be a part of. I feel like I should be doing drugs in a seedy warehouse and piercing my nose with an earring back.

It is just electronica. I can not find something remarkable on.

Favorite track(s): Possible Worlds

Man, I usually don't truly distain something, but I really truly did not like this album. It was like the bad of all worlds. Bad fake drums. Cheesy spacey vocals. Stupid lyrics. What's good about it? I guess it was kind of creative. IDK. This came out early 90s, so it feels like New Wave + Electronic. George Michael meets The Prodigy? But you see, that's a great combo.

I don’t think this album has aged poorly, it just exists as a relic to a time for a small group of people. There is a time and a place for everything, just like how movie soundtracks are great, but don’t exactly make for the most compelling listen by themselves to most people. That’s how I feel about this album. I’m sure at a club in the 90s this album went hard. But in my car in 2026, it sounded overly long and very similar. There really isn’t much I remember from it other than the run time was far too long overall.

2.5 maybe? Liked it more than I expected but it's definitely of an era

"I can move move move any mountain" ♫. Scho met dem erschte stöck werd sehr schnell klar, us wellere Epoche dass das Albom stammt: us de 90er. Macht vorallem de ganz Sound klar. Dä bestohd nämlech fascht nome us ditigaler Musig: vel Synth ond sound effekt öppe ei, oder grad mehreri Sweeps henderenand. I can Move any Mountain esch debi eigentlech no relativ geil. Es tönt ufgstellt ond esch einigermasse abwächsligsriich met gezielte wächsel zwösche normalem Gsang, Rap ond mängisch au nome t Melodie. Dass Move any Mountain no guet tönt, hend The Shamen aber offbar au gmerkt. Wenni rechtig zellt ha chond das meh oder weniger drü mol vor i dem Albom. Als Progen 91 fascht identisch, eifach chli andersch zämegsetzt. Es chond aber au als Sample i 666 Edit vor. Dä Song esch ned nome e Schmelztiegel för verschenigischti Songs i dem albom (zo de verschedeheit chomi no), sondern au de ponkt wo sech t 90er fascht am stärchste, vorallem negativ, usprägt. Wemmer Musig rein elektronisch erzügt hed das zor Folg dass es relativ köntschlech tönt. alles öbermönschlech schnell ond regelmässig. Wemmer aber scho e könstlech tönende Song nemmt ond ne nomol öberarbeitet, chonds eifach komisch könstlech use. So stockt dä Song zom biispel chli im züg ome, WIE BITTE? Das zerstört de halt au de ganzi Flow i dem Groove enne rächt, wo söscht äbe no cool esch. Aber I guess das esch au gar ned so Wechtig wenns eifach es Rave albom esch. Das merkt mer au rächt im Ufbau vo de Songs ah. Es esch emmer i ganz klari Blöck strukturiert. Dete hed mer es paar täkt emmer genau s gliiche, osser velecht dass andere Text gsonge werde. Zom Rave secher sehr easy, wenn e Block aber länger tuuret de frogt mer sech scho ergendeinisch was das jetzt gnau esch, wommer do losst. Es werd halt eifach langwiilig, wemmer sech z fescht achtet. Was mer ehne aber mues loh: die verschednige Teil send rächt nahtlos verbonde ond send zäme öppis bessers, als sie einzeln wäred. Wels halt för so Blöck nome ändlech verschednigi Möglechkeite ged, die z mache, tönts de halt au ergendeinisch emmer e chli gliich. Make it Mine ond Move any Mountain stäched zwar e chli use wels no e igängigi Melodie esch ond ofne art so erfröschend werkt, söscht verschmelzt aber alles chli i einnere Masse. Das heisst, dass sech s Albom au rächt ziehd ond ech jetzt au froh be, met de allermeischte Songs abgschlosse z ha.

2/5