Reviews (page 5 of 7)
A compilation should not count as a proper album.
An edgy kind of nothing, like sipping sparkling water.
interminable digression
Too long. I like my electronic to be a little harder than this. But overall it’s not bad.
Meh
Eh oke?
After finally finding the correct album, this was fine.
There’s a lot of music, and after listening for hours I’m still not sure I heard the actual album that’s on the list. I tried Spotify, but apparently that’s wrong. YouTube maybe has the album, but with tracks deleted. No matter what. It’s way too much of the same.
Una larga sesión de jungle/drum and bass conducida por LTJ Bukem, pero que incluye temas de muchos artistas de su discográfica. Es un álbum muy representativo de la escena electrónica de los noventa: percusión rápida con melodías etéreas y muy cortas, que se van sucediendo durante dos horas. Música de trance urbano noventero. Un álbum que representa muy bien la atmósfera de su época, pero que a día de hoy suena bastante manido, más aún teniendo en cuenta lo largo que es. Aunque como música de fondo para programar es excelente, así que le doy una estrellita más.
Original 1996 release available on YouTube
It's like a three and a half hour Tom Cruse scene where he just takes off and is being chased by various things.
So monotonous, so boring. I really don't get the appeal.
I'm immensely grateful to the reviewer who pointed out that the Spotify link goes to the wrong, 3.5 hour long, album. So instead just had a couple hours of drum n bass through the day. Anyway. I remember when this was a thing. All the kids at uni who were really into it, and were running jungle club nights, were posh private school types. It was a big thing. I couldn't have given a f-. Listening now it's just like hearing a musical moment. You can see where it came from, what it led onto. Would be okay in a club, okay as background while you're getting something done. But on its own terms as an album? Sheesh.
3 hours too long album. 30 minutes would've been ok.
Its music you would hear in the background of Sephora, Zara or H&M. Its not bad, it just background music to me. There are some cool beats and they do mix coherently well. Its just nothing special to me. Its very spacy and somewhat aethereal but also all very similar.
I’ve come to love drum and bass, and electronica over the years. Being high sure helps to understand its complexity more. This might seem like a bunch of noise, but taking a drug (or better yet, achieving a deep meditative state) is like turning a dial on the radio. What you couldn’t hear or see before, now becomes crystal clear and it makes perfect sense. I imagine this music is how aliens communicate with each other.
Listening to this was a chore. The Spotify link is not at all correct according to the track list on Wiki, so I found most of the full album on YouTube, though four songs were missing, so I looked those individual tracks up on Spotify and listened to each when it was their turn in the lineup. (#4-One & Only, #6-Danny's Song, #16-So Long, #20-Mind Games). Having to do all that extra work tarnished the listening experience for me a tad. Plus it was REALLY long. All that fuss aside, I like this music...cool, chill and spacey. It's a vibe. Takes me back to days of yore. Drum and bass was never really my jam, my preferred EDM used to be more dancy and/or "housy." But I appreciate this style more now for the atmosphere it creates. Also, there are some beats in the first song that sound like Survivor (the show) music! So that's neat. Overall, the length and repetitiveness were a bit much though. I can only listen to this type of music for so long before I'm ready to move on, and I was ready to move on well before this album was. Link to YouTube album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENdq1xmtVWo&list=PLvatuzVxjPwF2wC2Fe7D4QjS-10AMSGg6
Приличный ликвид днб, атмосферик днб, или как это теперь классифицируют в 2025-ом. Почему-то очень сложно с версиями этой компиляции только. Лучшая песня - Demon's Theme.
1/5
Nothing justified making this record 3 and a half hours long.
Overall: 1/10 I feel this could only be enjoyable when you're under the influence of many illegal drugs. Fav Song: Not even gonna bother, man
Ambient longplayer with some techno elements. Typical 1990s.
Very repetitive but I love this shit
oh my god PLEASE stop with the repetitive electronica albums that go on for way too long
I cannot strees how important it is that you seek out the actual 1996 release - NOT the one that is on the streaming platforms. The original, the one that is in the 1001 list, captures the sound of jungle as it morphs into the drum and bass sounds that hit the mainstream. There's a rawness and creative energy to this era of music that was kind of sepcial. And incredibly worthy of the 5 stars I'm giving it. The version on the platfomrs is much cleaner, sanitised version of the sound. That is just a bit boring.
Mass Effect sounds over bass and drums. Hard pass for me, boss.
Very good.
The guy who put this in the book deserves a swirlie. No, I will not listen to 3 1/2 hours of beep boop music
Listen to this on a 2 channel system with no range - 2 Listen to this on a full home theater system with full range - 4. Such a contrast, this is an album that needs a good system to enjoy fully. A great listen in the right environment.
Good background music at work
Really liked this. I wasn't able to find or listen to the full double cd which probably worked in its favor a bit, but I wouldn't have minded a second hour.
acknowledging that i am not a d&b enthusiast or anything but this all sounds the same! it sounds nice though
this was dampened by having to listen to a random YouTube upload but I still really enjoyed it. 3.5
Bored
Cool
I've noticed the list is light on this kind of electronic compilation album, probably because there aren't many albums like this that have broken into the mainstream. This one is decent enough, although I think the vocal mix is stronger than the instrumentals in the version on Spotify. It looks like this isn't the original album, though, for reasons I don't understand. After listening to that version, it seems even better.
chill hyper pop beats to jork it too
Excellent drum n bass compilation. I’m never mad about listening to this kind of music. A lot of tracks have short, soulful vocal samples. It’s a great vibe, all perfectly produced. This was a tricky one to find. I didn’t see it on streaming but I found someone on youtube that posted both CDs worth of tracks, missing a few I think. I love that sample from Ferris Bueller on “Links” by Chameleon. I quote that line all the time!
Exactly the kind of music that I've been listening to lately and interested in making for the past few years. This was a really cool compilation record and I'm flying through the album. The one thing that I think could be improved with this genre is that I think there's an obvious expectation that people will be listening to this in some kind of edm club (not your typical rave, but a more chill sort of club I think?), and so there are really long sections where the music doesn't evolve enough aside from changes in the drum break patterns. Part of what makes this sound great is its meditative-like nature (I won't say trance because it's not quite that) so I don't mean for that to be removed, but I do find that this is a genre I enjoy more as a "lean-in" experience, where there are more defined structures and things borrowed from pop music as opposed to this repetitive "lean back" idea. Overall, this was really great. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Michael music
This music takes me on a journey…to the mall or, in more enjoyable moments, the nearest planetarium for a cool show. I’m not making fun because as a non-musician or composer this is far better than anything I could do myself. I’m just saying I don’t get or enjoy this style.
Because the waffle maker breaking and the difficulty finding the album is probably not LTJ’s fault, I am going to round up; however, the same repetitive beat and little else for nearly an hour and forty-five minutes certainly is. It’s difficult to call this monotonous drivel music. I prefer silence.
Wow. 2 hours of the same song. It's fine for background or dance music, but not so much for actually listening.
Too long and repetitive for what it is. I get it’s sort of a collection of beats and there is some good stuff but it doesn’t work as an album to listen to front to back
Don’t really understand why this is significant to be perfectly honest. 1.3
I wish I could give this repetitive bullshit less than one star. Supposedly a compilation of different artists....it sounded like one overly long and boring song.
Usch o fy, det här står jag inte ut med. Drum and bass eller triphop eller nåt. Blä
I’m trying with what I can find cuz this is an odd one on Spotify And honestly: don’t like it 1/5
Cool, fast, electronic beats/instrumentals. Good music to work to.
Yeah, this sort of music rarely does anything for me.
I like this kind of music, but I did listen to the Youtube version which might be different.
Jaime: 4 le gustan mucho los soniditos Nuria: 2,5: No le gustan los soniditos
Elevator music.
Was ready to give it a 3, skip though a few songs and then move on. Something hooked me and decided now on my send listen through its moved up to a 4. No doubt after may repeats it would (will) be a 5
Take notes Roni Size, take notes.
This was pretty cool and a good one for studying and a nice walk too. Liittle long with the 3 and a half hour runtime but who cares. Strong 3
interesting range - I much preferred the instrumentals, but the rushing percussion and dynamic arrangements were a refreshing listen
3.4 1x regular + 1x through extended 3h 27m. great background music and saved for future listening. catch up 3/24/2025
this album IS 3.5 hours long, but it’s 3.5 hours of drum and bass, which works for me. if you aren’t into drum and bass, this is probably torture.
3.5 stars. Drum & bass, jungle compilation record. Cool fast-paced electronic.
Some really good tunes on here. Minus points for it being a compilation, and probably being too sober. Time and a place and work is not it.
Cool vibe while working. The version linked here isn’t correct so I used a YouTube version and didn’t see track names. The verse at the end was fun due to its age
Pretty good for a cheap casio keyboard. Tolerable for 5 minutes but an entire album is a stretch.
Unlistenable
0 stars if I could — unlistenable
Like it, very good gateway for me quick and electronic music. Like the slight jungle, house and dnb tones.
Sure I guess
I don't think that this is the kind of album that I can enjoy properly whilst sitting at my desk working. I've had some fun nights out at drum n bass events, but you really need the whole surrounding to enjoy it. That said, even considering that, I don't think this album ticks the boxes for me. I assume it was important for the genre, but it didn't work for me.
Didn’t get it
Album number 436 and this is the first and hopefully last time that I say this, but I am not listening to this shit. For two reasons: 1. I'm busy today and don't have the time to listen to an album of such an ungodly length 2. It's a compilation so it was probably gonna get a 1 anyway
Pointless.
Über-classic and one of the goto mixes for Drum&Bass as it sounded in its mid-90s heyday. Bukem made the sounds of the clubscene accessible to a wide range of people who never set foot in any of the original clubs / never attended full-on d&b clubnights and helped elevate the genre (and the concept of dj mixes) to become dominant in the second half of the decade. Obviously it has by now lost most of its the-future-is-now shine but is still a solid set.
If I was younger and on drugs at a party, this would be more highly rated.
Yeah I get the point
Drum machine , synth, programmed repetition. I need some Molly. 'Music' is worth a re-listen, or background music while shopping in a hurry. 3*
Not a real album
ended up writing out a checklist of all the tracks from this album to mark off as I hunted down the individual songs across platforms, to make sure I heard everything. not worth the effort... just really uninteresting stuff. I've rated 180 albums so far and I really think this is probably in 180th place. it seems like the list generally avoids compilation albums and I don't understand why this got an exception to that rule; it's totally undeserving
Pretty good but no lyrics?
Not my thing
This was cool! Love a bit of Drum & Bass
Feel like Logical Progression is too good of a title for this record, to the point where it's kind of a detriment. The evolution of the record is so slow and drawn out that it just blends together and doesn't feel like you're hearing individual tracks so much as a two hour long song. And no album can sustain itself at that length IMO, even if all the tracks manage to differentiate themselves. It gets a 3 simply because what's there is solid outside of the 2 hour runtime, but I really, really didn't need 2 hours of very similar-ish music. EDM just escapes me everytime.
I don't often go out of my way for drum n' bass, but when it finds me, I'm hooked. Highly recommend as a starting point for newbies, and the vocal mix helps as well. Also, the Spotify link is not the correct album (Logical Progession Level 1). The actual compilation is completely different. Just go find a link on Youtube instead. Copyright issues, I assume.
I listened to the version of this album linked for Spotify, which may be the intended version? Not sure. It was enjoyable, although it is certainly repetitive (as drum and bass usually is) and sounded a tad dated. A solid listen, and perhaps very influential, but I’ve heard some better D&B examples since.
Mario kart music, avoiding a 1 because I didn’t actually listen to all of it and it didn’t necessarily sound bad, just found it boring
Absolutely no chance in hell I am listening to 3 hours. I am judging a book by its cover. No. It sounds like when you leave a DVD menu running and it keeps playing on a loop.
This is a genre I don't care for, is not on any streaming services, and is overly long, so it already had 3 strikes going against it before I even listened to it. You can find it on YouTube, though I guess it's not complete as some tracks are missing because of copyright issues as far as I understand, but it was still close to 100 minutes and I think I got the gist and the missing tracks probably don't matter. This has no business being on this list.
Tää levy menetti mut jo biisien nimillä ”universal music” ja ”music”, hyi… ne kun vielä kuulosti siltä kuin nimet antoi ymmärtää. En pidä tällaisesta futuristisesta. Huolestuttavaa on, että jazz-biisi oli paras, siinä oli hyvä idea.
Jos joku haluaa vetää niin paljon douppia, että tämä alkaa kuulostaa hyvältä tai edes kiinnostavalta, niin kai se täytyy hyväksyä. Leave me out of it.
I'm ngl, the type of flow I got into while journalling to this album was insane. DnB jungle beat pioneers.
Pure liquid
Decent background for a not so great video game.
Excellent lock in music
Good background music
IDK what the version on Spotify is, but wikipedia has a completely different tracklist, so I listened to a playlist on youtube that matched that tracklist. First off, if we are doing compilation albums now too, there is no reason why Hatful of Hollow couldn't be on this list (it's my second favorite Smiths album). Secondly, on some other review someone said something about how this list keeps trying to push UK electronic artist, but the French and German ones keep blowing them out of the water, and that couldn't be more true. It's not like this one is bad, it is just pretty boring. It was basically designed to be background noise. This album is also too long, and the 2nd half all sounds the same. Mid 2.
Space to dance in space.
Eh.
Never ending Backgroundmusic. 1,5
This is sound of being trapped in a hair salon in hell. Boring repetitive drum loops, boring keyboards. So aggravating. I love ambient, but this ain’t it.
Oikein maukasta ja tunnelmallista junglea. Tässä on niin sellainen 90 tunnelma. Annan kyllä 5 tähteä ihan siksi, että tää on mistä DnB on lähtenyt. Spotifyssä oli väärä levy, oikea löytyy youtubesta. Erillisistä kappaleista en osaa sanoa, kun en seurannut niin niitä. Mutta Peshayn Vocal Tunen laulu, oli kyllä jotain outoa paikkaa kutkuttavaa
All this early techno got me feeling wonky in the best way possible
I keep thinking, maybe this is the electronic album to help me understand the genre. I continue to be wrong. Maybe drugs is the missing piece
first listen very cool
Cool sounds. Just not for me.
Not for me thanks, and I had to go hunting for it…
If you would have played this album for me when I was ten years old and told me that this is what music would be like in the future I would have believed you. And you know what, you would have been right. However, as a citizen of the future, I can confidently say that we don't listen to this when we're cooking, or working out, or having futuristic sex orgys. We listen to this in the background of our video game load/ menu screens.
New to me. I'm not really in this mode anymore, reminds me of DJ Shadow. Don't hate it. Probably won't seek it out again
Nice ambient tracks but to loud for studying
I have a bit of a dilemma about this album: I listened to most of it on 2025y02m11d while playing a bit of the strategy game 'Heart of the Machine' - and this was pretty much the ideal listening scenario for this album, as the music fit exceptionally well with the 'vibes' (as kids today would say) of the game. Based on that, I'm inclined to give the album 4/5. However, I don't think I'll ever seek out this album again. I don't think it has made much of an impression on me. How can I rate such an album more than 3/5 stars? I feel I give far too many albums from the '1001 Albums' book 3/5 stars. The album is also 3 hours and 27 minutes long, which isn't bad per se, but given that many albums on this list (in the book) are 30-60 minutes long, and this album doesn't strike me as exceptional in any way, it seems a bit pretentious to break the norms surrounding album length to such an extreme extent. In fact, the final two songs on this album are each over an hour in length - having a song that's as long as two other albums on this list seems a bit obnoxious. As I write this, I have 41 minutes left in the final song on the album, and I still need to get cleaned up for my plans with Liam today. I don't know how I could do that and still finish the album today, even though I started listening almost 3 hours ago. That speaks to how extreme the length is. Edit, written the next morning: I want to add that in some ways I think having two songs that are each over an hour long is actually a bit obnoxious. Since I doubt I'll ever seek this music out again, I'm tempted to rate it 2 stars. However, since it was pretty good, I'm tempted to rate it 3, and since it fit exceptionally well with the context in which I listened to it, I'm tempted to rate it 4. I think the true rating would be about 3.3. I'll give it a 3.
I don’t understand why a compilation is on this list. It really doesn’t make any sense to me. Regardless of that, this is just boring late 90’s/early 2000’s drum and bass, and I don’t care for it at all. It’s technically sound, and the production on every track is fine, but I really struggle to care about this album enough to write about it. DnB has always been a snooze fest to me, even when it was new and novel. 2* I guess?
Long electronic albums are risky territory, but luckily this is exactly the type of trancey jungle stuff that I love to put on while I lock in on writing or doing tedious/repetitive tasks. I enjoyed this and would play it again. Actually im not really sure if i listened to the right version, because the one on Apple Music has a totally different track list than the Wikipedia article. Whatever it was, i was vibing and “Jazz Licks” was easily my favorite track.
- I am horribly uninformed on electronic dance music...but I can barely tell any of these tracks apart. - I feel like I have absolutely no opinion on any of this. But it lasts for over two hours.
can't accept drum n bass we need jungle I'm afraid
3 maybe 4
I didn't hate this to be honest, but I was extremely glad to discover that the final two hours were just the same album again without breaks. It was a more pleasant intro to D&B and jungle than the dreadful Tricky album from earlier in the proj. I don't think I'll ever listen to it again, nor do I want to, but it is a comfortable 2.
Nice...
I did not listen to the two “continuous mix” 1+ hour tracks, but I did listen to the other tracks. I’m not big into drum and bass, and I was worried, but it wasn’t unpleasant. I enjoyed it at times. I don’t know who puts this on for three hours unless it’s background, but the hour of tracks was good.
Not bad, just not for me.
Boring and stupid. At best it's OK background music. At best. 1/10
This started off pretty good. I had it on headphones while getting in a cardio session at the gym - let me zone out and the BPM was decent for running. Made it about half way through the album before it started to get repetitive. Then grating. Gonna say 3/5 for this one.
Who knew drums would be this exciting
Ridiculously long droning band camp practice. No more. Wasted my time.
While it's not a bad album, I'd dare to say it isn't his best work (of what is featured in this compilation). I might get more ideas for my own productions rather than an exceptional listening experience from this.
I had to find this one on YouTube and some of the songs were muted so I didn’t get the full experience. I did like it more than I expected as some it would make decent ambient music and honestly some good headphones, lying in the dark on my bed with this album would probably be pretty solid. Still though, seeing as the album is over 2 hours long this only boosts it from 1 star to 2.
sure
Over 2 hours long. Just no
Acústicamente llamativa e interesante
Formulaic.
No thanks. Not my kind.
From the book: "What about Saturday Night Fever?'; you may ask. Well, you won't find compilations or soundtracks by "various artists" in this book, although we have made room for soundtracks that consist entirely of original material composed by a particular artist. Otherwise, we would not have been able to tell you about Superfly,Shaft, or Purple Rain-three milestones in pop and some of the best work by Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, and Prince respectively." I guess compilations are allowable when you want them to be. This is a weird album to break the rule with, surely there has to be a 14 hour BritPop collection from the 90s? No, why have a compilation for that when you can just have all 80 bajillion albums. 1/5
Very cool but didn't need the continuous mixes.
This is not for me
Three hours (Spotify) is openly hostile as an album length, but it's good work background music.
so 90s, so chill! great music to listen to while working
Most songs sound the same to me, but at least I was able to get work done while listening.
Okay as background music.
I got 30mins in before I couldn't take it anymore. It's too repetitive, not interesting enough and too chill for me. Most good music communicates an emotion or a feeling or a story, but I'm getting absolutely nothing from this.
Love it a lot, much more than the previous dnb record, but obviously it’s over two hours long and im a 21st century boy so my attention span is not long enough to listen to 2 hours of music for the first time and and internalize everything that happens enough to give it an adequate rating after. I really love track 3 and I love that it’s called “Music” what a great name for a song
Pleasant enough to have on in the background while working/driving/doing tasks. Album length is definitely on the longer side, though it does generally keep you entranced throughout. Can see the appeal of this, and is not too dissimilar to the likes of Aphex/Squarepusher at the time. Overall like this, but sticking to a 3 as I can't have this over a whole variety of albums. Best/Worst Tracks: Decided to listen through this album without picking out favourite bits/songs, so N/A. Rating: 3/10
Yea I’m not listening to 3 hours of that. I gave em 17 minutes of my time and that was more than they deserved.
Listened Before? N I had a friend in high school who was into stuff like this. I'm really not one for extended tracks of wordless beats, so this isn't really my cup of tea. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Senses (Because its short)
this was some good background music. worth a listen although tw days later nothing sticks with me..
1996, bass and drums and soothing senthersiser sounds.This whole albums feels like a chill out evening, or just background during a focus session. The blend of rhythmic groove with atmospheric textures feels timeless. It's a Logical Progression from dancing to chilling.
I'm on paternity leave and have a headache. I don't have time for this.
A great drum and bass compilation album. rolls along nicely and a good example of that genre probably at its peak in the 90’s. Personally would have preferred the odd track thrown in with some lyrics to break it up a bit but a good listen.
THE SPOTIFY LINK IS BROKEN, THIS IS THE ACTUAL ALBUM (minus 4 songs due to copyright): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7sIUXSrVoU Sounds sounding so sweltering Beats bringing back beltering I am a fan of drum and bass This, the beginning of the race Twice I listened to this in entirely And enjoyed it tirelessly
I really don't get the appeal of this...
Sounds like perfect background music for a hip coffee bar circa 1994.
To be listened to with a group of sweating, gurning ravers in Ibiza
This was cool, but I wanted even more frantic and frenetic
Not for me.
a previous (very disturbed) reviewer claimed What an outrageous record, that drips its gooey semen into your ears and sits back and watches as you struggle to shake it out. this record is fucking awful, more akin to a disappointing wank in a sock than spunk in the ear
Only on YouTube
I didn’t have to listen to this one. Just drums and bass. It got tedious real quick.
Not for me
Far out
actually good
Deep gratitude to the reviewer, who posted the YouTube link to the original record. It took me ~3-4 tracks to realize that I actually bought this CD set, while passing through London, back in ‘97. I like it better now. This was an interesting chapter in the evolution of club music. This was the bridge between the famous DJs in big clubs and kids spinning records in their basements. Techno went from a highly social experience to something much more introverted.
I’m sorry I’m not doing this x
This has made me realise if music doesn’t have lyrics I need the instruments to be emotive
Instrumental, high tempo, drum and bass. Long songs, super repetitive. I'm sure it was new and exciting at the time, but it just goes on and on and on. Good background music I suppose, for like a snowmobile racing video game or something
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
i was unable to track down this full album in proper, but liked what i heard. this is the audio equivalent to a y2k-era screensaver, in a great way. really easy to see myself getting lost in this and playing video games at 2am like a degenerate
Listening to this the week before Christmas makes me feel like the grinch because both of us hate NOISE
77 minuten boem boem tsjik boem boem tsjik... wie heeft in godsnaam dit album op de lijst gekregen... geef die man een job in de politiek, want die krijgt het zelfs voor elkaar dat Trump sociale zekerheid installeert!
I'm here 5 days from Christmas, freezing my tits off on the ride into work, listening to whale and bird song d&b. Thank you Lil Tim Jimkins, for this gift. This is my life now and I accept. Local Total Jellical Bukem you have a new worshipper to the shrine of bum tss
Better than Daft Punk
Didn’t do a lot for me.
Decent jazz fusion from the late 90’s.
well this has not aged well might have blown my mind in 1996 but alas it's 2024 best song: reflections worst song: universal music
Seriously? I'm in my last 5 days and I get two hours of looped bloops?
I don't mind a bit of drum and bass, but this got a bit tiring after a while.
Couldn’t find a full version of this album. I liked what I heard, wish I could skip rating this one until I could pull up the full version.
Loved listening to the amen break for 2 hours on loop. This was a great experience. Make sure you listen to the Youtube reupload, because the Spotify link has the wrong version (the one that begins with "Destiny"). You don't want to miss this. One album remains.
Not the best eighties album. Made me put sports by Huey Lewis on.
This was not for me
It's not my thing. It's pretty much just noise to me.
Not bad as background music but got a bit boring after a while.
Decent enough to listen to while doing something else to pass the time. Background music at best with no real standouts.
Decent music for work.
If three hours and 27 minutes is considered to be the compilation/summary, I can’t image how long the original tracks must have been. Seems like a nice 45-minute compilation would better suit more normal human attention spans.
Was halfway through listening to the album when I found out I was listening to the wrong album. Pretty cool drum n bass album though but definitely dated.
Very confused because the track listing on spotify is much different than what is listed on wikipedia. But whatever I listened to was pretty cool and jazzy drum and bass music.
IF YOU'RE READING THIS - THE REAL ALBUM IS HERE, NOT ON SPOTIFY: CD1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZK_0dgj43s CD2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYqDVqYSTxs Some songs have been removed from both due to copyright, but it's over an hour and a half long anyways so who cares. I finally got around to tracking down the ORIGINAL Logical Progression album, as the one on Spotify isn't even close to being the original. I listened to the Spotify version first, and I don't think a single song on there lines up, which obviously is going to skew the reviews on this site unfortunately. It's a real shame, because this is a really great album. It's hard to believe this came out in 1996, when breakbeat/jungle/DnB was really just an infant of a genre. This feels like it could have easily been mixed in the early 2000's and I'd have no idea. Issues with this album are few. I can definitely see why this is not everyone's flavour, especially since 95% of the slop on the 1001 Albums book is all English or American rock from the 70's-90's. However, if you're into electronic music, I'd bet that it would be easy to fall in love with this album. There is a few jumps and hiccups in the mix, but I'm going to put that down to a bad CD burn rather than issues with the album. There was definitely a few moments that I found repetitive, and it's not an extremely engaging album that you'd sit down and listen to intensely, but Liquid DnB has never been about that. This is album #93 for me, and it's pretty clear to me that this is by far the most underrated album on this list (so far). It's not perfect, but it certainly blew me away. In the context of the time, this deserves a 5, because it's utterly amazing how polished this is for such an old record using dated equipment. However, I'm rating this off personal taste, and because CD2 was a lot more of a slog, I think this is a well deserved 4.
Logical Progression - LTJ Bukem (1996) If I listened to both mixes of this thing and somehow still missed something I'm gonna be fucking pissed That said, a very nice little DnB album. I love this simpler and more laid back style from this time period. reminds me of a lot of soundtracks from the PS1 era of gaming. Hard to really rate each song individually since I just had the full mix on with Spotify, though I will say I preferred the vocals version over the instrumental.
Really, really strange pick to include in this list - this is basically a dnb mix masquerading as a compilation album. I might not be too well versed in the history of the dnb scene but the featured artists on this album, as well as the compiler of the mix are literally who’s to me. Looking into it I feel this was only included due to the relative lack of LPs released in a genre that focuses more on beats and tracks for use in mixing over standard songs, added to the fact that this was a commercially successful breakthrough that reviewed well with critics for some reason? Overall I might be spoiled by the 20+ years of evolution in the genre I have been exposed to following the release of this album but in all it’s just underwhelming. Fairly standard and competently produced jungle that doesn’t hold up compared to contemporary fare.
7/10
Cisco hold music but the guy who did it was on pingers.
3.5
Jungle, drum and bass. Música electrónica instrumental. Está bien para trabajar. Un 4.
Jungle, drum and bass, música del espacio.
Fine DnB not super interesting stuff but nothing was bad.
Late 90's D&B, I'm no fan of D&B. This wasn't bad in the beginning, but it fell victim to the classic D&B issue. They fall too heavy on the drum portion, the songs were very one tone by the end of the album.
Jungled K&D.
I love DnB and this was overall enjoyable, but I don't think it fits into this exercise. It's too niche and too repetitive.
If I were rating based solely on the first 10 tracks it would be a 4/5 easy. But as the album has 2 more tracks that are each slightly more than an hour in length I can’t do that. This sadly will be an album I will likely never have the time to sit and listen to in its entirety and because of that I do have to dock some points.
Interesting background music- feels video gamey. Ultimately, nothing really stood out
Rundgren's "Liars" LP and Bowie's "Earthling" use similar beats and effects, but are much more accessible. The repetition in this album is annoying to me.
Did not expect to find a drum and bass album here. Was okay.
# Album Name: Logical Progression # Artist: LTJ Bukem # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Honestly, i thought this was junk. The two CDs on YT are 1hr 45 mins. Its absolutely dog shit imo. Not my thing at all. Got to be on drugs to like this. # Top Tunes: F All # Would I listen to it again? F no
Background music for a 90’s retro internet cafe.
i really freak w this
Pre-listening thoughts: why is the one on streaming the wrong album????? Had to find this on YouTube. Also another compilation album. Idk how I feel about this Post/during listening thoughts: Christ almighty someone chop my ears off and throw them in the meat grinder. I can’t do drums and bass and nothing else. This is my purgatory. 1.5/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: oh hell no Fav tracks: ?! Least fav tracks: yeah
1.5
Cool background slow paced dnb
Cool lofi
Not even sure I listened to this right, the tracklist on Spotify doesn't look the same as the Wiki page indicates. Anyway, I played it while I was working and it's fine in the background. Wasn't really paying attention. Probably 2*
My younger brother loved drum and bass and i do not. The only time it makes sense is in a dark sweaty club with some chemical enhancement
1/5
Unlistenable
I’m don’t listening to electronic on this list.
Normally I hate overly long albums (and I'm glad I found the review stating that the wrong album is linked, because that one is over 3 hours long), but this flew by. I love jungle music so much.
Demon's Theme 2.5 Links 1.5 Music 1 One & Only 0.8 Bringing Me Down 0.5 Danny's Song 0.6 Vocal Tune 0.3 Coolin' Out 0.4 Western (Remix) 0.4 Horizons 0.3 Airtight (Remix) 0.4 New Element 0.4 Drums in a Grip 0.3 Solutions n/a In Too Deep 0.4 So Long 0.4 Pharaoh n/a Miles High n/a Groove Therapy 0.5 Mind Games 0.4 Score: 0.652941176
I enjoyed this sonically, it reminded me of N64 videogame music. As a complete record though this dragged on way too long.
Un album conceptuel dont les paramètres m’échappent; répétitif et facilement oubliable, car je ne sais pas par où y entrer
Honestly makes for great thinking music and music to work to. A little more hyperactive than the jazz or piano music I usually work to and maybe made it harder to focus, but that isn’t to say that the music is bad. Very, very good hyper instrumentals. It’s kind of like the fight music you’d hear in Marvel vs. Capcom or your average beat em up. Plus, the longer it goes, it becomes oddly soothing. I would say it’s a little too long at three hours but that’s perfect when you’re using it to think/work.
If this list has taught me anything, it's that if an album from my teenage years shows up that I've never heard of, it's most likely British, and I most likely won't enjoy it. This was no exception. I got halfway through each song before skipping onto the next. Well I did for the first 10 tracks anyway. I saw the last 2 tracks were over an hour long each and just gave up entirely.
Hoy toca doble: artista desconocido y género sólo ubicado por su nombre. Me gusta como música de fondo, para leer o estudiar. Sin mucho más para agregar, me despido hasta mañana.
Technically a DJ Mix than an album. While a few of these songs are by LTJ Bukem and they're all curated by him, Logical Progression features a healthy mix of DnB producers from his label Good Looking Records. On the surface, this seems like a standard DnB mix with some jungle influence, but you'd be missing the bigger picture. Indeed, LTJ Bukem was a key figure in cultivating the atmospheric drum & bass genre, bringing it to prominence in the late '90s. This sound would become a popular at the turn of the millennium, as the sleek and chilled out vibes of Logical Progression felt well-suited for Y2K. I'll concede that this mix is a long and somewhat arduous listen if you're not already keen on the style of music, but I found this to be a mellow listen all the way through. It helps to follow the tracklist as if it were the original two-disc release, taking a break after the song Horizons and coming back later for the other 10 tracks. To this extent, Logical Progression is a smooth and enjoyable foray into the best of atmospheric DnB.
I have no ill will towards drum and bass as a genre. Does this deserve space on a list of "albums you must hear before you die"? No. This would be a three star if it was just something someone told me to check out, but since this list is telling me it's a "must hear" I gotta knock it down to two.
Rating: 5/10 Meh.
Didn’t listen to all of it but I’d probably revisit this for concentration music
Love this sort of shit, LTJ Bukem is a pioneer
cara q negócio ruim mlk, puta merda. envelheceu como leite fora da geladeira. muito massante
3 stars from me, 5 stars from my dog
Ugh I am not in the mood for 3.5 hours of electronica, but here we go I guess. Interesting that this is a mix of artists and not just one artist, the sound is very consistent and flows well between songs even though it's a mix. It's alright, but nothing particularly special.
Had to go to YouTube…and for good reason. This was a chore in every definition of the word.
1-2
weird elevator music
Even in the days I was into drum and bass, I would not have liked this
Not great. Thought it was listening to the same song the whole time. They love using the same drum beat too. Techno nightmare.
It's alright. Really just highlights how far EDM has come since the 90s. I guess the rapid improvement of technology into the 2000s must have a lot to do with that. Another one with tracks missing on Spotify.
Just gave me an empty feeling. A ton of nothing. Elevator music.
3+ hours of 90s jungle/drum & bass/whatever electronic microgenre bleeps and boops that's great for two ends of the spectrum of human activity: either getting off your gourd on E in some overpriced and uncomfortable room inexplicably called a 'lounge' or sitting down to hammer out some work on the ol' laptop. I've listened to this lots in the past for the latter purpose and always liked it but don't have the time today. The signature sound is the contrast between the fast drum machine beats and the chilled out synth bedding that gives it an extremely alientating pseudo-relaxing but actually high-energy feel to it, like it's designed to produce that uneasy uncertain anxiety you get in a busy mid december Zara and challenge you to sublimate that ambient stress into productivity by using it to block out everythign else and then forgetting it's on as a means of focusing. It works, but horrid stuff when you think about it. This isn't an album, it's a sampler or more like a box set, albums are not this long. What's the rationale for the like 3 compilations that appear on here?
Not for me!
Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. Thou shall not make repetitive generic music. This is ACTUALLY three and a half HOURS of the same beat with no variation in speed or intensity. This may be the worst record on the list. Maybe of all time.
fits its genre
Very nice chillin' easy listening - say if you need to concentrate on work etc Not really the sort of stuff for a 1001 greatest of all time album chart. Plus this appears to be a compilation?
Totally inoffensive but not sorting to get excited about. I can understand how it might be just the thing for people who focus with music playing but don't want the music to actually pull their attention.
9/10
3:27 mins of science fiction electronic jazz? Thanks but not for me
Very long album but worth the listen - 4 stars
2 and a half hour long electronica album. Enough said.
Nice, just jungle beats
Far too long and far too repetitive. Weirdly enough, my gal pop loving husband enjoyed this 1 probably because he only listened to 5 minutes of it every half hour, rather than the full beast.
No thanks. Not interested, 1 star or F for me.
At first I though "meh, another ambient electronic music album". But then the energy hit me, and I realised I was working non-stop for an hour, while shimmying in headphones by my desk. Good stuff.
Listening to the first half of this double LP felt more than sufficient, but I did like what I heard. Some creative use of sampling here.
Day 57 - Oct 24, 2024 Mario Kart music, but I like it (i think i am autistic) 4/5
This was easy background listening. Reminded me of the sweaty jungle room in those parties at the students union.
There’s a certain thing about this album. It’s a two hour long compilation album with twenty songs. It’s not an easy listen for sure, haha. The songs included are nice, they really are. It’s just that since this album is so long, and considering the song lengths, the songs can start to feel the same as it goes on. I feel that these songs would work more as individual songs. These worked really well as background music during work though. I liked most of the songs here, I just don’t think I’d sit through two hours of this again. It gets a bit tiring. I still love the vibes this brings though, this is a straight vibe. If you like electronic stuff, and don’t mind something this long, i’d recommend this. While some tracks may be better than others, there’s defiantly good electronic stuff to be found here.
What a terrible bore.
A 2 hours and 19 minutes drum and bass album.
I now have the certainty that this list is an elaborate joke.
It was like listening to 2 hours of total void. It's ambiant music for your favorite expensive clothing store, but how could someone listen to this at home and live something great? Imagine writing the list of the 1001 albums you have to listen to in your life and adding this kind of stuff. Or I obviously missed the whole point?
Perus electronica on 3 star... Objektia .00 haluaa näin.. jaha..
vibes
It was terrible. Each an every song sounded exactly the same.
Strange to have a compilation album like this, but I already rock with music like this. Not even sure I listened to the right album tbh
Musica electrónica. Difícil de catalogar como mejor que otras
Extremely repetitive electronic house music.
Danny's Song was my favourite. Long album, but good background music.
Logical Progression: 1) press play 2) roll eyes 3) press stop
Cool ambient oriented electronic music, without being too formless or too dance oriented.
Some decent mixes and solid background music but not great for an active listen. The feature length film at the end didn’t do much for me either (2.5/5)
Whatever this compilation on Spotify is (starting with a boring track called Destiny), it seems to be a bunch of other completely random tracks that are not this album. Went and found a playlist starting with Demon's Theme which was better. Since Horizons is apparently a key track and is not on streaming anywhere it's probably best to seek this out on YouTube. Ah here we go. https://youtu.be/m7sIUXSrVoU?si=QkqV40fnV1B6tmg2 (Some PFM tracks are muted presumably due to copyright claim but this is the best I could find) Strangely One and Only is available on Spotify. I cast it to my TV while I read Harley Quinn comics. Definitely would have sounded better on my speakers but what are you going to do when Spotify throws a curve ball? Really enjoyed the build on Music. Less fond of Peshay vocal tune but that was still alright. To be honest this is all pretty good. Some of it really good. I wish it wasn't such a faff to play. I'll be looking for similar quality stuff now I've reconnected with this kind of shit. Definitely excellent to work to, especially coding. Might see if I can seek out a download I can easily stream to my speakers. Far too long to be faffing with vinyl. Went straight to the Producer series after it finished.
A bit too dreamy for me but ok background music.
Not my thing at all
FYI: the spotify-link to this album is wrong. The real version is 2.5 hours long and has completely different songs. Difficult album to rate, the trouble finding the right version didn't help. I'm not that big of a Drum n Bass fan and 143 minutes is way too long as an album. I enjoyed the first hour or so but 20+ long tracks gets boring after a while. I still enjoyed the individual songs on here and I do think it's deserving of a place on this list as representation for a pretty big genre, but I don't think I will ever listen to this as an album again.
Back to my clubbing days
"Oh look, the Ozric Tentacles are making Techno now! Do you want to listen?" "Err..., thanks, pass."
Didn't finish, not planning to. Not my cup of tea
uhhm I thought we weren't supposed to have compilation albums on this? 3 1/2 hours? WHAT IS HAPPENING! Well, you actually have to listen to the stuff. Enjoyed this as background sounds while doing other things, though the repetitive nature of Drum'n'Bass can be grating. Light and refreshing. Kinda cool.
I could have spent 2 hours scrolling through my phone's ringtones and had the same experience as listening to this. Absolute shit.
I honestly really enjoyed it. I definitely would play it at 90s Internet café in the south of market area would listen to again.
“Shoulder shrug”
12 songs/3+ hours = no thanks. No patience. What I could listen to was fine, its not terrible. lots of fast forwarding thru songs....well, the whole album really.
Nem lenne ezzel baj, ha nem lenne olyan lélektelen és halálosan unalmas. Létezik jó elektronikus zene! Csak ez se az.
neeeeemmmmbírom ezt ilyen mennyiségben, neeeemmn
Who doesn't like break? (Apparently a lot of people)
I really like electronica as a genre, and my goodness I am glad we have moved past the 90s sensibilities of what can be done with synthesizers and loops. That rapid snare beat (doo dah, dah doo dah) is rampant during this time period. Songs with it feels like interesting pieces of the fossil record, but I'd rather listen to what the genre has evolved into. Glad this album recruited a variety of artists, but a lot of work would be needed to keep me paying attention for its 140 minute runtime.
Not a fan of this at all. Its safe to say I dont not enjoy drum and bass
Does honestly not offer enough to justify the slow emptiness
Sounds like a background music from some 90s multi-player pc game.
This is #day54 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and.... my annoyance started when I hit the Spotify button. Tracklists on Wiki and Spotify differ. I looked for an album on YT (as I mentioned earlier, I listen to all the entries on the list, no matter the music), and it's the same. I got back to Spotify and listened to what was there ("instrumental mixes"), except for the last two 1-hour-long tracks. I don't think I'd miss anything had I listened to the "proper" tracklist, though. A bad UX is enough to get me down. But, there's also music... When drum and bass was big here in Ukraine (early '00s), it passed me by... I was a trance/hard trance/hands-up kid then. Now, a drum and bass compilation to listen to before you die? My answer is a 1 out of 5. Again. Looking forward to #day55.
Ihan passelia taustamusiikkia.
Dislike. It’s not about the album, just the genre
Lekker album, divers genoeg om interessant te blijven, en gewoon echt goed in z'n genre.
No
If someone said to you that you had to hear this album before you die, you would fully expect them to kill you. Pretty bad album. Repetitive drum and bass loops and not much else. 1/5
Ihan kuin oisin ollu sienestämässä
pov oot klubilla ja haluut kotiin
Not available on Tidal.
Trippy
2 long 2 samey
Not bad but just a bit repetitive, I as worried when I seen this was 3 hours long on Spotify, thankfully the last 2 songs were just the album on a continuous mix. Can’t say id recommend this album.
Great stuff. I wasn't expecting to be reminded of Hiroshi Yoshimura's album 'Green' when I got this DnB generation, but it was a pleasant surprise. Very energetic while remaining soft and melodic, I'll most likely be listening to this one again.
There's a lot of sameness to this album. Like the background track to a 1980s console video game. It's more than 1 star because I don't actively hate it, but that's the best I can say for it.
Perfectly acceptable background music for me. I just don't really care about any of it.
A way too long compilation album of different artists doesnt deserve to be on this list. The other shit Drum n Bass album is enough
bleep bloop. some decent drum n bass/techno stuff. As an album experience it is only okay but a couple stand out singles.