Logical Progression

A lot of reviews mentioned that Spotify doesn’t have the correct tracks for this album, so I went to YouTube and I think I found it(?). If so, it seems like an enjoyable set but difficult for me to get into through all the YouTube ads.

Most songs start out/have a kind of chill feel but then break into a maniacal beat that creates an eclectic lack of cohesion/ continuity within each [long] song. Overall, maybe good background music if you’re in the right mindset.

ganz nice zum arbeiten, aber jetz eig nix besonderes. 2.5.

What's with this genre dropping 2-3 hour albums?

Oh God. I wanted to like this so badly, but I was just so fucking bored. I'm so sorry.

One time listen, I see the genius but it’s not my scene It would be a great road trip or study lp

It's fine as background music, but there wasn't anything in here that I actively liked. It didn't feel distinctive to me in any way. As an example, the autoplay kept going after disc 1 ended, and I didn't realize for a while. More pleasant than many electronic albums, though!

I’m going against my own guideline of listening through an entire album before rating—and if I can’t finish, it’s an automatic 1. This one isnt streaming, so it’s a YouTube hunt to find both of the double albums. I listened to disc 2. This is a pretty good example of jungle (d’n’b), which sounded like fresh and exciting sounds coming out of the British electronic scene in the mid-90s. Like other electronic records, it’s not meant for a sit down experience. I can give it a high 2.

Too repetitive for me. I liked certain songs, but overall, I miss melodies.

Nothing was inevitable about drum and bass, least of all its misnomer of a genre name: there’s a pervasive synth tone throughout a lot of this, not a whole lot of bass. Plenty of drums though, so many sped-up amen breaks. I wish I liked LTJ’s curation and his own treatments more, but there was always something a bit dull to this *outside of clubs*. At the clubs in the mid-late 90s, dnb was a trip and I miss that.

Not my jam

So hard to find the version that matches the album detailed on the list. But I persisted and found most of the album on YouTube. Some songs removed for copyright reason. Why some, and not all? No idea. Thank God it was shortened. I can actually appreciate the art of it. But, it’s too repetitive for me to stay engaged in for long.

When i saw this appear, my first thoughts were this will be a painful hour. It turns out that it was not irritating at all. It is ok for background music, but there is no way would I choose to listen to this for my main form of entertainment. I'll leave that for the people who take substances to make it worthwhile listening to.

2.5

Did not make it through. Had just the remixes but not my cup of tea. D&B.

First things first, this album is soooooooo long. I've seen shorter Ridley Scott Director's Cuts. And it's not that interesting. I don't hate any of it, but it's just crushingly long. This is a terrible album with quite a bit of good music in it. This is not a good format.

This is not music for sitting around and listening — it’s a very particular kind of (trance-y, rave-y) dance music. I’m not opposed to dance music, but, as an album, this super repetitive. Also, I wonder if music that’s supposed to move your body and help you reach a higher state can be produced without any physical instrumentation or live players? This is all concocted in someone’s brain, and then manifested in a computer/laboratory. As a result, it’s pretty sterile. I’m told it’s an influential album/band — a great example of drum and bass. I’ll give it a 2, but I’m not going to listen to it again unless I’m at a ravey scene.

pass

Lame generic drum beat 2/5

FYI: The wrong album is shared in Apple Music. Cover art is similar but completely right, but the tracks are ALL wrong and the run time is an hour longer than the 140 min album that's recommended in the book. The YouTube link is correct for the 1996 release. I don't have Spotify, so I can't confirm accuracy there. So, after getting past that mess (and only 30 minutes into my listen), this album feels like filler to reach the coveted 1001. Art - in its most simplistic definition and design - is supposed to evoke some type of emotional response, whether it's a painting, a photograph, a sculpture, a film, or a piece of music. This album does none of that. I'm not saying that this is good, nor am I saying it's a bad electronica album. I'm just saying that this album feels terribly unnecessary, especially at its run time.

Yeah as the albums go on I see point behind the electronica hate more and more

I listened to the copy on soundcloud rather than Apple Music as suggested on reddit Did I enjoy it? Yes, it got me pumped for the upcoming dance music festival I am attending next weekend Will I listen again? Probably not as it is not easily accessible and very long!

Early 90s low-budget soundtrack for a montage scene where some wiz kid is hackin’ the ‘net Faded to the background so fast, - didn’t really mind it, but couldn’t focus in enough to have more of an opinion or a desire to come back to it.

I guess something like this should be on the list, but less for what it is as an album and more an example of this style of music. Painfully long but this type of stuff is meant to be zoned out to. Probably skillfully done for what it is. I took one second and adjusted the playback speed to see if it made a difference. 2x was insane, 1.5 was missing a ton of nuance, 1x was the best sounding, and 0.5x was brutal. So at least it isn't purely random

A drum and bass compilation seems an odd choice for this mix. It was pleasant enough to have on the background, but not something that grabbed my attention or that I would reach for again.

2. could not finish the album though.

There's just not much here really

An edgy kind of nothing, like sipping sparkling water.

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.

So monotonous, so boring. I really don't get the appeal.

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.

Mass Effect sounds over bass and drums. Hard pass for me, boss.

acknowledging that i am not a d&b enthusiast or anything but this all sounds the same! it sounds nice though

Bored

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

Cool, fast, electronic beats/instrumentals. Good music to work to.

Pretty good for a cheap casio keyboard. Tolerable for 5 minutes but an entire album is a stretch.

Didn’t get it

If I was younger and on drugs at a party, this would be more highly rated.

Yeah I get the point

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

Decent background for a not so great video game.

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.

Never ending Backgroundmusic. 1,5

Not for me thanks, and I had to go hunting for it…

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

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?

- 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.

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.

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

Formulaic.

No thanks. Not my kind.

Most songs sound the same to me, but at least I was able to get work done while listening.

Okay as background music.

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

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)

I'm on paternity leave and have a headache. I don't have time for 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

Not for me.

Only on YouTube

I didn’t have to listen to this one. Just drums and bass. It got tedious real quick.

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

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

Not the best eighties album. Made me put sports by Huey Lewis on.

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.

Cisco hold music but the guy who did it was on pingers.

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.

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.

1.5

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

It was terrible. Each an every song sounded exactly the same.

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)

"Oh look, the Ozric Tentacles are making Techno now! Do you want to listen?" "Err..., thanks, pass."

“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

Does honestly not offer enough to justify the slow emptiness

Sounds like a background music from some 90s multi-player pc game.

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.

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.

bleep bloop. some decent drum n bass/techno stuff. As an album experience it is only okay but a couple stand out singles.

This sounds more like the album you hear while you're dying.

It has a certain mood which is fine, and I understand how important this album was back in the mid-1990s when drum and bass developed in the UK. But it's very monotonous, samey, and too fast-paced, and it goes on for more than 2 hours. It's just too much. Also, it's a compilation album, and even if it sounds coherent, it's still not an album by one single artist/band just like any other album on this list. Overall it was not for me.

Way too much drum n bass for me to enjoy and not enough purported space voyage. This is pretty dated and not doing much for me today.

So much dedication on this stupid list to drum & bass: the hindmost of electronic music. I’d call it uk bias, but even the uk has better types of electronica

Look, it's ok, just not my cup of tea, though it got a positive reaction from my wife along with questions about why the hell I was playing this album. I'm sure it's good, but I would not miss it if I never heard it again. It's the next day and I can't remember what it sounded like. Two repetitive stars.

This was nearly impossible to find. Tidal...nope, Qobuz....nope, Spotify....nope. gotta be on Youtube nope couldn't find it. I had all but given up until I downloaded a free 2 month trial for YT music where some kind soul had made a playlist that matched the track list on Wikipedia. SUCCESS!!! So I teed up and pressed play. I wish I could report you dear reader that all that searching was well worth the effort, alas I can't in good conscience say that. I'm 3 songs in to a 20 song 2 hour and 15 minutes playlist and I'm ready to give up. Maybe as background music to a very pretentious dinner party this might work but as a "sit down in the sweet spot and listen" experience? Fahgetaboutit! Monotonous bass and drums music with the occasional ethereal voice thrown in. I'm just not down. 2 stars

2 ok electronic music. Super repetitive and way too long. Very monkey ball

Oh dear, too much dududududududududududududududududuud I think I made it through about an hour of the 3 hr remix album

I had to resort to Soundcloud to listen to this two hour journey through the jungle. Listener beware: the jungle will exhaust you. While it isn't bad, it's just too much music for one album.

Decent background music. Scratching my head wondering how it is that we have seen a Simply Red album, two from Steely Dan, and now a compilation yet at 150+ in and not one power chord from AC/DC.

Music like this is fine and all if listening in the background, or if you want to get stuck in a constant loop of being in a David Lynch film…only to realize you’re never leaving. I just find it perplexing how many albums like this have made the list.

Not for me. I don't hate it as background music, but simply too monotonous to listen to front to back. And please no more hour long songs. 1.75/5

Same old song and dance at this point, as I'm only here because of one Robert Dimery, and that probably goes for most drum and bass albums I sit through. They are, as always, solid background songs with this PS2-esque nostalgia, as if they'd fit perfectly into a racing game that doesn't exist, but, again, I say that about every one of these albums. Maybe this one has more energy than others in the genre? Can't say that for certain, as I'm sure I've said that before, too. The length is utterly insane, though, and its lack of streaming capability makes this a tough to track down, and it is even harder to sit through. It's... fine. It is an album that does exist. Maybe the production is amazing here? Maybe LTJ Bukem and pals are the cream of the crop when it comes to jungle influenced drum and bass? I don't know, I tuned out about twenty minutes in.

I call this music that makes you want to pee. Gets you all hyped up with the crazy drum beats and fast tympo so you have to go to the John.

The issue here is that it is just boring. If you're doing EDM music, i feel like you need to catch a vibe that drives and engages the listener. This is repetitive and uncaptivating. It's pretty surprising that there is something this so high tempo and beat crazy that is truly uninteresting. Nothing unlistenable, but it gets the fail because by the end you don't even care.

I got through the first hour, realized there were two-and-a-half more, and said “no thank you, good day.”

Not normally in my listening world. So, just acceptable or unacceptable, and this is good acceptable.

I’m not a drum and bass enthusiast- it sounds like the soundtrack of a scene in an action movie where the hero goes into a club full of spaced out people dancing vibrantly to an incoherent tune looking for the villain. Atmospheric but I feel like you need to be under the influence to appreciate this. Not listening to it sober and sane at your office desk! Not completely hateful but the epitome of tedium!

I didn't love it. Scratch that... I didn't like it. I think I've established that house, EDM, electronica or whatever this music is is not my thing. It's getting less my thing with each new entry.

oh great another edm. not the worst i've heard.

Not my thing

Hold music. Pretty and intricate, but still hold music.

For an album that should be right up my alley as an electronica fan, this one was too repetitive and a little boring for me.

That’s a no for me, dawg

I really don't know how to review this album. I know a lot of people listen and appreciate this type of music, but to me it's just noise; a repetitive kind of noise. I could put it on while I'm working since it's not engaging my attention whatsover, but it really isn't the kind of music I want to listen to. On the other hand, it's not making my ears bleed like some of the other stuff I've heard due to this project, which is why I'm not giving it the lowest score. 1.5 stars

Everytime the drums come in, it's basically the same drum sample from the "amen break" over and over. Every song has the same drums, maybe slightly changed. Maybe this was new and interesting at the time, or this was a breakthrough drum and bass album at the time, but now it sounds really repetitive and dated.

Ya know what's annoying after 20 minutes? Drum n bass. Ya know how long this album is? 2.5 hrs..... Buckle up! I don't understand why a compilation record is on this list in the first place. Seems like a cop out to me. The 67 minute song on this record, Logical Progression, reminded me of Father Fintan Stack's jungle music that he blasted constantly on an episode of Father Ted. ... A 67 minute song..... 67 minutes of nothing happening. The beat was established in the first like 30 seconds of the song, then held for over an hr. It's like that 10hr Gandalf Sax video on YouTube. 10hrs of nothing happening, and it's still more interesting than this pile of shit. Favourite song: Jazz Lick... I guess..... It all sounded the same after 2 minutes. Least favourite song: Logical Progression (no song needs to be 67 minutes long ffs) 2/5

I’m generally not the biggest drum and bass fan. There are exceptions such as The Prodigy and Pendulum, but otherwise it’s a genre that I find hard to enjoy. Unfortunately, this album follows the rule rather than the exception. It wasn’t terrible, by any means, but I’d also feel it to be stretching the truth if I said that I enjoyed it. It felt very much like a one-and-done, leaving me no desire to listen again. Whereas something like Invaders Must Die by the prodigy was played on loop in my car for months on end.

Sounds very generic and exactly like a million other songs I've heard in this genre. It could very well have been revolutionary for the time, and the reason it sounds generic now is that it's so often copied, but that doesn't mean I'll be inclined to want to listen to it again.

Holy shit too long, too repetitive and not particularly interesting. Scrapes a 2 purely on the basis that the music itself isn't completely unlistenable.

I had to listen on youtube because it's not available on streaming, and after a few tracks, I officially decided I wouldn't miss it on streaming. Fine enough background music, but not something that I'll ever actively listen to.

Irritating and repetitive, not much else to say really.

Continuous beats, fine for working but not very interesting

🥴 All the drum tracks sounded the same. I was skipping through the tracks in an effort to get through them and kept coming upon the same instrumentals!

In principle this is a nice collection of drum 'n bass but after an hour it becomes monotonous (and then there's still 1.5 hours to go). Besides, a compilation album from many different artists doesn't make sense in this list.

I put it on in the background while I worked out, so I didn’t hate it nearly as much as I would’ve if I really listened.

eh, there were parts of this that were ok but overall it was just kind of dull. i don't really want to listen to 7 minutes of a 9-minute song before it gets good. it may have been formative for the 90s UK drum and bass sound/genre but it's not particularly gripping in 2024 imo. i also feel like it's against the spirit of this list to include compilation albums but (unfortunately) it's not my list. favorites: solar system, above & beyond

This was a slog and I only played the first disc. Just not very engaging.

This is a thousand years too long, but it's reasonably enjoyable if you want something to throw on in the background while work or study and badly want to make no decisions about what music to play next.

Two virtually identical hour long songs at the end. No thanks.

WTAF

Pretty repetitive electronic.

oh god, I can't afford drum and bass breakbeat hardcore breakbeat trip hop neo soul funk

I actually went to raves in the 90's. This is the music that drove me crazy. It's too upbeat to chill out to, but there is absolutely no energy to it. It's basically ambient with a "bom...ta... bom ta" beat behind long melody-less pads. It might be good to focus on work or studying but to just listen to? No thanks.

I hear the logical progression but just sadly not appreciating it as much as there really weren't lyrics to it

At times I enjoyed it, at times I felt like I was on hold waiting to speak with a representative.

Not my thing

Boring - it would be better if it was more ambient and less repetitive. The tracks listed by the Wikipedia link are different from those on Spotify which doesn't include the classic track "Demon's Theme"; this review is based onthe Spotify album.

I like LTJ Bukem, but I don't think that that is the best representation of his work. It's a remix project, not an entirely original piece. Plus, Nineties-era Drum-n-Bass seems pretty dated now. Not the artists' fault...but with modern software, anybody can make beats that sound just as good. Two and one-half stars. The additional half-star is for the fond memories of hearing this music in the smoky clubs of the booming Warehouse District back in my twenties.

This is one of the hardest albums to rank on here because it's not an album. It's a compilation that accurately captures a very specific moment in the '90s drum and bass era. Is it worth being on the list to hit that zone? Yes. Is it not really an album at all? Also yes. 2.5/5

Drum and bass is cool but it will never blow mind. 3 hours is like psychological warfare.

Drums and bass, drums and bass, drums and bass over searing spacey soundscapes sounds over and over...Reminds me of a laser light show I saw back in the 80's, except it was probably Pink Floyd music and I seem to remember falling asleep to it even though there were lasers! Is this what future me has to look forward to? I sure damn hope not!

Not my jam

tutta uguale wow

This album is fine, but I don't understand why it's here. It's a compilation for one, which is fine in some instances, but there are tons of DnB albums, so it's not like this was bringing together music that you couldn't hear elsewhere. It's fine as an entry point into the genre, but that is not the purpose of this list 2/5

Workmanlike drumnbass that wears thin after a while.....though I feel the link takes you to the wrong album. And its a compilation....

01) Demon's Theme - 7,0 02) Links - 7,5 03) Music - 7,0 04) One & Only - 1,0 (not on You Tube) 05) Bringing Me Down - 7,0 06) Danny's Song - 1,0 (not on You Tube) 07) Vocal Tune - 6,0 08) Coolin' Out - 6,5 09) Western (Remix) - 7,0 10) Horizons - 7,0 11) Airtight (Remix) - 6,5 12) New Element - 6,5 13) Drums in a Grip - 6,0 14) Solutions - 6,5 15) In Too Deep - 6,0 16) So Long - 1,0 (not on You Tube) 17) Pharaoh - 5,0 18) Miles High - 5,0 19) Groove Therapy - 5,0 20) Mind Games - 1,0 (not on You Tube) TOTAL: 5,28 (53/100) So, on a day I don't have much time, of course, I get a double album... But here I am, at the end of the day, listening to this dreamy drum and bass for half an hour and I'm just at the beginning of the song number four. I don't dislike this kind of music, it's a great soundtrack for evenings (especially summer evenings), but we will see if and when my patience will start to fade... Oh, and a big minus for the fact that the album is not on streaming services so I have to listen to it on YouTube. Even there you can't find the whole album, some songs are missing. And at the beginning of the second part, my patience is kind of gone... I don't even know which song is playing. The tracklist is messed up. Oh, f**k this shit...

I don't think I'm a fan of listening to EDM. I appreciate the effort it takes to make, but this album was pretty repetitive and never really had clear melodies. I get that melodies aren't really the point in drum & bass EDM so I guess this just isn't for me.

I didn’t finish it. Got about half way through the first disc. It’s fine, but it’s extremely repetitive. I had no problem with the music other than that it just got boring after a while. Also, as a disclaimer, the album on Spotify is not the right one. I had to find it on YouTube.

Finally listened to this one; it sat in my "Unrated" list for about 15 months before I got around to it. The album wasn't worth the wait lol

I'm sure this album has some significance in this style of music. Mostly it just gave me anxiety.

Interesting. Not my cup o' tea

No idea what to say about this. Good background noise for focus! Didn't care much though

once again, my old nemesis, playstation racing game music. look this stuff isn't bad, it just isn't my bag. everything sounds like old video game music and not in a good or fun way. certainly not anything i cared to listen to 20 tracks of. not for me!

Weird

Not on Spotify, listened to a different TLJ Bukem album

Je ne peux pas mettre 3 à un album de drum & bass (question de principes)

I guess you would call this electronica? Club? Trance? I'm not sure. It's instrumental. It's ok. I've heard some I've liked better. Is it something I needed to hear before I die? Again, the inclusion makes me question the validity of the list.

Weird that it’s a compilation. Ambient drum and bass. I don’t think these electronic albums age very well. There’s some cool textures and beats but sounds incomplete to me without a singer or soloist. 1.5

I don’t even know if listened to the right thing. Maybe Lina would like this

On a fait le tour du big beat on peut arrêter maintenant merci bien.

Merci Robert pour ce super album qu'est-ce qu'on ferait pas sans toi

This is to Jungle what Free Jazz was to BeBop. With all the fun taken out.

2 - 2.5

The reviews for this were pretty mixed and quite interesting to say the least. Someone described the album as classic drum and bass which is not 100% wrong but more like the music you hear at the chill out tent in a festival - fails to really get out of 2nd gear

Not my type of techno. 2/5

Very very very repetitive.

Logical Progression is alright, I don't like drum and bass as a general thing, and that's why I won't give this a high mark, because while all of the stuff outside of the dnb beats is nice and very much more my thing, they all lead back to a sound and beat that turns me off. In lots of places you can stick a set of headphones on me in a quiet room and let me chill to this and it'll be great, but as I've said before I want more of a trance sound than dnb, so it has diminishing returns. It's just fine as it is, though it goes on way too long, I'll give it a 2.

Maybe it was influential if you're into this kind of thing, I just don't get it at all. Couldn't find a version on Spotify that matched Wikipedia's track listing, so used Tim's playlist suggestion, which was 90% identical (not that I probably would've noticed had it been a 100% match or only 50%, because it all sounds so samey). A bit too heavy on the beat to have as background music while you're doing something else, way too repetitive to actually listen to. 2/5, not offensive enough for a 1.

Meh, it was okay

Used to like a bit of drum n bass but this just felt exhausting. Must be age.

Was it probably way longer than necessary? Yeah. Was it repetitive at times? Also yeah. That being said, it has a mid 2000's internet vibe and it was really good to put on in the background to get into a flow. Cleaned a bunch of my apartment and hardly even noticed the time. I enjoyed it but also I am not listening to the last 40 minutes because it's giving me a headache.

Drum and bass is drum and bass. This is definitely top drawer in the genre, but it feels very flat without vocals. The last track is a with-vocals mix of the whole album, which I enjoyed a lot more. That alone would probably be 3 stars, but this one is definitely 2.

Great work music! A little repetitive sure but not the worst thing in the world

Not for me but genre defining. Unfortunately that genre is how fast you can beat out a pattern on a snare drum which is not my kink.

Not bad but nothing that grabbed me either.

Some good moments here but it's mostly 1 paced (yeah yeah dnb), and compilations shouldn't be in this list imho

Enjoying the twinkliness of Danny's song. Not my cup of tea but it's good... I was planning on a 3/5 but by the end I couldn't wait to turn it off so it's demoted to 2

Just not my thing... alright to put on in the background but the continuous one "song" into the next got old forme quickly.

I put on the first disc. Nearly fell asleep. Took notice of the FERRIS BUELLER sample. Nearly fell asleep again. The first disc ended. I'm good.

well that sure was drum and bass (it's like a 2.5 but i can't give it a 3)

A "drum and base" album. Never heard of "Logical Progression" or LTJ Bukem before and it is not on Spotify or Youtube. A true obscurity.

I am not now, nor have I ever been high enough to enjoy this album.

A compilation album? Isn't that kind of cheating? But then, if there are so many artists, how does each track sound so similar?

It's always going to be tough for me to rank drum and bass albums on this list, but this one was long, and didn't feel in any way spectacular or ground breaking. There was one section with a rap artist that stood out, but once again I am left wanting more from this genre.

So let me get this straight, Mr. Dimery . Compilations are authorized in your list, or are they NOT? If it's the first, then discard that one and place Buzzcocks' *Singles Going Steady* instead. And if it's the second, then just discard that one. The tracks by LTJ Bukem are nice drum'n'bass cuts with quite subtle and lush flourishes. And they aged pretty well considering how that particular electronic genre sounds dated overall in 2023. But minus a couple of exceptions here and there, the tracks produced by all the other artists are just a footnote written in tiny-ass letters in the book of electronic music. And once again, this double record is a compilation, not a proper album. I shouldn't even have to grade this thing. So next, please. Number of albums left to review: 321 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 302 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 167 Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many other records are more important to me): 220 (including this one)

Not found on Tidal... What I heard from LTJ Bukem was not for my ears

Oh my god!

3/10. In addition to being over 2 hours of the same shit, this is a compilation album. Not only are compilation albums not supposed to be on this list, because this one has been around for over a quarter of a century, there's been plenty of time for the copyright to get all fucked and make it impossible to find all of the songs on one platform. And like, the actual music is fine, it's drum and bass, not really my thing, but kinda cool if I don't have to listen to it for hours on end. And is it just me, or do a ton of these songs have the same basic drum beat? Is that the point? Ah well, at least I know that there can't be any drum and bass left on the list because it took me until after the final album on the list generated to track down all of the tracks for this.

I’m not even convinced this is multiple different songs, much less a compilation of multiple artists. It all sounds exactly the same, and it never ends…

Ambient drum and bass

Not listening to techno.

More of a compilation album than an LTJ Bukem album

There are two things this reminds me of. First, the initial flowering of internet radio stations in the UK in the late 2000s. Ninety percent of them sounded like Logical Progression, occasionally punctuated by some callow Home Counties youth mumbling some knackers about proper tunes. The other thing Logical Progression sounds like - every damn track of it - is the menu music of a PS2 game with a name like Cyb3rBitch or somesuch. Either way, this isn't a great listening experience.

For being on the computer and taking care of some light work, this album was okay to have on as background noise. That really is meant as an endorsement of this album, however. I can't really figure out why I really like Moby "Play", but I see this is a meandering mess; but I do. Maybe it's this album's lack of structure or anything cohesive in the tracks: who really knows? Choosing a drum beat, a bass line, and throwing in some vocal/sound effect samples, and then repeating it all for 6-8 minutes isn't really a good formula for anything. If I were the type to drop acid or do Molly, then this album would be amazing. But I'm not, and it isn't.

I really don’t have anything negative to say about this album, it just was complete background noise. I was doing busy work while listening and I didn’t even realize I had finished the album which was 3 hours. I mean it wasn’t bad, there’s just literally nothing to say about it.

<clicks on link to album in Apple Music...> me: "What in the everliving hell...!?! **THIS IS A 3.5 HOUR COMPILATION OF DRUM AND BASS?!***" .... and I don't hate it...? In all seriousness - I can put this on at literally any point for a ~10-15 minute period and hear the same thing. I suppose that's almost the point, which ... this works really great for studying or working. I'm working now in fact. Just make it 40 minutes. Tops. There's no need for anything longer - I can set it on repeat and get the same effect. I have no idea what to "rate" this album - it doesn't work like anything else. If I want to listen to music....I don't really want to listen to this at all. If I want background ambience and to not be distracted by intricate melodies or structure, this is kind of perfect. I should probably give it a 3 since I could see myself playing it in the right conditions...on the other hand I just can't give it middle of the road because I don't know if I can distinguish this from any random youtube highlight video of 3 hours of e.g. Space Station footage or some of my weekend Ableton experimentation. 5/10 2 stars

Repetitive meaningless nothingness

Ok, first of all I am morally opposed to the idea of a compilation album being on this list. Second of all, this album was basically impossible to track down. There’s a “Logical Progression” album available on Spotify that does not contain any of the tracks listed on Wikipedia. It’s mostly available on Youtube but still missing some tracks, though you can find the missing tracks individually. So it was a high maintenance album to listen to in order. Oh, it’s also TWO AND A HALF HOURS LONG. So, was it worth it? No. Was it at all good? Kinda. The tracks were all decent as far as the genre goes, though I wouldn’t listen to it again. They all sounded the same to me. If it was significantly shorter and not a compilation album I may have given it a 3, but…. it IS two and a half hours long, and it IS a compilation album. Which is cheating.

Rating: 5/10

This is just one of those weird progressive albums that is a bunch of noise.

Background music for me but ok

Meh nothing interesting here

90s ps1/00s ps2 hellscape vibes

Noisy, repetitive, unoriginal. There are some real Jungle gems out there. Why choose THIS ONE to rep the genre? Also, compilation albums are cheating. Which makes it even more egregious that this is on the list. If you're going to cheat, at least win.

3hrs of drum and bass, eh? Wow…..uh. Thanks?!

I was bored.

I appreciate what this album is doing, but to me it’s just background music.

Way too long, I did not listen to all of it. I didn't hate it but I don't get it either

3/10

Trouble finding this album on Spotify due to copyright but believe I listened to correct playlist. Interesting sounds but WAY TOO LONG! Can only listen to so much of this! Maybe the original album isn't that way?

I nearly made it through the 3+ hours, but I’m taking a break from working and I think I’m done with this one.

The album under this name on Apple Music is an entirely different tracklist, so I went and made a playlist of everything I could find from the original compilation. I figure I'd better at least give it a fair shot. While it is probably significant for its time... I think AI could legitimately produce hours and hours of DnB under the name of an established DJ and no one would know the difference.

Fyrsta hlustun var ekki að gera sig fyrir mig.

An hour of recycling beats over and over for an interminable amount of time. Then, they run them all together in a mix for an hour, and *then* do it again, but with lyrics. Tedious.

Huh

It's inoffensive enough that I will give it two stars. Maybe someday I will listen to it as ambient music when working. Otherwise I don't see much replay value in this album. As an untrained ear it all sounds the same to me which isn't something I love in a 2 hour+ album Song going on my "1001 Songs" Playlist: Demon's Theme. I think once you've heard the first song you've heard it all on this album. Other Songs Going On My "1001 Albums Savelist" Playlist: None

Unnecessary and way too long

Nope. Elektronik, langweilig.

Not a fan of this one.

Uhhhhh, moker vaag. Niet zo’n fan

Ja, wat moet je hier nou over zeggen. Als dit in een koffietentje zachtjes op de achtergrond zou staan. Dan zou ik het wel kunnen waarderen. Het geeft wel goede vibes

Can only rate based on what I was able to find online - Demon’s Theme was pretty darn good but a lot of the other tracks just blended into each other and got quite samey, nowhere near as exciting as the opener

So that was definitely two hours and twenty minutes of drum and bass.

This is what the cool spas play.

This is mayonnaise.

Dit was prima om bij te werken, maar dit raakt me verder weinig.

Drum-and-bass gaat toch best snel vervelen.

Strange that the Spotify version was an entirely different collection of songs. Found someone who had mixed the original tracks together on Soundcloud. Pretty standard mid-1990, moody, background, dance music. Not really compelling. An MC might have helped. Far too long.

2 stars

Not sure what was linked was the actual album but if the guy wants to make it hard to listen to his stuff so be it.

The book mentions that this music sounded fresh at the time, and became "the preferred soundtrack in hip cafes, hair salons, and fashion stores." This perhaps is insight into why it sounds so weak to me. My first exposure to this may have been at the mall, being reluctantly dragged along running errands with mom when I was 8 or 9. I dont know if that's the case, but the album made me feel underwhelmed and I was glad when it was over.

Basically sounds like if Missy Elliott worked behind the bar at The Rover's Return.

Not into drum n bass bit it wasn't too bad...

Didn’t know CD Projeck Red released an early draft of Cyber Punk 2077s soundtrack 2/5

Another day, another crap electronic album. Im convinced that Robert Dimery just went to his closest record store, grabbed the first 10 or so electronic albums he found and added them to the list.

1 out of 5. When I read this album was celebrated alongside Goldie's Timeless I knew I was in for a not-so-good time.

Ain’t no way I’m listening to 3.5 hours of instrumentals another shit album on this list

Way too long

Good grief, I mean come on!

- this joins the list of other repetitive synth- and drum machine-heavy dance choices that I have to imagine are more of a reflection of the personal musical preference of the book's author and less an actual true "hear before you die" album - this is extremely similar to other albums I've already encountered within the first 100 albums of this project: William Orbit's Strange Cargo III, Suba's Sao Paulo Confessions. how many more atmospheric soundscapes do you need to represent this genre of music? if you skip through any song 20-30 seconds at a time, there is so little variation between what’s going on during the first minute vs. the seventh minute that it’s almost impossible to tell that you’ve skipped ahead at all - when I think of what might make an album that I believe someone absolutely must hear before they die, I can think of a couple of different criteria one might consider when making their choices: * an iconic album with songs deeply embedded and referenced in pop culture (Queen's A Night at the Opera with "Bohemian Rhapsody," Led Zeppelin IV with "Stairway to Heaven") * an album that’s personal to the artist that encompasses some dimension of the human experience (Jeff Buckley’s Grace) * an album that pioneered a movement or transformed a genre (Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper) * an album that is completely unique that sounds nothing like anyone has created before, expanding what can be considered “music” (Portishead's Third) * an album that captures a little-known cultural tradition (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) * an album that pioneered a now-standard technique or method of making music (Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene) but I just can’t understand how this album fits any of that criteria. it is completely indistinguishable from the other works in this genre from any time period, in my opinion - I give this a 1 as a way of just asking “...why?” to the book’s author (p.s., I thought compilation albums were excluded in the actual list — so why is this here)

No time for 2hr spoken word tracks.

immediately no

I wouldn't even listen to this as background music. Repetitive, tedious and annoying.

I found it on YouTube. O!M!G! Unless you're REALLY into drumming, it was boring.

I refuse to believe that this isn't the club music from mass effect for three hours. Do yourself a favour and play mass effect instead. Then at least you get to see shepherd dancing.

No idea what this is but sounds like it will be electronic music. Guess we’ll see. The version on Spotify seems to have a different track listing than Wikipedia. There’s a version on YouTube I’ll try. It’s just dance type music. Kinda feels like background music. Not sure what this genre is that this has a compilation. I think it’s interesting in small doses but a double CD length of this I’m not ready for. I feel like I’m in the matrix. It all starts to sound repetitive. Just a drum and beat, but it is something different at least. Feels different so guess I understand its inclusion on the list, even though it’s not an album but a compilation. Not sure how to rate it. Just too much of the same, so think I’m going 1. It’s also incredibly long and about 2 hours. Not for me, even if it’s inoffensive background music.

Lost in space! Langeweile, nächstes Level!

cansado

Drum & bass, que ha venido quedando olvidado pero que en su día causó furor, pero ya queda demasiado lejos. Si ya está Timeless de Goldie este puedes obviarlo. Si tienes Born Slippy Nux, también. No es lo mejor del 96, ni siquiera en este estilo, ni en otros parecidos (DJ Shadow o Tortoise sacaron más brillo), así que un doble no me parece la mejor opción.

Not my cup of tea at all

More bland than a sack of potatoes

You haven't missed anything if you haven't listened to this album. There is absolutely nothing interesting here, nothing which explains why it is on this list. Just go out in the park, walk along a road, listen to some random sounds ... all of these are musically seen as interesting as listening to this album.

Who honestly listens to this

Spotify linkki johti levyyn, missä oli aivan eri biisit ja pelkkää instrumentaalia kuin Wikipedia artikkelissa. Ei jaksanut kuunnella.

Some bullshit

eh... DNF

I didn’t hate the music, it was just there. But for a compilation album of 3 hours to be included on this list, no thank you… skip

Whether I listened to the original on YouTube or something else on Spotify, it was a drag. Drum and bass, this is it then, the term sounds better than the repetitive dreary forever sounds. 1 star

No. The only way this would be interesting is if I could watch a drummer play live. For one song.

⭐ Drum and Bass, jungle, what ever, det här är helt ointressant för mig. Fattade inte grejen när det var som störst och det är ingen skillnad nu. Lyssnade bara igenom det för att få det gjort, det är inte heller så dåligt med tanke på hur otroligt långt albumet är. Det är väl inte så att det är hemskt utan mest bara otroligt tråkigt och inte väcker några känslor över huvudtaget. Tycker dessutom det är konstigt att ett samlingsalbum med diverse artister är med på denna listan. Blir en 1a för att det är så tråkigt och jag aldrig kommer lyssna på detta igen. Bäst är kanske Jazz lick?

I ain’t fuckin listenin to all that

Meh

Didn’t enjoy

Could not finish this. Didn't make it through even 3 songs. Those goddamn machine gun drums and high hat killed me.

this sounds like something i made in my dorm room on fruity loops in college. what is supposed to be remarkable about this album that i need to hear it before i die?

Why anyone would need to listen to this is beyond me

2/10

Nope

i listened to the original version on youtube as recommended by another review, and it was a lot better than the version on spotify so i'd recommend doing that. unfortunately i still hate drum & bass and i hated this

Quickening BPM does not translate into an artistic achievement. I don't get it.

When i saw that the album on Spotify was over 3 hours long, i had a peek at some reviews. One reviewer had very kindly pointed out that the spotify album was not the original. So its off to YouTube, to listen to this one. CD1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZK_0dgj43s CD2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYqDVqYSTxs OMG what a fucking irritating album punctuated by irritating youtube adverts. I will never play this again.

Fuck off.

Shut up about the sun!

I do not like drum and bass. I could not finish the album.

I knew going into this album it was a long one. My expectations were pretty low, so at least I wasn't disappointed with the repetitive electronic noises, samples, and vocalizations. The only positive I can say or this album is that its space sound was ethereal. Anyway, this was some hot garbage. Why was a compilation album like this here?

The worst thing an album could be is a waste of time, which is what this was.

Not really an album

honestly, this is a vibe. its very repetative though. i do enjoy the electronic beats and synths but i would not put this on again. theres better things about there. 3/10

Nah man no thanks Will I listen to again: 0%

12 songs and it’s almost 3.5 hours?!?! You have got to be kidding me. No way I could sit through all of this, the genre is not something I’m even remotely interested in and if it were I feel like there are better albums out there.

Yeah, so it's not for me. I'll pass on the drum n' bass where everything sounds the same...

Hard pass, this was not good at all.

Just awful. Every track sounds the same and goes on way too long. This might work on the dancefloor or as background music in some kind of party or lounge context. As an album it just doesn't capture interest or provides any kind of development.

Stylish one trick pony that leaves me cold after the first track.

Not for me Repetitive annoying