Reviews (page 5 of 7)
So... This album should be listened to in it's continuous mix version. I would've loved to listen to this as a live set, around 4-5 in the morning, high on ecstasy. However, as an album for listening at home, this gets boring very fast. The changesare so subtle between tracks, that it sounds like an hour of the same drum 'n' bass track. 2/5
For some people, there's a time and a place for drum and bass, but, alas, a Friday morning before I've had my coffee ain't it for me. I can appreciate the craft, but I was just waiting for it to end
This is not my cup of tea. It felt like I was listening to the same song on repeat. Some parts definitely went on for too long. There were some jazzier parts that were fun Liked Songs: "Solar System" , "Night Train" , "Universal Music" , "Jazz Lick" , "Reflections"
No standouts
Worse than their reputation.
Not necessarily bad music, but the length itself is enough to make me dislike it.
The only reason this isn't 1 star is because I like drums
There’s a time and a place. This wasn’t the time or place.
It’s all background music, it just transitions between up-tempo work lo-fi to the “I know kung fu” scene in the Matrix, to video game grotto adventure. It’s fine.
Too long, didn't listen much.
Might be ok for a party, but not in the car on the wayto work
I really have no critical frame of reference for this sort of music. I guess it's fine, inoffensive? The maker obviously had access to a computer and owns a pair of ears.
Good study music and, if it was on Amazon Music, would certainly replace some of the albums I currently have on rotation when I need to do focussed work. Other than that though I'm not really putting this on, nothing stand out for me, I much prefer a bit of Roni Size, DJ Hype or Micky Finn...
I've not listened to much of this music but I quite enjoyed the first CD. It was good background to work to. The 2nd CD was a but more of a struggle
Enjoyable in the background, it’s no Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada but I’d probably put it on again
I liked listening to this, i was working and it played on the background and i felt in the zone for most of the time. Nice recommendation
Day 105 Not for me at all
Honestly really long background music
Drum and bass, a little monotonous, hyper speed breakbeats Demon's theme
big 2
It’s good as a background music for work. That being said, it feels like I got an hour long rain sound or lofi beats to study to - not something I expected from an album on this list. Very forgettable
This album reminded me of a ride i really liked called Whirlpool that used to be at Knott’s Berry Farm. I really liked it. But not for 3 hours
My least favorite thing about the genre Drum and Bass is all of the bass and drums that they have in the songs. Everything else about it when it comes to the electronic features I can get down with. But just the constant beat of drums is exhausting to listen to. Not quite a 1 because it did have parts that were cool but the lowest of 2s. One of the most relieved I have been to finish an album on this whole list
So the album this takes you to is not the same as the one on Wikipedia. Not really quite sure what to believe, but I'm listening on Youtube as that one is only 2 hours and 17 minutes (as opposed to 3 hours and 27 minutes). Alright this is cutting in and out. It's ok cuz I think I get it. If it wasn't over 2 hours I would probably stick it out.
My brother loves this. I don't really like it. D 'n B is an acquired taste. You have to know what to listen for to appreciate it. It's not about melody and lyrics at all, like most music in the book. It's made primarily for dancing. It has lots of subtleties in the rhythm. Like on the first track the accent shifts all the time. But most of the tracks are just repetitive, monotonous, and progressing too slowly for listening. And way too long. So I can't give it a very high rating. Favorite song: music
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While not my vibe, this was a pleasant surprise. I didn’t hate it. Good zoning out and working music.
Dad- NA Mom- 4 Mike- NA Lori- 4 Michael- 4 Miles- 4 Cole- NA Avg- 4
1-star for the album bumped to 2-stars because it's so dull it cured my insomnia
Pretty dull
Nothing bad but mostly just background noise and not really worth the two hour+ length
Ei paskaa muttei iskenytkään. 1,75/5.
I like 8-bit chip tune, so had some hopes when this started. Those who compared it to Mario Kart music are spot on. Not terrible, but as an album too long and repetitive. I can see this being for someone, but not worth being on this list. 2⭐️
I will be hearing drum and bass in my sleep for years to come. I did not necessarily dislike the album, but literally nothing about it sticks out. I do not like this genre of music. This is a compilation album, so not even one artist's work. I don't want to give this a 1, because it's not bad. It's just not an album I would ever listen to again, not even a single song probably.
The only reason this is a ⭐️⭐️ and not a ⭐️ is because my 5.5 year old said she liked one of the songs that had the quiet high pitched “beep boops.” She used different words, but liked the part nonetheless. The album also reminded me of the “Cool Borders” soundtrack: “Lean air!”
Some people like jerking off more than having sex
it’s 1998 and I fell asleep w the main menu of 1080 snowboarding on a loop
Just not into this kind of stuff. Also....3 hours??? oof.
Great background music when completing a mundane task. Nothing really grabbed my attention
Kinda felt like listening to the same song for nearly two hours.
Boring, repetitive. I was so grateful for any track (e.g., “Bringing Me Down”) that had vocals or a little life.
It's not bad but a two disc compilation of D&B is just too much. 2/5.
That was tedious.
Not THAT bad but it’s just hours of the exact same thing. I’ve listened, I’ve moved on.
Don’t enjoy just instrumental
synthesizer drums . was ooit modern
I was reeeeeeeeally tempted to slap a one star rating on this puppy and look the other way. Two hours long, not on Spotify, all obscure electronica. Fuck me. But, in actuality, it kind of bangs. Yes, it's boring. Yes, it's basically just beats after beats after beats. But it's also kind of a mindless vibe, and in a weird way, the absolute best music I've ever had for running. In conclusion, I would play it at the gym, and I'd play it on any run, except actually I never will because I'm not sitting through those YouTube ads.
2.5
It’s not like I have a problem with this, it’s nice background music, but… what’s the point? Do people dance to this?
Felt a lot more listenable than Roni Size, my only real reference to this type of music. No desire to really spin this again, but it wasn't bad.
Some albums I’d love to read what they say about in the book, I’ll likely end up getting a copy to do this. What would they say to this over hour same song?
Maybe I'm just old, but I don't get it. I'm not a big fan of drum and bass personally. It's sooo repetitive.
Não é desagradável, mas é inócuo. Música para "preencher" o ambiente de cafés, aeroportos e restaurantes. Não faz sentido constar deste livro.
Not my jam.
not the style of music I gravitate towards but it’s good!
Would you like to hear the amen break with gated reverb for nearly 2 hours?
Decent but kind of boring, not much happening
Just fine as background or club music, but hlad there was some sort of platlist that seemed representative of the original recording instead of the almost 4 hour 'album' on Spotify
Well that's an hour of my life I'll never get back. 2 stars because there was an occasional 45 second section I didn't hate
Not for me. Went on and on, every track the same. My son loved it, though. DNF.
I do remember when Jungle was the Big Thing, for a hot minute, with LTJ Bukem being the King of the Hill Listening again now, I’m wondering what all the fuss was about
Too repetitve for me, even as someone who likes house music/techno
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It was really good to work to. It was quite long even by electronic album standards. Good cover art, feels like you can guess the type of music just by looking at it. Don't really have a problem with it being a compilation album to help sum up a movement. But if this is allowed how is No New York not on here to sum up the no wave movement? Rating: 2.4
This felt like a homework assignment. I got through it and that’s the best I can say about it. Rather monotonous and overly long.
So know I know what genre drum & bass is - and that I can skip it anytime I come across that genre in the future! I just found it to be boring and ultimately forgettable. Hard pass.
Way too fucking long and all the songs sound the same.
Any one of these songs individually is fine, but they are too samey to grab your attention, especially over the course of two hours plus.
That's not my taste in music - boring
3 hours 30mins - I like the idea of space. But track 2 being 1 hour long was an insult. Nice vibe if I wanted some space age and techno house music. Not so much for my commute and walk into the office…
meh
It sounds like the music they put here local news on the radio before the show actually starts.
Not great
This is just ok, another album that I really have to ask why?
This is just a fine (at best) album that's hurt by it's length. With editing, might get to be a 3, but I never really need to hear this again.
Sooo, I understand the Spotify link isn’t the actual album. However, that’s what I went with. Over 3 hours of samey drum and bass, ffs. I’ll not be listening to it again, as I usually do. It’s more suited to a DJ set or a club night. Not something to sit listening to on the bus
2+ hours of drum and bass? I mean sure in the right setting with the right drugs maybe but top 1001 album ever? Fuck right off. I’m rating based on LTJ being original and a trendsetter and defining a genre but I’m not listening to this whole thing wtf
i didn't hate it, but it's not my kinda music
I listened to most of this album but didn’t get to finish it. Fortunately, I don’t think I missed much because personally this album wasn’t for me. Unfortunately, it just fell flat and was very repetitive to me. Kinda just sounded like space age lofi music for most of it. I don’t see myself listening to this again in the future.
I think I listened to this wrong. I think I was just supposed to listen to the one hour song entitled “Logical Progression” which is a mashup of the proceeding songs. Even if it were only an hour, that’s still more D&B than I want.
Decent techno album. Not my favorite music but is listenable.
Don’t think this is the right album? But if it is. It’s a no for me.
It's not my music at all but it was okay as background music.
Loading screen music
Still working through it, far too long. Music is ok, just don't see a situation where I'd sit down and listen to this by choice
90s electronica. Drum-and-bass compilation. Repetitive lounge music.
I do enjoy some drum and bass, and I was good with this album being on for the first hour, but another hour of it proved to be too much for me. Even just as background music I don’t think there are any circumstances where I’d want to hear this for over two hours. I don’t think any of it is bad, just exhausting as an album experience.
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It's chill background music. Liked it but it gets way to repetitive for continuous listening
Had a lot of trouble caring about this one.
As a drummer, appreciate the complexity of the rhythms, but for just listening to music, not my thing.
Why make this so difficult to listen to the full album? It's not correct on Spotify, tracks are missing on the YouTube version. I think it's weird the Spotify version has an track that's just the album as one long track. If you didn't like the album the first play-through, why would you want to listen to is as one hour-long track? But the album itself: again, I just find this stuff tedious. Mainly because there's no variation. And... two HOURS of it? Nope. NEXT.
Yesterday I had the excellent Revolver by The Beatles so this is not a logical progression. 2/5 28/7/25
Sounds like the background of a 90s-2000s video game.
Maybe I listened to the right album? Either way, I put in my three hours and I’m counting it as completed. I can see how this would be a perfect album to have playing in the background while playing old video games, unfortunately when I listened to it I wasn’t doing that. I also don’t think it would improve the rating. I’m only going with a two because we’ve listened to some truly wild shit on this list so far.
Is the goal of this album to have other artists sample it and then just collect royalties off of those samples? Create a 15 second loop. Repeat it for 8 minutes. Add a quiet part 2/3rds of the way in. Now repeat that 7 times. You now have an album. At least the 15 second loops were good.
I don’t think I listened to exactly the correct album on Apple Music, but I know at least some of the tracks were correct and regardless, there’s not a lot of variation here. I don’t mind this sort of thing as background music but it’s pretty dull actively listening to it. Meh.
I'm curious under what circumstances they expect someone to thoroughly enjoy 2+ hours are rather similar sounding DnB songs... 4/10
just background music. unnecessary.
The father of “lowfi beats to study to”. Regardless of the effort it took to make this album, it was nothing to me. Nothing at all.
Noperino. 1.5/5
Album #840 and to my knowledge it's the first one I did not listen to in its entirety. The version on Apple Music had the same album cover, but totally different tracks than what Wikipedia says. YouTube had bits and pieces, but copyrights prevented me from finding all the songs. Just a major pain in the ass to cobble together the original album, not to mention the different versions and mixes there were out there. Anyway, I listened to about 90 minutes of something resembling this album and I wasn't impressed at all. Most of the tracks were obnoxiously long and repetitive. How many times can you do the Funky Drummer drum break as your entire song?! If they were going to cheat and put a compilation album with different artists on here, you'd think it would be better than this. Let me make a suggestion on what to replace it with. How about "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D?
Repetitive
Once again, we have a 2+ hour long album that I listened to ahead of time for my Mega Album Mini Project. Here's my review from September 2024: Why are drum and bass albums so unbelievably long? Seriously! Between this and a few others on the list, I’m pretty sure every drum and bass album is nearly or over two hours long each. That’s insane. Anyways, this album’s okay, I guess. It’s not very interesting to me. It literally isn’t even a cohesive album experience. It’s literally a compilation album. There’s value in compilation albums, sure. I just don’t think they should really be on a list like this because it kind of feels like cheating. The sound of Logical Progression is fine. It works well enough as background music. If you have a 2 hour long task to do and you really like electronic music, this could be for you. It’s not for me though. I don’t really care much about this one. Despite many songs being made by different people, this album felt kind of repetitive. Nothing really stuck out in my mind as being particularly good. Also, this album literally isn’t even on streaming. There’s an album called “Logical Progression” by LTJ Bukem on Spotify and Apple Music, but it’s not the original version of the album. It’s completely different and is much shorter. Quite frankly, I wish I had listened to that instead. Maybe I would feel better about listening to an hour of this kind of music than two hours. As it stands though, I just don’t really think this should be on the list. It’s fine for what it is, but I just feel like there’s better inclusions, even in regards to the drum and bass genre. According to the website, there’s three drum and bass albums on the list: This one, New Forms by Roni Size and Reprazent, and Timeless by Goldie. Timeless was the earliest of the three and can be considered the most essential in forming the foundations of the genre, and New Forms, which I have listened to in my goal to listen to the longest albums on the list ahead of time, felt more original to me and seems to be more of a fan-favorite. I’m not upset I listened to this, but I do question this album’s inclusion. Still, it’s certainly not the worst thing I’ve heard. High 2/5.
niin paljon eri artisteja tarvittiin tämän kompilaation kokoamiseen mutta miksi. kysyn että miksi näin monelle annettiin parrasvalojen alle aikaaa. tämä ei tosiaan ole kovinkaan hyvä albumi. erittäin tylsää breakbeat breackkcore jungle tyyppistä rumpujen hälytystä ilman minkään kaltaista dynamiikkaa biisien sisällä tai niitten välissä. noh pari pientä kohokohtaa ovat sanomani vastaisia joka ehdottomasti nostattaa kompilaation arvoa huomattavasti. muuten vaan cash grab.. sellout.. whoore.. whooooooore! harmillista että tämän aikakauden jälkeen elektronisen musiikin tuottaminen loppui täydellisesti heh ainakin listan mukaan heh above & beyond
Of the hundreds of albums I've listened to so far from this list, this was, without a doubt, one of the longest.
Another nope for me - just not my genre in any way, shape, or form. Okay background music, but their are much better backgrounds
Can't review this objectively, it's just background music to me. Very ho-hum, boring background music. Is this better than other electronic drum-bass music? No idea. Don't care
I actually do enjoy this kind of stuff, as an ambient soundscape in the background while working. But definitely feel like I dont know or care enough about the genre to know what makes this special or essential listening. Also the apple music version is 3.5 hours, which is just insanity if you're not listening passively
Kinda makes me nostalgic for wipeout.
bah
Interesting, but not that interesting.
#634. This is probably good as background music while studying or some thing. 2/5: fine
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
Sounds like the song I have playing inside of my house in Animal Crossing
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.
Wasn't sure if I'd heard this before and just not rated this particular 2 hour drum and bass album but then how would you ever be sure. Everything blends into one, which is sort of the point I guess but makes really bland to listen to. A few bird and animal noises every now and again which gave some tracks shades of the three bean salad Pompidou jingle. I'm sure this was revolutionary in launching a genre of club tracks to get off your head to but not essential in this context.
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.