Logical Progression

First of all ... now we are having compilations on this list? Secondly, if this is a compilation of different artists, why do all ths songs sound the same? Thirdly ... 3 hours ... really?

Fuck this album. I was about an hour in and pretty much hating it, THEN I discover that it’s not even the correct one!! (on Apple Music) anyway, the one that I listened to bored the shit out of me - all the songs are forever long, there is absolutely NOTHING going on during most of them, and I was pretty much bored shitless after the first song-and-a-half. DnB should be renamed S&M as you’d have to be a masochist to subject yourself to 1 hour, let alone 3 or more

Enjoyed at first, but found it a little hard going re last two tracks. A 3 plus hour album!

wow that was the longest song ever

Might be the first skewed album on here. The whole thing wasn’t on tidal & some of the songs are muted /just not available on yt. These feel like they’re straight outta a 2000s racing ps1 game, which I perilously fuck with. With that said, a lot of this feels like background music to me. Brb, selecting my cart and modifications… I loved Horizons the most.

Aight

Not my jam, not my stuff, but I think I can appreciate it on a certain level... initial thought is to give this a 2 simply because I can't see myself returning to it... Say if an Aphex Twin album came up on here I'd probably give it a 2 as well, despite the project's undeniable impact and importance. This is all my personal taste, right? It all just kind of runs together and isn't easily differentiated.

Dance boys be like 'I'mma make a 2 hour album, but each song will be the same 30 seconds of music looped for 7 minutes'. Dance boys be like 'I'mma try this new drug, tap a few buttons on this keyboard, and call myself an artist'. Dance boys be like 'I'mma live off one top ten hit in the UK for the rest of my life and remember the good old days getting sucked off by a harpy in Manumission'. Dance boys be like 'I'mma make the music slow and say it's chill then drop a faster beat and say it's hype, then put the too together and claim to have started a revolution'. Dance boys be like 'I'mma blast this full tear with the windows down while cruising in my Nova through the centre of town, and go extra slow when I drive by the 15 year old school girls'. Dance boys be like 'I'mma pretend to be a DJ by buying a 2nd hand pair of decks from cash converters, and cross fade between this and my Ministry of Sound compilation EVEN when mum says to turn it down'. Critic boys be like 'them dance boys will come after us if we don't attempt to legitimize their tripe by sticking it on a list, so lets just pick a random compilation'. Smart boys be like 'WTF is this doing here - it's not very good, it's far too long, it's a compilation, and every song is the same'.

Ehhhh it was fine. Very mid. I like drum and bass just fine, it makes good ambient background music, but it all basically sounds the same to me and two full CDs worth is a bit much, LOL.

Дуже топова збірка, бенгер за бенгером. Є трохи вайби атмосферного дʼнʼб, але вони дуже точкові і гарно тут працюють. Вчора дуже кайфонув. На спотіку веде на якийсь неправильний реліз.

Сильно не мій жанр, хоча нічого поганого про цю музику не можу сказати. Поставлю нейтральні 3.

DNF

I don't have 3.5 hours to listen to 20 identical drum and bass tracks....

Do you want literally endless dnb sounds that transgress time and space and you leave and re-enter your house throughout the course of a whole morning? Not me. Happy birthday to me.

There are cool elements to this album and I like that it's mainly instrumental and has an ambient quality. I just find the beat a little too relentless and hectic. I think the beat is the main thing that defines this genre, which is why I'm not a huge fan of the genre.

Great rainy day fall music

This felt like the artists just discovered that drum groove and could not get enough of it. Hearing the same groove for over two hours is way too much for me

You are either into DnB or not into DnB, barely any room in between, tight ledge in between I reckon. This is good, intelligent, classic DnB. Cool that its a collection.

I do enjoy a bit of D&B

Good beats. Very nostalgic.

That’s a lot of music! 2.7

Favorite Song: Coolin’ Out Least Favorite: Vocal Tune

The Spotify playlist was released 2013 and is 3.5 hours long. Found the ‘96 release that matches the Wikipedia track list on YouTube. Two tracks missing, but those are available on Spotify. It’s not called ‘Level 1’ despite the picture above.

I thought compilations weren’t aloud on the list? And what an odd album to violate that principle for. It doesn’t sound awful so I’ll spare it 1*, but there is no reason for this to be on the list.

Despite this being a compilation album, there's more consistency in terms of sound across these tracks than there is on many albums with songs all by the same artist. The first track pretty much sets the formula, fast and rhythmically intricate breakbeats, ethereal synths, heavy bass, all good and enjoyable. But then you get to the next track and its basically the same thing, and then the same thing for the next track and the one after. This genre, while enjoyable in small doses, isn't really suited to a 3 hour compilation.

This is a 2-star album for me not because I think it’s bad exactly, but rather because I just don’t ‘get’ it. I can’t tell why one track/album in this sort of genre is critically lauded and another is not; it’s all much of a muchness to me. Perhaps if I really dove into the world of electronic music I could develop more of an appreciation for it, but life’s too short. If you really enjoy this stuff that’s great, but at the end of this album’s two-hour runtime I’m just left feeling really bored and also rather perplexed.

Pretty good electronica.

One long Metroid theme.

Not really bad per se. Just way too long for what it offers.

This Atmospheric Drum & Bass feels like being trapped on a futuristic conveyor belt that never reaches its destination. Fast breakbeats keep rattling underneath layers of soft, spacey synths and deep bass, creating an initially interesting electronic landscape, but the basic motion hardly ever stops or changes enough for me to care. Tracks blend into one another until the whole thing feels like one enormously long piece of background music. What some listeners experience as hypnotic and atmospheric instead becomes monotonous for me. After a while, I stop listening to the individual rhythms and simply become aware of how much time is left. The futuristic atmosphere is there, but rather than transporting me somewhere exciting, it feels like being stuck inside the same machine for hours.

Cook electronic music. Somehow chill and still hype at same time

I just know this is gonna be dull based on the album art. And I was right! It's not bad, but it is pretty rote. Not so subdued as to be hotel bar music, not so intense as to really get you moving, it's just kind of there. It's not bad, and I do like some dnb, but two hours of this stuff just gets old - as has the sound itself. Time has passed it by. And it's a comp. Eh.

Music to CS surf to and that’s totally fine but nothing to rave about (pun intended)

I love DnB stuff like this, and listen to it all the time during work, but I won’t pretend it’s anything revolutionary. It’s still just beep boop music for 3 hours.

Bonkibonkhakhak, Eric-muziek dus. Ik vind het op zich wel aardig, maar het is wel weer meer dan twee uur van 't zelfde. Het is voor deze lui nou eenmaal steeds weer te verleidelijk om op hun computer gewoon een paar keer extra op 'kopieer-plak' te drukken. Om de een of andere reden zijn een paar tracks door Youtube eraf gelaten, maar ik ga er vanuit dat ook die meer van precies het zelfde waren. Ook deze keer weer een punt aftrek wegens te lang en te saai. Had ik al gezegd dat het veel van het zelfde is? Bonkibonkhakhak.

Dit is toch opvallend. Ineens krijgen we een mixalbum met nummers van meerdere artiesten. Tot vandaag had ik het idee dat dit soort albums geen kans hadden op een plekje in de lijst. Niet dat ik het gelijk erg vind. De samenstellers konden sowieso niet de 1001 albums vinden die ze nodig hadden voor de lijst. Wellicht had het hen geholpen als ze meer van dit soort albums konden meenemen. Maar nu is het dus een uitzondering. Dat maakt mij benieuwd. Ook het label 'jungle' maakt mij nieuwsgierig, want daar hebben we nog niets van gepresenteerd gekregen. Het eerste nummer suggereert dat de jungle is van het begin van de jaren negentig, toen nog meestal rave genoemd. Dat mis ik wel in lijst. Experience van The Prodigy had ik er zeker in gezet. Ook als derde album van de band, omdat de drie albums volledig anders zijn. Toch blijkt het merendeel van het album drum & bass te zijn. Dat label stond er ook netjes bij, maar het is net iets minder mijn smaak. We hebben ook in die hoek maar weinig referentie in de lijst. Ik kom zo snel op Roni Size en Goldie. Vooral die laatste vond ik veel fijner. Zelfs deze liefhebber van digitale muziek vindt het album van vandaag wat eentonig. Wellicht ook, omdat het een dubbelalbum is.

Blijkbaar is dit album samen met Goldie's Timeless, die we al eerder mochten beluisteren voor de 1001-lijst, een van de landmark drum-n-bass albums. Of althans in ieder geval van het betreffende decennium. Goldie's Timeless was voor mij veel van hetzelfde en uitermate saai. Daar was ik niet van onder de indruk. Dit begint vooralsnog iets spannender. Al kijk ik nog wel op tegen die 2 uur aan muziek die ik nog krijg. Het is op zich wel afwisselend, voor het genre. Dat is eenzelfde soort opmerking als "je ziet er jong uit, voor je leeftijd" of zoals Theo Maassen al zei "je ruikt best lekker, voor iemand die stinkt". Nu kan ik best een portie Eric-muziek hebben op zijn tijd, maar ik moet dit wel echt op gaan knippen in stukken, want een uur is al aan de lange kant. Wat dat betreft is dit voor mij dan ook geen fijne album-ervaring. Ik hoor liever 1 dikke track in een playlist met ook andere genres dan 20 nummers bliep-bliep boem-tjaka-boem achter elkaar. Ik kan best goed begrijpen dat mensen dit een hele vette plaat vinden overigens, maar dan moeten die mensen dit maar een hoog cijfer geven. Ik kom net als bij dat andere landmark drum-n-bass album niet verder dan 2 sterretjes.

Jazzy electronic music.

…this feels like a very random album to appear on this list? I am very confused. I even went to the corrected links posted in the reviews and it was better than the incorrect Spotify link but still didn’t feel especially exceptional or special in any way to me.

- The album with this name on Spotify is not the same album featured in the book or on Wikipedia. Most of it is in fact on Spotify under different names and on different albums. It's an utter mess. I actually had to build a playlist just for this. - It's a compilation, not the work of one artist. Some of these tracks LTJ Bukem merely produced and others he just happened to be the manager of the label that released them. Dimery and co have absolutely taken a stab in the dark to include something they know nothing about and bent all their own rules in doing so. - It's over 2 hours long. It feels like every minute of it. - It's also repetitive, lacks variety and is completely uninteresting for all of those 2 hours. How do you run the drum track for that long without any discernible bassline and not get totally bored of it? - A Logical Progression to a 1-star rating and never darken my doors again.

A compilation album made the list?

#ocean

Somehow I knew this would be weird instrumental music. I’m getting good at predicting genre from the cover art. Good background music as I was writing a document, but would never listen to this just to listen to it. Plus the last two songs are each 1 hour long. Pass.

12 songs = 3HR 27 MINS. Fuck off

Meh

What I've come to think of as a "1001 albums special" unremarkable, overlong, 1990s British electronic music. The fact that I'm only ~130 albums into this and it feels like I've already heard half-a-dozen of these albums makes me worried for how much more is lurking in the list. It may be influential, even foundational in its genre, but it is relentlessly dull and unmemorable. It does nothing to offend my musical sensibilities, but just as little to endear. I will forget about this album by tomorrow.

new album to work to discovered

An interesting album, perfect to groove to while I worked.

King of liquid dnb/jungle. Put this on cleaned my house top to bottom, 2 hours flew by. Not sure if it's a "greatest of all time" pick, by virtue it's just a compilation/mix by ltj bukem. Half the songs aren't produced by him. And if you were to include mixes there's probably more intersting picks. Fabio and Groove rider drum and bass arena for example.

Oh gawd

You would think that a ridiculously sped up breakbeat would make for a stressful and hectic listening experience, but surprisingly it is the complete opposite. The ridiculous speed transforms the beat into a abstractiom thatt's flowing, meandering, breathing. Incredible arrangements too: While the beat sits right in the middle as the backbone of the compositions, the lower frequencies are occupied by bouncy, bubbly sub bass lines, while the upper frequencies serve ample room for some ethereal and jazzy synth pads.

This was just so boring and repetitive. . . and long. Nothing else I can really say about it.

Music - Instrumental Peshay Rework

Not really an album

Silly sounds. N

6/10

It's good but I don't see it as groundbreaking. Half way through it even got a bit mundane for me

Some of this is giving very YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR. Some of it gives Oblivion queue at Alton Towers. Bit of a nightmare to listen to, proper version ain't on Spotify and YouTube won't let you listen to the original 2 CD version without having some songs copyrighted (god YouTube is the worst). So I had to listen to it whilst doing my spreadsheets and writing my python code, and it really was lo-fi beats to chill/relax to!

It's not too different to putting on a generic dnb youtube playlist but it's good enough for me to consider just putting this on instead. It's 2 hours of well produced yet inherently repetitive music, thankfully I like it.

I got 3 tracks into this and gave up. Judging by the rest of the comments, I made a good decision. Generic, repetitive, crap

Fantastic

It's been said elsewhere, but it's worth mentioning again - the album on streaming services is not the correct one. It's not even close. Check the YouTube links below to listen to this outstanding release that defined 'intelligent' D&B - music that's as comfortable in your headphones as it is the dancefloor. CD1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZK_0dgj43s CD2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYqDVqYSTxs

A pointless, tedious, stupid album masquerading as art, cerebral depth & creative musical composition.

albums in this book fall into three types 1. well established canon 2. deep ish cuts 3. genuine exploration into genres that have been pushed aside because of rock dominance. this falls into 3 and people on this site really are only interested in 1 and sometimes 2. a shame

This is very much my thing. Beautiful pads and those rolling drums. Great atmosphere throughout.

I liked this

On some level you have to hand it to drum-and-bass artists, it's kind of admirable that they've managed to build a whole scene with only one beat between them.

That was like listening to Mario Kart, but in the best way. Love that D&B sound. I could have stuff like this playing at all times and I'd be happy Favorite Songs: Vocal Tune, Rings Around Saturn

Mega als Hintergrundgezuckel beim Arbeiten. Aber wer will denn solange arbeiten??

Grundsätzlich netter Sound, aber VIEL. ZU. LANG.

Toiugh to find as it's not really on Spotify. But I found some created playlsits for it. I really loved it. DNB can be boring but this hit the mark for me.

Name your favourite track and explain how it is different from the others. Go on, I dare you.

One of the comments calls this out, but the album this links to on Apple music is a 12 song 3.5 hour slog and apparently doesn't contain a single track that was on the original release referenced here. So like what's the point?

the spotify version and the original release are completey different!

New to me. Really enjoyed this one - I am no expert on D&B but this is exactly the sort that I like.

Annoyingly, this is not on my streaming platform (Amazon) so had to listen to it on a combination of YouTube and the tracks that are on Amazon. Disc 1 is great, music and horizons are obviously classics but I like the PDF tracks… This is not an album. Though, it’s a good compilation. 3.5

Three and a half hours long? I enjoyed what I listened to but yeah, I managed about the length of a regular LP.

New to me. Unsubtle would be a kind description. I had just about enough endurance to get to the end, but I won’t be listening again. Watford lad though as I found out, so defo scrapes into the bottom of the two stars. Tom.

I just found this quite dull. Perfect background music as it provoked no real emotion at all.

Giving this a 3 as I listened to it straight edge and I'm pretty sure that had a definite impact on my connection with the vibe, yo.

all skips, i even tried throwing it in a playlist with some other stuff to see if it'd work better being thrown in the mix instead of trying to white-knuckle the full 200 hours, but to no avail

I LOVED this. Listening to this record re-ignited my love for Drum and Bass, a genre that I haven’t been really into since I was a teenager! One of those perfect listens where I had the excitement of hearing something I had never heard before, yet it also evoked an incredibly strong feeling of nostalgia.

Wow! Wonderfully surprised! This was a really fun, awesome listen. Probably some of the better drum n' bass I have heard (of the little drum n' bass I've heard). Probably will return to this periodically.

Moooooodddd beaaaats

I’ve heard it has been grouped together with Goldie’s Timeless as an essential drum and bass album but Timeless had some variety and vocals etc. A lot of this sounds like it could be computer generated. YouTube started playing a related album automatically and I couldn’t tell!

Rare case of me having never heard of an album on here. Musically it's quite nice, I've always liked dnb and music of the sort. Maybe a little too long for me but I don't mind in this case. Would give this a 3 but I see too many dorks on here giving this low scores so i'll bump it to a 4.

You can see so much influence in basically all of drum and bass written all over this album. Which is good, because I like drum and bass.

I'm sure this was groundbreaking in 1996 when it came out, but it just didn't grab me.

3 hours.................

Favorite track(s): Demon's Theme, Bringing Me Down, Horizons, Airtight (Remix), In Too Deep, So Long, Groove Therapy, Mind Games

Had to listen on YouTube because it isn't on streaming services. This is a compilation album and I plan to look into the featured artists a bit more. I love DnB so this was a fun listen.

It's a pretty decent vibe. I probably have this one in the background. S it's pretty chill, but it's got a good bassline to it. I listen to both of the cds on yt, so I really have no idea what song is what, but I would say a lot of it ends up sounding very similar to each other because of that. I genuinely don't have a clue what any of the tracks are colds or how long any of them are. I'd say I prefer cd 1 over 2, not for any particular reason that's the vibe I got. Fav Track: CD1

אהבתי את מה ששמעתי אבל זה שלוש וחצי שעות לא שמעתי את הרוב

Probably fine to put on in the background while you're working, but does that make this good music?

Thank God for the Internet Archive. It appears that the version listed on Spotify and even on Youtube are incomplete or just flat-out inaccurate to the original lineup. If anyone is curious to actually give the compilation a proper shot as it is intended to be listened to, I'd highly recommend it. Especially when it comes to the second half where all the tracks are mixed to flow into one another seamlessly. A good technique to keep the momentum of the music moving. I'd say it was pretty good. Definitely sent me back to high school when I listened to a whole lot of House, DnB, and all variety of other electronic music. As a compilation made to highlight the artists under Bukem's label it delivers. As far as dedicated listening though I feel it kind of dragged on a bit, and not all tracks are personal standouts to me. As something to simply vibe to in the background though, it remained enjoyable. Fav Tracks: "Demon's Theme" by LTJ Bukem, "Western (Conrad remix)" by PFM and "Miles High" by DJ Trace.

OK

The last two songs are over an hour each. But the album is pretty good, decent focus music.

This sounds like something I made on Garageband when I was 12

I genuinely didn't think I'd see a drum n' bass album on this list. That's a nice change of pace.

Ik vind drum'n bass nog wel eens geinig, maar dit is allemaal wel heel langdradig. Het mag van mij wel wat meer dynamischer. Nu is alleen de beat snel, maar de muziek niet.