so, it's 1995, and i'm living in a shared house with 7 other people in manchester (england)... if drum 'n' bass/jungle was the sound of 1995, surely one of the other people in the house would be listening to it. well, no. in fact, i don't know anyone who listened to drum 'n' bass regularly at all... maybe my friends weren't urban enough -- but when i tell you i lived in inner city manchester, i would not be exaggerating one iota (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longsight)... yet, i never heard drum 'n' bass when i was walking up the dickenson road or down the stockport road. but in 1995, the nme decided we should be listening to jungle and drum 'n' bass... and so it shall be...
there's nothing wrong with this album per se... it's not my genre -- which is fine -- but it's just bloody repetitive... i'd be happy to put it on in the background, the way some people put classical or new age music in the background, but i'm not sure i could ever really actively listen to it... the 20 minute opening track 'timeless' really did start to bother me after a while -- the female vocalist sounded like a second rate jamiroquai if jay kay had been a woman... the rest of it, well, this might be shocking given the provenance and "street" quality of drum 'n' bass, but reader, it was harmless... obviously, the finer points of drum 'n' bass are, and were, lost on me... this was not the sound of my 1995 -- maybe it was the sound of yours?
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