Trance versus jungle

«Ultimately, it is all down to a gut-level response, whether you prefer trance’s clockwork-regular Kraftwerk/Moroder pulse-grooves or jungle’s staccato, thrash-funk judder-quake. It’s whatever gets in your pants, works your booty and your imagination. But putting on my critic’s cap, I’d say that jungle’s uproarious schizo-eclecticism is paying greater dividends than trance’s solemn purism. At its best, jungle is like a gutternsnipe Can (same James Brownian rotorvation, similar ‘flow motion’ ethos). Jungle is the bastard child of the John Cage/Byrne & Eno/23 Skidoo avant-disco tradition, shunned and scorned where the supposedly rightful inheritor of that tradition, trance/ambient, is feted. But illegitimate heirs tend to lead more interesting lives.»
- Simon Reynolds, The Wire, 1993

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Published:
06.04.08 / 10pm
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