New Forms

Roni Size / Reprazent

1997 · Drum & bass

Talkin' Loud · 534 933-2

Why it's here

Won the Mercury and made D&B briefly respectable; a double album with a live band

New Forms won the Mercury Prize and made drum & bass briefly respectable, a double album with a live band that brought the genre a mainstream legitimacy it had never quite had. 'Brown Paper Bag' was everywhere in 1997, and the record's breadth is real. The prize is not a ranking, which is why it sits just below Modus Operandi rather than above, but as a statement of the genre's arrival it stands alone. It made D&B legible without dumbing it down.

Also ranked

Dancefloor: № 105
Influence: № 47
External poll: № 81

Tracklist

1-01Railing2:04
1-02Brown Paper Bag9:03
1-03New Forms7:44
1-04Lets Get It On6:58
1-05Digital9:04
1-06Matter Of Fact4:04
1-07Mad Cat4:55
1-08Heroes6:34
1-09Share The Fall (Full Vocal Mix)6:13
1-10Watching Windows5:32
1-11Beatbox1:09
1-12Morse Code6:58
1-13Destination8:31
2-01Intro0:53
2-02Hi-potent6:52
2-03Trust Me6:26
2-04Change My Life8:27
2-05Share The Fall6:25
2-06Down6:50
2-07Jazz6:03
2-08Hot Stuff6:31
2-09Ballet Dance6:41