Number 181 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century20th CenturyJungle / Drum & Bass
68 Million Shades
1996 · jungle · jazz · drum and bass
Trade 2 · TRDCD 1000
№ 181 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century
Jungle for people who read; it aged better than the sneering suggested
Spring Heel Jack treat jungle as material for composition on 68 Million Shades, bringing jazz and art-school instincts into the breaks without embalming them. At times the arrangements threaten to float away from the physical pull of drum & bass. The intellect cools the floor from time to time, and the ambition has held up. Then a break snaps back into place and the whole record remembers where its weight lives.
№ 19 on The 10 Best Jungle and Drum & Bass Albums
Jungle as compositional material rather than dancefloor form. The art-school wing at its lushest.
Also ranked
- Dancefloor
- № 147
- Influence
- № 181
- External poll
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Tracklist
- 1Take 15:47
- 2Midwest7:36
- 360 Seconds5:36
- 4Pan7:38
- 5Plates5:40
- 6Bar4:38
- 7Eesti6:58
- 8Roger Tessier5:00
- 9Island6:05
- 10Suspensions8:46
- 11Take 23:39
- 12Take 38:24