18120th Century
68 Million Shades...
Spring Heel Jack
1996 · Jungle/jazz
Trade 2 · TRDCD 1000
Why it's here
Jungle for people who read; it aged better than the sneering suggested
68 Million Shades... is jungle for people who read, Spring Heel Jack bringing an art-school sensibility and a jazz sophistication to drum & bass. It aged far better than the sneering at the time suggested, a record of genuine ideas and real musical ambition that treated the genre as a serious form. It ranks at a hundred and eighty-one because the intellectual approach occasionally cools the dancefloor energy, but the ambition was real, and it's held up.
Also ranked
- Dancefloor
- № 148
- 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