Chapter Eighteen
Outro
21 records, in the order the book names them
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001
Ripgroove
Double 99
Yet because its non-breakbeat rhythms appeal to house fans, speed garage has achieved way more popularity and commercial success than jungle ever did; genre-defining singles like Double 99’s ‘Ripgroove’, 187 Lockdown’s ‘Gunman’ and Fabulous Baker Boys’ ‘Oh Boy’ (a brilliant remake of Jonny L’s ‘Hurt You So’) were propelled into the UK Top Twenty only months after the scene’s discovery by the media.
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Gunman
187 Lockdown
Yet because its non-breakbeat rhythms appeal to house fans, speed garage has achieved way more popularity and commercial success than jungle ever did; genre-defining singles like Double 99’s ‘Ripgroove’, 187 Lockdown’s ‘Gunman’ and Fabulous Baker Boys’ ‘Oh Boy’ (a brilliant remake of Jonny L’s ‘Hurt You So’) were propelled into the UK Top Twenty only months after the scene’s discovery by the media.
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Hurt You So
Jonny L
Yet because its non-breakbeat rhythms appeal to house fans, speed garage has achieved way more popularity and commercial success than jungle ever did; genre-defining singles like Double 99’s ‘Ripgroove’, 187 Lockdown’s ‘Gunman’ and Fabulous Baker Boys’ ‘Oh Boy’ (a brilliant remake of Jonny L’s ‘Hurt You So’) were propelled into the UK Top Twenty only months after the scene’s discovery by the media.
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Oh Boy
Fabulous Baker Boys
Yet because its non-breakbeat rhythms appeal to house fans, speed garage has achieved way more popularity and commercial success than jungle ever did; genre-defining singles like Double 99’s ‘Ripgroove’, 187 Lockdown’s ‘Gunman’ and Fabulous Baker Boys’ ‘Oh Boy’ (a brilliant remake of Jonny L’s ‘Hurt You So’) were propelled into the UK Top Twenty only months after the scene’s discovery by the media.
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005
Sound Bwoy Burial
Gant
Then there’s the fierce, jungle-dominated style that’s been called ‘dangerous garage’, tracks like Gant’s ‘Sound Bwoy Burial’ and Strickly Dub’s ‘Small Step’: baleful sub-bass pressure, dub-noise (sonar bleeps, sirens, gunshots, explosions of reverb) and patois dancehall shouts ‘timestretched’ so that the sample seems to crack apart like it’s afflicted with metal fatigue.
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Small Step
Strictly Dubz IV
Then there’s the fierce, jungle-dominated style that’s been called ‘dangerous garage’, tracks like Gant’s ‘Sound Bwoy Burial’ and Strickly Dub’s ‘Small Step’: baleful sub-bass pressure, dub-noise (sonar bleeps, sirens, gunshots, explosions of reverb) and patois dancehall shouts ‘timestretched’ so that the sample seems to crack apart like it’s afflicted with metal fatigue.
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Dig Your Own Hole
Chemical Brothers
The Chemicals’ second album Dig Your Own Hole was even more rockist.
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Setting Sun
Chemical Brothers
On their breakthrough single ‘Setting Sun’, they teamed up with the biggest rock star of the day, Oasis’s Noel Gallagher, for a track that sounds like a fusion of The Beatles’ ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ and Public Enemy’s ‘Rebel Without A Pause’.
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Brimful of Asha
Cornershop
(Indie’s revenge: Norman Cook remixes Cornershop’s late-Velvets pastiche ‘Brimful of Asha’ and it gets to Number One!)
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010
Everybody Loves A Filter
Fatboy Slim
And so tracks like Fatboy’s ‘Everybody Loves A Filter’, Dr Bone’s ‘I Came Here To Get Ripped’ and Environmental Science’s ‘The Day The Zak Stood Still’ marry rush-activating riffs, stabs and tingle-textures with boombastic breaks ’n’ sub-bass; DJing, Norman Cook has been known to mix Public Enemy’s ‘Bring The Noise’ over the acid-tweekin’ 303-driven funk of Josh Wink’s ‘Higher State of Consciousness’.
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The Day The Zak Stood Still
Environmental Science
And so tracks like Fatboy’s ‘Everybody Loves A Filter’, Dr Bone’s ‘I Came Here To Get Ripped’ and Environmental Science’s ‘The Day The Zak Stood Still’ marry rush-activating riffs, stabs and tingle-textures with boombastic breaks ’n’ sub-bass; DJing, Norman Cook has been known to mix Public Enemy’s ‘Bring The Noise’ over the acid-tweekin’ 303-driven funk of Josh Wink’s ‘Higher State of Consciousness’.
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Higher State of Consciousness
Wink
And so tracks like Fatboy’s ‘Everybody Loves A Filter’, Dr Bone’s ‘I Came Here To Get Ripped’ and Environmental Science’s ‘The Day The Zak Stood Still’ marry rush-activating riffs, stabs and tingle-textures with boombastic breaks ’n’ sub-bass; DJing, Norman Cook has been known to mix Public Enemy’s ‘Bring The Noise’ over the acid-tweekin’ 303-driven funk of Josh Wink’s ‘Higher State of Consciousness’.
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013
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
Truer to Big Beat’s immediacy-is-all-that-counts attitude, the debut Fatboy Slim LP Better Living Through Chemistry is more like a ‘greatest hits’ singles collection than an album.
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Everybody Needs A 303
Fatboy Slim
‘Song For Lindy’ features an oscillating piano-vamp melody-riff that flashes back to Brit-rave’s euphoric peak circa 1991; ‘Everybody Needs A 303’ rubs seventies slap-bass up against Roland acieed bass-drone, topped with a psychedelic soul chorus courtesy of Edwin Starr; ‘Going Out Of My Head’ has the nerve to nick the powerchord-riff from The Who’s ‘Can’t Explain’ and the nous to make it feel modern rather than mod (none of Britpop’s sepia-tinted retro-referentiality).
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I Can’t Understand It
DJ Hype
His exhilarating EP ‘Mass Hysteria’ recalls the scratchadelic mayhem of DJ Hype and Danny Breaks’s ‘I Can’t Understand It’; tracks like ‘Afro (Blowing In The Wind)’ feature old skool rap sliced ’n’ diced into locked-groove blurts of glossolalia, 78 r.p.m. squeaky voices, incongruous eighties pop samples.
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Mass Hysteria
Rasmus
His exhilarating EP ‘Mass Hysteria’ recalls the scratchadelic mayhem of DJ Hype and Danny Breaks’s ‘I Can’t Understand It’; tracks like ‘Afro (Blowing In The Wind)’ feature old skool rap sliced ’n’ diced into locked-groove blurts of glossolalia, 78 r.p.m. squeaky voices, incongruous eighties pop samples.
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017
Charly
The Prodigy
Back in late 1992 The Prodigy seemed, for all their hit singles and healthy album sales, like a band without a future: their destiny was surely to go down the plughole along with the rave scene Mixmag gloatingly accused them of destroying with a single song, ‘Charly’.
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Music For the Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
By 1994, the band were playing rock festivals, selling to NME and Melody Maker readers, and wowing the crits with Music For the Jilted Generation: a vaguely conceptual album that protested the crackdown on rave culture, from local councils refusing licences for commercial events to the Criminal Justice Act’s assault on illicit raves.
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Poison
Babylon Timewarp
After a slew of hits – the rock-guitar propelled ‘Voodoo People’, the awesome slow-mo break-and-bassquake ‘Poison’ – The Prodigy scored their greatest triumph in early 1996 with ‘Firestarter’, a metal-riffin’ hymn-to-destruction that sampled grunge grrls The Breeders and The Art of Noise.
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Firestarter
The Prodigy
After a slew of hits – the rock-guitar propelled ‘Voodoo People’, the awesome slow-mo break-and-bassquake ‘Poison’ – The Prodigy scored their greatest triumph in early 1996 with ‘Firestarter’, a metal-riffin’ hymn-to-destruction that sampled grunge grrls The Breeders and The Art of Noise.
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The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
With corporate heft behind it, The Prodigy’s third album The Fat Of The Land went straight to Number One in America (and in another twenty or so countries as well).
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