Jungle was a reaction against happy rave’s crossover commercialism. The music did not so much die as go back underground, becoming darker and more sinister in order to reflect the prevailing, early 1990s mood. By this time in dance music, there had been plenty of media scare stories about ecstasy fatalities. As drug use spiralled for some clubbers ...
found and enjoyed. ‘If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution.’ Emma Goldman, American feminist writer Styles Disco House Acid House Tribal/Progressive House Hardcore Happy Hardcore Trance Jungle Drum’n’Bass Techno Gabba Breakbeat Big Beat UK Garage US Garage Tech-House Dance Style As it is made for dancing to, dance music is characterized by a strong, steady ...
Across the centuries and around the globe, many different forms of music have enjoyed mass appeal for a limited period of time. None, however, have been able to match the widespread influence of the popular music that erupted in America during the mid-1950s and, by the second half of the decade, was exerting its grip over ...
William John Clifton Haley was born on 6 July 1925 in Highland Park, Detroit, and raised near Chester, Pennsylvania. His parents were both musical, and he got his first proper guitar when he was 13. Even though he was blind in one eye and shy about his disability (he later tried to distract from it with his ...
styled Black Tie White Noise (1993). He continued to experiment with modern musical styles, drawing on industrial rock for Outside (1995) with Eno returning as producer, and incorporating jungle beats on Earthling (1997). Hours (1999, made available as a download before the CD was released), Heathen (2002), with Tony Visconti back as producer, and Reality (2003) found ...
Universally acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s emblematic composers, Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington used his long-standing touring orchestra as a tool to create wholly unique tonal colours and a distinctive harmonic language in jazz. His career was characterized by the close and long-lasting relationships that he struck up with particular musicians and other figures from the music business, ...
(Producer, vocals, b. 1965) Clifford Price a.k.a. Goldie was the most significant and visual exponent of the dance style known as jungle that emerged out of drum’n’bass in the UK in 1993. Early Angel EP (1993) and ‘Inner City Life’ single (1995) were masterful and his major label debut album Timeless (1995) confirmed his talent. A highly ...
(Trumpet, 1903–32) A key figure in the Duke Ellington Orchestra of 1926–28, Miley played a lead role on such classic pieces of early Ellingtonia as ‘East St. Louis Toodle-Oo’, ‘Black And Tan Fantasy’ and ‘Creole Love Call’. His uniquely expressive, growling trumpet style was influenced by the plunger mute approach of King Oliver, and served as one ...
Ridiculed as a braggart, pimp, card shark and pool hustler, the audacious, self-proclaimed inventor of jazz Jelly Roll Morton was also hailed as a pioneering composer, gifted arranger, dazzling pianist and the greatest entertainer that New Orleans ever produced. He was one of the first jazz musicians to strike a perfect balance between composition and ...
(Showdown!) and in 1986 recorded Bringin’ It All Back Home, an adventurous hybrid of African music and blues. He continued this fusion on his last recording – 1996’s Jungle Swing (Verve), featuring jazz pianist Randy Weston. Singer Shemekia Copeland is his daughter. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Jazz & Blues Personalities | Robert Cray | Eighties | Jazz ...
UK bubblegum pop No. 1. The Lemon Pipers always wanted to explore a more psychedelic direction, however, and by the time they were finally allowed to self-produce 1968’s Jungle Marmalade, they had lost all commercial appeal, and disbanded the following year. Personalities | Thunderclap Newman | One-Hit Wonders | Rock ...
You’. With the punk revolution dying out The Ramones continued to seek longevity, working with 10cc’s Graham Gouldman for Pleasant Dreams (1981) and bubblegum veteran Ritchie Cordell for Subterranean Jungle (1983). Even though they could not achieve a hit album they could still headline the California Festival in front of 500,000 people. The Godfathers Of Punk The band reached ...
The breakbeat is, literally, the percussion-only segment of a funk or disco track, where the dancers would cut loose. Finding that this was often the segment they most wanted to play, disco DJs would cut between two copies of the same record to create a funky drummer mélange. In the mid-1970s, too, Kool Herc invented ...
wildly. Rappers Roots Manuva, Black Twang and the more pop-oriented Ms. Dynamite are all riding high, and all deliver their lyrics in clear Jamaican timbres. Meanwhile drum’n’bass, jungle and UK garage are all the result of fusing rap with reggae and other dance styles, with a sense of adventure that goes back to SoulIISoul in the 1980s. ...
the sound, and suddenly, drum’n’bass was the buzzword on the lips of fashionistas everywhere. The major labels duly came begging. Hearing Is Believing As a parallel to jazzy jungle, others began to develop a science out of painstakingly building percussive breakbeats. Producers such as Lemon D and Dillinja produced tearaway monsters such as ‘The Acid Track’ and ‘Tudor ...
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