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Urban75 Album of the Year 1994

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Knotted

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1994 and Oasis have saved the day and not for the last time.

To be honest I thought the early 90's were a rhythmic desert and Oasis weren't a rhythmic oasis. Maybe an unpopular opinion. It wasn't the rock crowd who saved the day, it was those electro kids with their new fangled jungle sound.

Anyway the commissar will instruct you on which jungle records to vote for. You may also vote for Jeff Buckley he was bloomin' brilliant actually and people don't say that to sound hip, honest.

Please send me a list by the end of the month. Only albums, no singles, no eps, no compilations, no compilations masquerading as two eps. I may consider dj mixes if that is a thing in 1994.

You are to vote using the following format

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jungle Artist Angus - Angus' Jungle Album
Jungle Artist Bethany - Bethany's Jungle Album
Jungle Artist Cedric the Great - Cedric the Great's Jungle Album
DJ Desperate Dan - Desperate Dan's DJ mix that upsets belboid

Obviously best at the top because Jeff Buckley is at the top.

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Anyway, whatever, find me some jungle. I need some jungle. Get me some jungle. I need jungle in my life.
 
The year the music blew its brains out in the greenhouse. Difficult year for American alternative rock which is what I was mainly into at the time (I was raving a lot too but I didn't know what any of the music was called). A highlight for me is this from Pavement, grumpy and discordant at times but still a very pretty record in places.

 
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Knotted said:
no compilations
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After a quick skim through what albums came out in 94 I was surprised at how few leapt out at me. I was 21 and obsessed with music. Why were there so few albums from this year that had a big impact on me? And then I realised. Most if the best music in 94 was on compilations. There's absolutely loads of compilations and mixes from 94 that are seared into my brain.

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The Laurent Garnier X-Mix and Dave Angel's Trance Lunar Paradise were the first times I heard Detroit Techno. The run on X-Mix 2 of Galaxy 2 Galaxy->Rhythm is Rhythm->Kenny Larkin remains one of the greatest moments in music. The Dave Angel mix was mostly all new music at the time but most of these tracks are solid gold classics now. These albums are two of the core tenets of my musical taste.

That led me onto other incredible techno compilations: Colin Dale's Outer Limits, In Order to Dance 5 (absolutely the best in the series), Soma Quality Recordings and Planet E/Carl Craig's Elements Of And Experiments With Sound in its petri-dish case.

The Drum & Bass Selection comps were my window into Jungle. You can hear how fast the music was developing over the year from the 3 volumes that came out. Vol 2's my favourite. And then there's Hard Leaders 4 & 5 which are both full of jaw droppingly excellent jungle/hardcore.

Progressive House was at it's peak before turning into the dour plodcore it'd be a few years later. Sasha & Digweed's Renaissance mix was massive and turned all kinds of people onto dance music. I had a friend who previously only listened to Paul Weller that got obsessed with it.

Guerrilla Records had another great comp on Dub House Disco the Third. I bought the Pannarama comp for Emperion's Narcotic Influence, but the rest of it is a load of excellent housey trancey stuff that became a classic in my house if nowhere else.

Trance hadn't yet got stuck in it's formulaic rut and the Trance Europe Express and Logic Trance 2 comps are full of excellent tracks that haters would describe as not really trance, just because they're awesome and don't sound like all trance that came out after 95.

I love all of these and there's not an album from 94 that has the same place in my heart. And they're all BANNED.
 


Ridiculous leopardprint-clad marxist indie band from South Wales make one of the most intense and harrowing records ever, complete with probably some of the best guitar work of the decade, before hiring a string section and doing number one singles that your mum quite liked.
 
We can revive the age old Orbital vs Underworld argument if anyone still cares in 2024...

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Spandex said:
After a quick skim through what albums came out in 94 I was surprised at how few leapt out at me. I was 21 and obsessed with music. Why were there so few albums from this year that had a big impact on me? And then I realised. Most if the best music in 94 was on compilations. There's absolutely loads of compilations and mixes from 94 that are seared into my brain.

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The Laurent Garnier X-Mix and Dave Angel's Trance Lunar Paradise were the first times I heard Detroit Techno. The run on X-Mix 2 of Galaxy 2 Galaxy->Rhythm is Rhythm->Kenny Larkin remains one of the greatest moments in music. The Dave Angel mix was mostly all new music at the time but most of these tracks are solid gold classics now. These albums are two of the core tenets of my musical taste.

That led me onto other incredible techno compilations: Colin Dale's Outer Limits, In Order to Dance 5 (absolutely the best in the series), Soma Quality Recordings and Planet E/Carl Craig's Elements Of And Experiments With Sound in its petri-dish case.

The Drum & Bass Selection comps were my window into Jungle. You can hear how fast the music was developing over the year from the 3 volumes that came out. Vol 2's my favourite. And then there's Hard Leaders 4 & 5 which are both full of jaw droppingly excellent jungle/hardcore.

Progressive House was at it's peak before turning into the dour plodcore it'd be a few years later. Sasha & Digweed's Renaissance mix was massive and turned all kinds of people onto dance music. I had a friend who previously only listened to Paul Weller that got obsessed with it.

Guerrilla Records had another great comp on Dub House Disco the Third. I bought the Pannarama comp for Emperion's Narcotic Influence, but the rest of it is a load of excellent housey trancey stuff that became a classic in my house if nowhere else.

Trance hadn't yet got stuck in it's formulaic rut and the Trance Europe Express and Logic Trance 2 comps are full of excellent tracks that haters would describe as not really trance, just because they're awesome and don't sound like all trance that came out after 95.

I love all of these and there's not an album from 94 that has the same place in my heart. And they're all BANNED.
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I love that Keoki album and may even vote for it. But I’ll whip myself with a bunch of twigs as I do so
 
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