firefinga
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Was Jilted Generation a big influence on this stuff? I was wondering if that album was a bit of a one-off but thinking about it now seems obvious that it belongs to that breaks lineage.
No I don't think so, "Music for the Jilted Generation" was still very much preceived as "uk breakbeat" - hardcore/proto-jungle of sorts - at least that's my teenage-self remembering it when it came out. The track "Poison" though was proto-big beat without a doubt.
I personally think Big Beat rather was the rude cousin of Trip Hop
And then there was this odd "hope" of Big Beat finally breaking "electronic dance music" for the masses in the USA around 1996/97.
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