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actually cried to this after running out of gak once and thinking of someone who I couldn't be with at the time. One of the best 94 tunes with the melancholic melodies and plaintive vocal.

proper machine soul. nice and easy, and the minimalism makes the beats even more fluid rather than body contortionist.

 
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Does this count? One of my favourite Jungle tunes…not that I’m an expert. For me, the best jungle had a vertigo vibe. Shard of a sunray glimpsed off the corner of a building; feeling of falling out of an elevator at 30,000ft. Intrigued by that noise that kicks in at 0.11 – flashback to the gaseous noise at the start of “New Dawn Fades” by Joy Division. I remember @bunnyhausen playing this on Facebook Live on one of those gloriously sunny ‘Lockdown’ afternoons in May last year.


 
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martin said:
Does this count? One of my favourite Jungle tunes…not that I’m an expert. For me, the best jungle had a vertigo vibe. Shard of a sunray glimpsed off the corner of a building; feeling of falling out of an elevator at 30,000ft. Intrigued by that noise that kicks in at 0.11 – flashback to the gaseous noise at the start of “New Dawn Fades” by Joy Division. I remember @bunnyhausen playing this on Facebook Live on one of those gloriously sunny ‘Lockdown’ afternoons in May last year.


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no way, one of my favourites, crackin tune no question but that's peak time brockout. we're talking about the smoooooth sexy dances with a lady bittersweet 6 AM times. Appreciate that might not make sense to a frazzled punk like yerself.
 
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thirdform said:
no way, one of my favourites, crackin tune no question but that's peak time brockout. we're talking about the smoooooth sexy dances with a lady bittersweet 6 AM times. Appreciate that might not make sense to a frazzled punk like yerself.
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Well, THIS frazzled punk would dance with a lady at 6am to 'Sweet Vibrations'
storms out
 
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this has the needy vocal and the dreaminess - at first - but then gets ravey - plus the lyric is short and ambiguous (could be about a chemical craving)

 
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martin said:
Well, THIS frazzled punk would dance with a lady at 6am to 'Sweet Vibrations'
storms out
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Sure, I mean you could dance with a lady to gabba at 6 AM if you wanted. What we're talking about though is a sophisticated lineage that comes down from lovers rock nights and then flowers (in the UK) with 80s soul and later new jack swing. The slow jams of jungle, if you will.
 
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Sade being the semi-bastardisation of this sophistication, too artey, too divorced from the sweat of blues parties and warehouse rare groove nights, not enough champagne and jps.

Not to say that she wasn't huge in the US, because she absolutely was, but that gets into the complicated issue of many strands of hip hop being inspired by more of an arty background - especially in New York.
 
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Ive been lurking for over a decade now, but this is one of my favorite songs and I love this thread. While the vocals are just samples instead of the whole melody, the whole things works in a way that for me is romantic. The same way Art Of Noise's Moments in Love is romantic.


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This is definitely romantic, like Fleetwood Mac's 'Sara' or something
 
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My friend's radio show was her joining the dots between this sort of Lovers Rock/Smooth R&B Jungle, Happy Hardcore and Rave stuff that i thought worked quite nicely.

I found the absolute perfect example of this style on the flip of a 94/95 record, early Roots Manuva production, seems to be in a few different styles, but mostly Lovers Rock/UK Street Soul/Soca/Jungle, he does a verse at the end that just sounds like something he could have done on his first album.

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Will check this later. Hoping for lush ear candy, not sure if happy hardcore can go there, its always sounded more hyper to me.
 
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