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Massive.
organs had mostly disappeared from junglistic hardcore by 93 (thankfully) but yes.
unless we're counting happy hardcore, which I am not. the brexit equivalent of rave. oh no too many rudeboys, let's destroy all our braincells by dedicating nights exclusively geared to the euphoric pleasure principle.
No wonder so many of the old happy heads on onlyoldskool etc became edl cunts. When you don't calibrate euphoria with the darkness, it sends you suicidal.
unless we're counting happy hardcore, which I am not. the brexit equivalent of rave. oh no too many rudeboys, let's destroy all our braincells by dedicating nights exclusively geared to the euphoric pleasure principle.
No wonder so many of the old happy heads on onlyoldskool etc became edl cunts. When you don't calibrate euphoria with the darkness, it sends you suicidal.
mvuent
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for a while i was obsessed with the two body snatch releases from 93. was curious what he'd done after the great "eyes on the horizon" and they lived up to my hopes.
this was the one i listened to the most. almost symphonic in the way it cycles through different sections and variations on previous sections. a few strange moments where momentum stalls for a measure or two, heightening the impact when the next theme triumphantly surges forward. "we still have today!"
this one, from the other release, is antithetical in feel. idea changes far less pronounced. not dynamic but locked in. trapped in its trajectory, hurtling (or sinking) towards a dark place. if "the strength" and its remixes are rallying cries, "the pleasure" is their antithesis - the pit. poignant samples, too: the hollow solipsistic utterance "the pleasure is mine" and the deep, inarticulate yearning sign of "i wish..."
the other two tracks are likewise really weird and good. a more tranquil sense of strength...
and an earlier stage of the drugged out gloom of "the pleasure" - already locked in but paranoid, plagued by peripheral hallucinations, rather than lonely and resigned.
the way these releases reinforce each other through contrast goes with @thirdform's point about euphoria and darkness.
this was the one i listened to the most. almost symphonic in the way it cycles through different sections and variations on previous sections. a few strange moments where momentum stalls for a measure or two, heightening the impact when the next theme triumphantly surges forward. "we still have today!"
this one, from the other release, is antithetical in feel. idea changes far less pronounced. not dynamic but locked in. trapped in its trajectory, hurtling (or sinking) towards a dark place. if "the strength" and its remixes are rallying cries, "the pleasure" is their antithesis - the pit. poignant samples, too: the hollow solipsistic utterance "the pleasure is mine" and the deep, inarticulate yearning sign of "i wish..."
the other two tracks are likewise really weird and good. a more tranquil sense of strength...
and an earlier stage of the drugged out gloom of "the pleasure" - already locked in but paranoid, plagued by peripheral hallucinations, rather than lonely and resigned.
the way these releases reinforce each other through contrast goes with @thirdform's point about euphoria and darkness.
Benny Bunter
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