![]() "One of my mates did try to play a Plug track in a club," says the Needless to say, the reaction from the junglist community has been muted, to put Warning: your limbs will get tied in knots if you're fool enough to dance. Grotesque convolution rivalled only by artcore maestros like Droppin' Science. The two Plug EP's so far-"Visible Craterįunk" and "Rebuilt Kev"-take breakbeat-science and bass-mutation to levels of Peculiar forays into drum & bass as Plug. Veered off into cheesy-but-deranged trip hop with "Throbbing Pouch" and itsĪttendant EP's "Rissalecki" and "Redone". The glacial ambience of his Wagon Christ 1994 debut "Phat Lab Nightmare", Vibert '95 as a major purveyor of barely classifiable, semi-danceable weird-shit. The forbidding intellect of Mille Plateaux.Ĭornwall born-and-bred and buddy of the Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert emerged in But even among the figures dealt with herein, the sonicĪnd emotional spectrum ranges vastly, from the irreverent humour of Wagon ChristĪnd playful Dada wit of Mouse On Mars, to the spirituality of Bedouin Ascent and Possibilities, Vol.1" and "Collaborations" compilations are good introductions to some of the key players in this field). Like Clear, Sahko, Staalplatt, Leaf and Lo Recordings (whose "Extreme Techno-Animal, Boymerang, Scanner, Seefeel/Disjecta, David Toop, Voafose, labels This new anti-category includes loads ofĪrtists and labels not covered in this article: artists like Mu-ziq, Where refugees, fleeing the shackles of genre and the expectations of scene, Perhaps it's now possible to speak of a new perimeter region where post-rockĪnd post-techno, post-jungle and post-trip hop, bleed into each other a zone Inspired breakbeat-tomfoolery of AFX's "Hangable Auto Bulb" EP. Richard James, for instance, responded with the Jungle has given techno a hefty and sorely needed kick up the arse, forcing it to Result, "intelligent techno was definitely rather anaemic on the rhythmic side",Īs Kingsuk Biswas of Bedouin Ascent puts it. With 'ardkore rave) and piety (too much reverent nostalgia for Detroit). Intelligent techno was always limited by purism (no breakbeats, associated Listening music" concept and "Artificial Intelligence" compilations? Well, Pushed from and at the hip by Warp Records in 1992/93 with its "electronic How is this new zone of music-making different from "armchair techno", as Sound-installations, and boggle at the sonic contraptions as they go about their All you can do is marvelĪt the bizarre audio-sculptures, let your ears wander through the Response that's appropriate is fascinated contemplation. It's art-tekno, in so far as the only listener Placate the needs of ravers or DJ's), but neither is it ambient (too restlessly This music is not particularly danceable (it makes no attempt to A genre-without-a-name is emerging, an omni-genre wherein techno succumbs toĪn influx of ideas from jungle, trip hop, all over, and gladly sacrifices its ![]()
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