• GluWu@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Great music and a innovative piece of history that set us on the course to crab rave.

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    1 month ago

    I think a lot of people don’t realise just how much this utterly shifted the British music scene

    Ok there was electronic music before it and after it, but this was Sex Pistols level of ground-breaking at the time

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      1 month ago

      It was the first prodigy album I heard as a kid and it changed my perception of electronic music

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    1 month ago

    Great album. Bought my copy a long time ago. It’s the kind of music I sometimes go for when, of all things, cooking.

    Great beats, strong lyrics, a well balanced album overall.

  • nfms@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Great album, one of my favourites.
    Where I’m from Narayan was a summer hit in the dance clubs when it came out, although my friends and I were more into Firestarter and Breathe. I venture saying that it helped bridge punk and dance in a big way.

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Fantastic album, like others have said, it was on heavy rotation in my teens, sounds track to manyblate night gane sessions.

    “Smack my Bitch Up” being a hugely popular and influential song, is also part of a long running lost media hunt for me. In the late 00’s there was a youtube video made by a 3d animator as a demo reel. It was an extended anime fight between a yellow and black sentai/robot and a bunch of other robots. SMBU was the soundtrack to the video of course, lots of bits were synced to it.

    That was back in the glorious pre-copyright-bot times, and since it was a demo for an unreleased project using a hugely popular song by someone who’s name I’ve long forgotten, I can’t find it! Probably scrubbed off the net by now, the creator moved on to being a cog in the Marvel movie machine.

  • don@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Certified iridium banger for a reason, without question. My favorite track, voodoo people (pendulum mix) isn’t on this, but I still sing the chant from Narayan. Just as influential as most of the early works of Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, the Bassbin Twins, the Crystal Method, Fluke, and so many others. The remix album of this is still just as devastating.

    Once you heard pretty much any one of these tracks, you knew this was, and probably always would be, the sound for you.

  • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It was both trendy in terms of sound and packaging/styling, but the whole album was mixed with such mastery that it was one of the best sounding package I’ve heard until perhaps the mid 2010s. That on its own is incredible, especially in a technologically driven genre.