Section 5 · 5 plates
The Genres
Acid, braindance, jungle and the subgenres adjacent — what they actually were, sonically and structurally.
Plate 5.00 — Acid House What The Bassline Is Doing. Photo: Pixabay / Pexels
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Plate 5.01
What the Bassline Is Doing
The instrument as arrangement
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Plate 5.02
Braindance as a Working Description
A genre name born from a catalogue label, not a scene — and useful only if you know what it does and does not mean.
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Plate 5.03
The Breakbeat Under the Jungle Track
Jungle's defining rhythmic texture is not a programmed beat — it is a looped drum recording sliced, transposed and rebuilt at speeds that shouldn't work.
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Plate 5.04
Where Ambient Techno Parted from Techno
The split was not philosophical. It was a decision about the kick drum.
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Plate 5.05
Genre Names the Labels Never Used
The words on the sleeve were rarely the ones in the magazine.
Plate 00 · Elsewhere