Which Era of Dance Music Are You? · Result

Hardcore and Jungle, 1992 to 1994

Faster, heavier, and onto the next thing in six weeks. Good.

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You have an unusual tolerance for pace and for things being unfinished, and you are more interested in what something can become than in what it was. Jungle came out of British rave speeding up until it came apart: breakbeats cut to pieces, sub bass from sound system culture underneath, and about six seconds of drumming from a 1969 B side by the Winstons, chopped until it stopped sounding like a drummer. You hear that kind of potential everywhere.

You tend to go where the system can take real weight and the selection moves fast, and you are happy to stand right by the bass bins. You like tracks nobody can buy yet, sets that change direction every few minutes and floors full of people who came to move. People like you are usually the first to hear where a new sound is heading, and the first to tell everyone else about it.

Your strength

You hear what a thing could become while others hear noise.

Your blind spot

Moving this fast can burn through material and sometimes people, and fast scenes forget their own first year.

Key takeaways

  • You hear what a thing could become before anyone else does.
  • Stay a little longer once something starts to work.
  • Fast scenes forget their own first year. Help yours remember.

Rooms to try in Seoul

  • Cakeshop, Itaewon: The Seoul room that has booked bass music since it opened, with a system that takes sub weight with ease.
  • Soap, Itaewon: A newer basement that books fast and broken rhythms as readily as house, to a floor that is happy to follow.

Rooms to try around the world

  • fabric, London: Its Friday night has carried drum and bass and its relatives for over two decades, on a floor built for the low end.
  • Toronto, a drum and bass night, Toronto: The city has kept at least one jungle night running since the mid 1990s, longer than most of the original London ones lasted.
  • Sub Club, Glasgow: A basement that lets a track rule the room for a month before anyone can buy it, which is how dubplate culture works.

Your nearest types

Chicago House, 1984 to 1987Simple machines, no permission, records out in two weeks.Amapiano and Afro House, 2019 to nowSlow, wide and patient, and everywhere before anyone noticed it travel.

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