As a longtime fan of oldschool hardcore/rave/jungle/drum & bass etc and appreciator of ambient, leftfield electronica also. I stumbled accross 'The Death Of Rave' series a while back and downloaded part one. I have to say that I enjoyed the experimentation with drone-like noise combined with muffled pirate radio/live rave recordings. It conjured up the feeling of standing outside a nightclub back in 1992 and straining your ears in an attempt to catch snippets of music amongst a din of static.
I never managed to pick up any of the later releases due to the website disappearing, so many, many thanks for offering them here.
Thank you very much for this —- I haven't listened yet, but it sounds wonderful! (A bit of conceptual overlap with Zomby's 'Where were you in '92', but the scale and your description have certainly whetted my appetite!
Thanks also for the Dillon 9 Rivers — and so much more!
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@breakbeatscientist You're very welcome – thanks for the kind words!
As a longtime fan of oldschool hardcore/rave/jungle/drum & bass etc and appreciator of ambient, leftfield electronica also. I stumbled accross 'The Death Of Rave' series a while back and downloaded part one. I have to say that I enjoyed the experimentation with drone-like noise combined with muffled pirate radio/live rave recordings. It conjured up the feeling of standing outside a nightclub back in 1992 and straining your ears in an attempt to catch snippets of music amongst a din of static.
I never managed to pick up any of the later releases due to the website disappearing, so many, many thanks for offering them here.
Thank you very much for uploading this. I didn't get the chance to get it when V/vm test was still online.
Thank you very much for this —- I haven't listened yet, but it sounds wonderful! (A bit of conceptual overlap with Zomby's 'Where were you in '92', but the scale and your description have certainly whetted my appetite!
Thanks also for the Dillon 9 Rivers — and so much more!
[…] echoes, consolidated the following year in his gigantic project The Death of Rave (about which i’ve written previously), a 19-hour “audio soup of half remembered rave anthems” that through its seemingly […]
[…] years ago, in a series of articles about ‘Contemporary Epics’, i wrote about The Death of Rave, Leyland Kirby‘s gargantuan paean to the world of rave culture. Originally released in 2006 […]