Interactive Guide to Electronic Music - MUST SEE

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Thats an awesome site, glad to see they have the old 70's industrial up there but NO CABARET VOLTAIRE!! Terrible, sheffield weeps

Whats a rave?

they are

Totally different to the Drum N Bass scene I used to be in - that's all full of attitude and been taken over by chavs. A lot of the lyrics are about gun culture.

No there not

I will YSI you some industrial if you want and you can compare

Rammstien are KMFDM Junior

Yeah, it's the ultimate earcandy IMO for anyone who likes both oldkool gangster rap, dark industial, really deep metal guitar (though its not in jungle), and likes some real dark & mysterious ish to listen to with some raggae murder dubs thrown in there. To a lot of other people though it sounds so alien (mostly on the basslines) that they start twitching out on you if they're in the car and you pop some in.

What on earth is KMFDM Junior?

I think one of my biggest pet peaves with peoples attitudes about electronic music is the fact that they naturally veer away from the stuff that really has soul and an icredible amount of intelligence (the dark, somber, and epic stuff that to me is transcendental in ways that any human instrument and vocal genre can rarely touch) and they complain that the funky cheese electronic disco lacks soul and character -its cheese, what do you expect?

Most of the other people I know as well who really like and feel this stuff the way I do feel the same way about the poppy stuff, the other stuff though it seems like you'll have people who really identify with it deep down in a way to where again, it's extremely transcendental. The other reaction is that someone hears something like they've never heard before in their lives and they start twitching out for about 10 seconds before asking you if you can put something else in (if it's in your car). Regardless though, good dark jungle illicits a response either way and even when it isn't recieved well I think it just comes off as too alien to some people's ears. Even with the techstep/darkcore/hardstep it's really only so well represented on that site - some good dancefloor jammers on there but none of the stuff that's loaded with the kind of emotion or depth that I'm talking about. Lack of exposure for most people to the stuff that does have soul or lack of open-mindedness to a type of energy they may have never felt before is what I really think closes people off to this genre though.

I remember many times when my friends would throw down some really good dark jungle sets, people would walk in, nod to it, look kinda slack-jawed like it was conceptually bouncing off of em, and that's usually the last you'd see of em for the night. It sucks that it works like that but I guess it's that fear of the unknown that really digs at people a lot of times.