depressing/sad jungle & dnb
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luka
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Sadness
Like any other self respecting adolescent I loved nothing more than wallowing in voluptuous melancholy. Nothing feels better. But at some point in my early 20s I decided that it was Unmanly and unbecoming, tawdry and self indulgent, and that I had to put a stop to it and ever since that door has...
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dilbert1
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@abodywithoutorgans yes, 'a sense of rage' hits the spot as well. timeless does have that sort of wounded aspect to it
dilbert1
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what do you think of the track i started this thread with? maybe 'jungle' is a stretch with that one, more like weird lo-fi dnb. but i think its depressing in content and good in form. i guess it's probably just playing using certain scales. like the bummer vibes of burial but w breakbeats
dilbert1
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for me 'melancholy' tends to bring to mind the definition of the word 'melancholy', i.e. a general mood of depressive, potentially wistful sadness with no explicit cause/particular reason. and the famous engraving by Dürer
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dilbert1
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i agree, the feeling can certainly be indulged in or submitted to. i also suffer from bouts of depressive contemplation. with listening to music that elicits those feelings, i like sticking to hardcore/jungle/dnb as its such open ended music, and i know these same tools can be used to express so many different vibes because of how hybrid the form is. but overly mopey singer songwriter shit is irresponsible to listen to and encourages bad behavior i think
linebaugh
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can we get some jungle tracks like these where the drums are more discrete?
version
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Any good? That's a nice edition. Gass intro too.
woops
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i had a good crack at the intro which is over 100 pages alone and mostly a discussion of democritus the "laughing philosopher". he goes in for long lists and length in general. didn't make me feel any more or less melancholy. you have to be up for reading that archaic style to get anywhere with it
dilbert1
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@Linebaugh i dig it as well! Still very breaky but not so dull and monotonous as dryer dnb beats. Again i’d recommend thugwidow’s most recent output, ive even seen people complaining the his productions in that style sound lazy or unfinished, but to me and considering the scales/sorts of sad melodies he’s using, it adds to the anemic, dwindling will-to-live vibe. Also the track i started the thread with has very easy going drums