Music's Hypnotising · PFM/Raw Silk/Psychotropic/DJ Massive/4hero

Hypnotizing - PFM [1995]

I've been playing these jungle/dnb tunes to test out the capacity of these new speakers I got. Having proper bass in my ears seems so deluxe and extravagant in this day and age of not having great quality or beautiful things anymore from cars to shoes to clothes to music to movies to journalism to all the ugly new houses, streets, towns and suburbs and the ugly fuckin' wind/solar farms. Ugly lack of style and quality disguised as refinement. It's just cheap, low expectations, demoralising. Everything has had its bar lowered due to the bottom line and is just not as good as it should and used to be. The demise is here and no-one's even trying to elevate to a higher level. It's like they can't even imagine it so it's just pound shop world. So these speakers which aren't even high end posh have given me some respite amongst the infinite greyness.

Here's another track and I know it's just not hardcore anymore and the jungle is heading into the dnb but the luxurious atmosphere here is undeniably soothing & sweet along with the awesome deep sub bass and good choppage. 

The "Music's Hypnotising" vocal sample was so ubiquitous by this stage it was a cliche in dance tunes, having already been used in many a house, freestyle, garage, bleep and breakbeat hardcore classic from the ultra underground to the chart-busting mainstream. Actually I think it had already been used in a jungle/dnb, maybe 4Hero, tune so PFM wasn't even the first to use it in this new paradigm.

Raw Silk - Do It To The Music (1982)

Speaking of luxurious, this is where the vocal snippet "Music's Hypnotising" comes from. An impeccable slice of early 80s funky post-disco. Peak boogie. 

Psychotropic - Only For The Headstrong (1990) 

The best use of the Raw Silk Music's Hypnotising sample in my book. Is it house, bleep or early hardcore or an intersection thereof. This is something else whatever it is. Dreamy, hypnotic yet real rough, barely functioning. Absolutely fascinating artefact. Hang on! Somebody in the comments on discogs nails it: Tranquil Hardcore.

DJ Massive - Hypnotiser (For The Ladies) (1993)

More music's hypnotising samples. The hardcore rave aesthetic going into 93 seems a bit late but the insanity here is infectious. Sirens, crazy beats, bleeps, some kind of chicken dance and check out that deep torpedoing sub bass. 

4hero - People Always Criticise Us (1994)

Ok this has become way too trainspotter-y! So actually 4Hero sample the line before Music's Hypnotising where it apparently says No time for criticising but it's in the same melody as Hypnotising in this remarkable state of the art tune where nothing seems to actually happen. I guess an ambient stillness is achieved. A blank feeling in the air.