Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Routes and futures

 








Various Artists

Routes from the Jungle: Escape Velocity Volume 1

Melody Maker, 1995

by Simon Reynolds 




2 comments:

  1. Lived in London then and went straight down to Selectadisc to buy it the weekend after reading this review. What a superb compilation it still is and also loved the Kodwo Eshun sleevenotes. I do a pirate radio show twice a month here and if I’m ever stuck on deciding what to play I’ll delve my into Routes From The Jungle CD!

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  2. It is a great comp, the only thing that bugged me slightly is (if I remember correctly) there's no pause between tracks, they overlap slightly. At least I think that's the case. It was the same with the David Toop Ocean of Sound which was part of the same series as Routes.

    (A great series - Simon Hopkins I think was the man at Virgin behind them. A whole bunch of Toop comps, Kevin Martin's Isolationism and electric jazz comps, various others. A post-rock one that they didn't call Post-Rock, sneakily, nor invite me to do the sleevenotes and / or compile, bastards).

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