Pioneering jungle in Germany well before it became fashionable, Empire is annoyed by the way it has changed, comparing its absorption into the corporate structure to the corporatising of American hip hop in the late 80s. The precision of the production techniques employed by British junglists even those at the darker end of the spectrum is too exact for Empire, denying the natural imperfections of noise. Marketable because of this precision, it fills the needs of people to fetishise the production process or particular novel sounds. Even his German contemporaries such as Panacea, Goner and the rest of the Position Chrome crew whose take on jungle is distorted and dark fail to impress Empire. Panacea promises me a demo of some more experimental stuff he wants to release of DHR . . .
Rave is boring, rave is dead.
The rave scene has even disowned it's drugs. In the final analysis, rave has not created a transformation in society which now produces Madonna and everything with 909 bass drums. Yellow Peril May 1998.