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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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695 points atan2 | 3 comments | 13 Nov 24 18:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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gustavopezzi ◴[13 Nov 24 20:00 UTC] No.42129339[source]▶
Author here. Thanks for sharing the blog post on HN; it was a nice surprise to see it in the first page.
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samatman ◴[13 Nov 24 23:40 UTC] No.42131458[source]▶
You have gotten the history here dead wrong:

> The techno scene originated in Germany, reached the UK, and it was later associated with the Chicago & Detroit EDM scene in America.

Techno was invented in Detroit, house music in Chicago. Germany like techno. In no sense whatsoever did they invent or originate it.

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1. evanelias ◴[14 Nov 24 00:58 UTC] No.42132002[source]▶
I'd argue the article gets the history of jungle itself quite wrong too... there's no mention of breakbeat hardcore, no mention of Shut Up and Dance collaborating with Ragga Twins, etc.

Fabio and Grooverider are seminal figures to the scene, yes, but they did not originate the sound.

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2. pacaro ◴[14 Nov 24 04:43 UTC] No.42133225[source]▶
The sidebar about pirate radio, while factually correct, seems to heavily imply that pirate radio started in the jungle era, but Radio Caroline was broadcasting in the 60s
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3. gustavopezzi ◴[14 Nov 24 13:50 UTC] No.42136115[source]▶
Hi there. That was probably just a small mistake on how I tried to explain the paragraph or the poor choice of words/terms I used. Thanks for the heads up.