Various Artists
Logical Progression Level 2
[Good Looking/FFRR]
Rating: 8.0
If you're like I am, you dig a good drum-n-bass compilation from
time to time, or perhaps, every day. But few stand out from the
hundreds of thousands like those of Good Looking/ Looking Good
Records' Logical Progression albums.
Good Looking has, since the early 1990s, been at the forefront of
drum-n-bass and jungle music, and has been essential in molding
the genres into their current forms; Logical Progression Level
2 is out to wipe any remaining doubt of that off the face of
the Earth. This two- disc set is a ferocious collection of dancable
tracks from the likes of Source Direct, Odyssey, and label- head LTJ Bukem.
The first disc is a intense blast of high- energy numbers mixed
up by one of Good Looking's most critically- acclaimed artists,
Blame, and vocal tracks are laid down by MCs Conrad and DRS.
Disc Two is unmixed numbers like PFM's acidic "Love and Happiness"
and Intense's "Dark Skies," a digital hurricane of rapid breakbeats
and psychic transmissions.
Granted, this is only a taste of what this label is capable of. If
you're not convinced by this stuff, check out the original Logical
Progression compilation, which also featured numbers by Peshay and
Photek.
-Ryan Schreiber