''Logical Progression'' (also known as ''LTJ Bukem Presents Logical Progression'') is a compilation album spearheaded by the English musician and label head
LTJ Bukem
Daniel Williamson (born 20 September 1967), better known as LTJ Bukem (), is a British drum and bass musician, producer and DJ. He and his record label Good Looking are most associated with the jazzy, atmospheric side of drum and bass music.
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, released in 1996. It includes tracks by Bukem and artists who recorded for his label,
Good Looking Records
Good Looking Records is a jungle and drum & bass record label, formed in 1991 by producer LTJ Bukem. The label specializes in jazz-influenced and atmospheric, so-called Intelligent Drum & Bass.
Overview
The label releases music which includes ...
, as well as his remixes.
The compilation was a commercial success. ''
(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide'' called it "a landmark drum-and-bass album," and, along with
Goldie
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's ''
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'', "perhaps one of the two most important drum-and-bass releases of the decade."
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Bukem promoted the album in the United States by playing the Enit Festival.][
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Critical reception
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, writing in ''Spin
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'', called the compilation "the most rhythmically rich drum'n'bass compilation I've heard, whir-whizz shimmer that's less reggae than other jungle, an uncut slice of British trendiness." ''Rolling Stone
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'' wrote: "While Bukem's dense tunes fare slightly better than the anesthetized soundscapes that fill most of ''Logical Progression'', it is tracks like Photek's spooky, claustrophobic 'Pharoah' (which sounds like 'Riders on the Storm' meets 'Cold Sweat' at high speed) and Aquarius and Tayla's oceanic 'Bringing Me Down' that provide the real sustenance."
''Newsday
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'' determined that "Bukem's songs 'Demon's Theme', 'Music' and 'Horizons' are like signature tunes from another galaxy, but his mix CD, replete with surface noise from the original vinyl, is doomed to attract that most damning of indictments from the uninitiated: that it all sounds the same." The ''Chicago Tribune
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'' concluded that Bukem "charts new territory by orchestrating a psychedelic urban symphony incorporating trance's slow Middle Eastern tonalities, jungle's industrialized West Indian drum roll and a lyrically experimental hip-hop."[ '']The Independent
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'' deemed the album a "spring-heeled, summer's-coming drum'n'bass selection."AllMusic
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wrote that "the house influences and steady rhythms make ''Logical Progression'' perhaps the best introduction to jungle for those not used to hyper-speed breakbeats."[
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Track listing
References
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1996 compilation albums