Yeah you really hear Detroits influence on projects like Jacob's Optical Stairway, and Inner City Life.
Regarding Fred's comments. In 1992 break beat "hardcore" (pre- drum n' bass) was huge with the American rave scene (especially on the West Coast) with groups like the Prodigy enjoying much success, (remember The Movement from L.A?) there would be a resurgence in the sound with drum n bass around the mid 90's. Back in the early 90's break beat tracks like "Charley" were actually called jungle. I remember buying early UK break beat like The Scientist The Bee as far back as 1990 although I never really followed the sound with exceptions like Alter 8 Frequency and the ocassional technoid break beat track like Blapps Posse and the ones by Micky Finn. When progressive house started to dominate the American scene around 1993 thats when I started to see a disassociation with the old Detroit techno, Chicago house sound which was influential on late 80's early 90's techno. This is one of the main reasons techno is so unpopular in the US today. ===== Adonis vrs. Panansonic (Vakio Blast First) http://pages.prodigy.net/stevepwats/adonis-panasonic.mp3
