Electronica Jungle: High-Hat
In the late 1990s, I was in southern California where a radical new breakthrough genre in music --- electronica --- was blossoming.
One sub-category of this electrical instrument glorifying genre was jungle (a variation on drum-and-bass). I was a rather skillful jungle dancer, and I discovered that it was a representation and re-presentation of modern era electronics marketing savvy. Music began reflecting our new age scientific fascination with electronics wizardry (i.e., computer network circuits circuits). Jungle involves a highly-complex drum-beat set to the background of transcendental trance-inducing melodies, and it is meant to signify a motion appreciation of electric circuit analogous efficiency.
Since the Wachowski Brothers released the under-appreciated original electric circuit graffiti "The Matrix" (1999), music has changed.
Jungle is no longer a vibrant SoCal scene, however, I remember going to extraordinary parties in San Diego and Los Angeles (indoors and outdoors) and realizing these festival parties, called raves, were the new Woodstock.
I remember odd and symbolic jungle-invitational parties with colorful names such as "Audiotistic," "It," and "Wiggle."
Comic book stories also now feature unusual relevant electronics wizardry fascination avatars such as Video-Man (Marvel Comics), a mutant phantom with the ability to travel through electric wires and invade computing terminals and release devastating beams of electrical energy.
