The document discusses four drum and bass albums. Albums 1 and 2 feature realistic images as backgrounds while albums 3 and 4 have more sci-fi and futuristic themes. This suggests the music on albums 3 and 4 is more technical with fewer vocals, implying the music is more advanced. The second paragraph analyzes a digipak cover combining reality and futuristic elements, consistent with the genre. It uses the artist's star image to sell products and features cascading letters emphasizing the sci-fi feel. Flipping the color scheme from the original indicates the album is a bit different.

1. Drum and Bass

2. Theses artists produce music similar to my genre yet their albums all have different aspects.
However the text on all of them follow a general trend of being generic fonts and written in
block capitals. Albums 1 and 2 have realistic images as their backgrounds, where as albums 3
and 4 follow a more sci-fi and futuristic theme for their backgrounds. This could suggest that
their music is more technical with less vocals as if to say that their music is more advanced in
relation to the sound of it.
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3. This digipak combines both reality (with the pictures of David) and the futuristic elements (shiny and pearlescent
background). These are both conventions with artists of this genre or ones similar. He also uses his star image as
one of the most recognised DJ’s across the globe to sell his products. The interesting thing about this design is the
random array of letters which seem to be cascading down the cover, in a matrix esque fashion, emphasising the sci-
fi feel of the digipak. The cover also suggests that he is ‘the beat’ as there is nothing else on the cover – referring to
the title. The technique of using the same colour as the original edition of the album (Red) tells fans that the album is
just a little bit different, represented by flipping colour schemes. Also the use of benday dots and geometric shapes
throughout the digipak add to the random, modern theme that doesn’t follow a pattern.