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From:
Dave Walker
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I D M
Date:
Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:16:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:
Re: Electro
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On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Derek Corcoran wrote:
quoted 3 lines hell is all the fuss about. It's not new and personally I think it's crap.> hell is all the fuss about. It's not new and personally I think it's crap. > I would say that I'm fairly open-minded but I thought that music was > supposed to make you feel something which electro doesn't seem to,
Well, everyone's entitled to an opinion, of course. Personally, tracks like Air Liquide's "Robot Wars", Kraftwerk's "Numbers" and Red Planet's "Season Of The Solar Wind" remind me of what got me into electronic music in the first place. If anything, the fact that a discussion of contemporary electronic dance and listening music can encompass elements as disparate as Global Communication's "Ob-selon Mi Nos" and Drexciya's "Livin On the Edge" is a sign to me of its continuing vitality and movement. I was having a discussion with a friend earlier in the year, talking about the fact that electro was probably going to be hyped as much in the music press in 1995 as jungle was last year. He asked me: "so when do you think the backlash will start?" I answered: "oh, probably about April or so." -d.w.