On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, Chris.Hilker wrote:
quoted 3 lines All of which is moot, really - Bjork is as guilty of jumping on the techno> All of which is moot, really - Bjork is as guilty of jumping on the techno
> bandwagon as Underworld, Richard Kirk, Youth, and any number of other people
> that Greg wouldn't think of insulting for it. :)
(a) Underworld -- _dubnobasswithmyheadman_ in many ways could have been
recorded and released a decade earlier, if not for such factors as what a
major label would or would not release. These are two of the same folks
from Freur (distant, semi-arty synth-pop, c. 1982, CBS). Underworld
released two albums (possibly US only), on Sire I think. The records are
competent enough, but "sell-out" comes to mind. I strongly suspect they
are now doing what they were always aiming to do, and changes in fashion
have helped them along this path, likely artistically as well as
commercially.
(b) Richard H. Kirk -- I don't know how it is that an artist can jump on a
bandwagon, when he has been partly responsible for filling the fuel tank on
which the techno bandwagon runs, and has been doing so for the last 20
years. Check out a release like _The Living Legends_ (which collects
Cabaret Voltaire's singles -- A's & B's from '82 and earlier) and you will
find all the seeds are there.
(c) Youth -- After leaving Killing Joke in 1982, Youth has been involved
in several dance-related projects such as Brilliant. His work has been
far from consistently good in this arena IMO, but as for accusations of
jumping on the techno bandwagon, he has merely moved in the same direction
as the rest of the scene he has been involved with for some time already.