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> their former audience from them.
_Technology_ does contain a small handful of brilliance. Stripped of the
link back to the earlier Virgin material, it would have been a stronger
release. I do not consider it to be part of their normal development, nor
do I believe it was intended to be. The reasons for its existence are a
mystery to me; perhaps some contractual obligation?
The element of their audience who would have been alienated by these
releases are those unable or unwilling to follow them into the new
territory they explored there, and thereafter. Some were actually
dismayed at the "commercial" sound of _The Crackdown_, certainly one of
the least commercial records ever to be accused of being a sell-out. The
development of their sound always seemed to me to progress logically from
their previous work. Their early sound prefigured the IDM/Bleep scene;
then they integrated these influences and continued to push the envelope
after a couple of hesitant steps near the start of the decade.