quoted 6 lines << 'd just like to say that I have total and complete hatred for the above> << 'd just like to say that I have total and complete hatred for the above
> artists. I find Underworld plain annoying >>
>
> Why is so much shit talked about 'commercial' or even (god help us)
> 'unintelligent' techno. I'm not referring entirely to this post, but to
> general comments slagging the likes of Fatboy Slim.
My number one guilty pleasure of the year, an acquired taste from a
roommate who loves Germany and MP3s: the most virulently, shamelessly pop
1-2-3-4 Euro-techno, the kind that's just making its way into our less
fine establishments here in the States. Not Fatboy and Co., who I still
don't have much use for, but rather this year's updates of the (Band) Real
McCoy.
The Vengaboys--it never ceases to amuse when when I hear two fratboys
fighting over how many "Booms" there are ("Boom-Boom=Boom, I want you in
my room." "You're blatantly wrong! Sharon said it was 4!
Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom!") and singin along to themselves; that "Blue" song;
even Mellow Trax's "Lost in Space," the closest I've heard
nearly-wordless techno get to fascism (but God, as my friend says, "They
understand the human psyche so well": the build-ups are perfect).
On one level, this shit is awful (Is this Ibiza music? I've always been
scared away by the compilations), fucking terrible pap. But it's so
perfectly crafted for dancefloor nutsiness--the same chord progressions,
the same beat, the same build-ups, a new filter or tweak--that I've found
it hard to resist. Plus, that "Blue Corvette" line is priceless (or,
cheap and tawdry).
Just an a sociological level: for you Europeans, does this stuff get spun
alongside Fatboy, or is it even more top-40 oriented? Oakenfeld music?
Ibiza music?
And how is the VengaBoys album anyhow? I'll never buy it, I swear!
It reminds me of lots of bad Sweet 16s. Now I can look back and realize
that all those speed rap/fem vox high-NRG combos I so despised have
something to offer. Sorta.
Sam
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