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quoted 1 line All of which is moot, really - Bjork is as guilty of jumping >>on the

>>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. :) umm, excuse me if you have been foolowing richard kirk/cab-volt from the mid-80's until present, you'll notice that they've pretty much been on top or ahead of the contemporary electronic/dance trends. take a listen to "crackdown", or "diskono" or even the album plasticity which is pretty recent, but still very playable in all sorts of sets. youth didn't just jump from killing joke to the orb to doing his butterfly assosiated stuff either. you'll notice his name on early dance tracks from the mid to late 80's as well on a lot of industrial/techno type tracks w/ other people like evil eddie richards, simon boswell, tony (moody boys) thorpe, klf, etc.... he also did some nice ambient stuff w/ ben (electrotette) watkins in the mid/late 80's on illuminated that i spin quite of ten in ambient sets. i can't say i really ever liked early underworld, or the incredibly hideous doot-doot record before that, but i'm sure a lot of their current sound and success is due mostly to the enlistment of darren emerson who is a pretty influential UK dj/producer. ahhhh.. that feeling of letting off some steam...... david *+* on now - fried funk food-the real shit (norman cook does it again. boy is this an amazing release. buy this now)