More press sightings of IDM stuff: the last issue of Entertainment Weekly had
a few tidbits related to IDM. For those who don't get this mag where they
reside, it's a weekly that's pretty much a more frequently published Rolling
Stone with fewer intellectual pretensions (i.e. no lengthy columns on
politics) and more tabloid elements (i.e. Read About the Worst Hair of 97 kind
of things).
- Bowie interview where he talks about how jungle is really exciting, or
something like that.
- Review of U2 and Prodigy music videos/singles. The reviewers kinda like the
U2 song for being adventurous about meshing styles, but ultimately they dis it
for making a lump of two jarring styles that don't gel together. Something
about how electronic music is not about vocals and guitar solos, both of which
"Discotheque" had. They however *love* the Prodigy, and actually make the
singer sound like the salvation of electronic music as far as America goes,
because he *finally* gives this genre a face, a bold image for the masses to
hold on to.
- Review of Aphex Twin album, quite favorable really.
On now: Daft Punk - *very* nice.
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the "Star Wars" prequels