Here's something I got from the E-mail zine they keep sending me for
some reason. Ho hum. Prodigy may be #1 and the fastest selling album in
the history which, however, won't change the fact that "Fat Of The Land"
is full of derivative, uninnovative crap, and 1997 may go down to the history
as the year of "The Great Electronica Hoax". But don't worry, in two years
it will be all over, everyone wants to go "back to the roots" again, and
start making unplugged country records with "real instruments" and "honest,
down-to-earth feeling".
----- Forwarded message from SCRATCH magazine -----
From: SCRATCH magazine <info@outersound.com>
Subject: SCRATCH magazine: July 15, 1997
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SCRATCH magazine
Volume I, Issue 3
July 15, 1997
Scratch on the Web =
http://www.outersound.com/scratch
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PRODIGY'S SONS . . . #1 debut could open door for new crop of electronica stars
Vying for the top spot on Billboard's Album Charts this week are the Spice
Girls and . . . Prodigy? Yes, popularity for the British techno-crats has
finally made the Atlantic Crossing, and the success of _Fat of the Land_ may
clear a path for other U.K. and homegrown electronic acts. Perhaps most
importantly, Prodigy's sudden rise to the pinnacle of the American musical
mainstream could singlehandedly unravel claims by industry skeptics who say
the burgeoning electronica genre just can't sell enough records. "Inevitably
the people who, I think, are buying it . . . have had enough of the music
that's been going around for the last few years in the States," Mute Records
President Daniel Miller, who signed Prodigy after Elektra dropped the act,
told Reuters. "They really want something new, something to create their own
identity, their own lifestyle, with their own parties. They're sick of their older brothers' and sisters' records. They want something new."
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transmission from the pHinnWeb Bunker over,
ekku aka nemo
the maintainer of pHinnWeb - the old skool, the nu skool and the pHuture skool
of Finnish electronic music
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and i like it somehow
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