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From:
Chris.Hilker
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Date:
Thu, 12 Jan 1995 16:27:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject:
Re: Is It Rap or Techno
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<199501130027.QAA01438@taz.hyperreal.com>
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quoted 4 lines at Blockbuster Music the other night I asked the 18 year-old-something>at Blockbuster Music the other night I asked the 18 year-old-something >clerk if they had anything by Future Sound of London, I must have said >the name 10 times. She was looking on the computer and she asked me >"is that rap".
Not too surprising, actually - there's an American rap group called the Future Sound ("The Bop Step" was the closest they got to a hit), so the clerk probably saw that group listed as a rap group and asked to find out if it might be a truncated listing. C. -- cspot@hyperreal.com (Chris.Hilker) ...electro-spiritual in composition...