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...Each year, Meltdown invites a musical luminary - Laurie Anderson, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, David Bowie - to devise a series of challenging concerts and musical collaborations. Now that it's Perry's turn, he gets to send party invites to old friends and other artists he's only heard on CD...
...reggae back to its basics, Perry piles on layers of vocals and effects Black Ark Experryments (1995) Perry raps mayhem and madness (Poop Song?) into the electro-dub mixing of London's Mad Professor, his touring partner and friend of the past few years Arkology (1997) A superb, three-CD review of Perry's Black Ark output in the '70's: A-grade classics, dub versions and outtakes of his own band the Upsetters, the Heptones, Junior Murvin, the Congoes, Max Romeo ? Jamaican E.T. (2002) Triple-tracked vocals from outer space and derided as "gibberish" by the few critics...
...digital cameras. Jean-Philippe Dauvin, chief economist at STMicroelectronics, says that from the mid-'90s until the end of last year, a typical European car like the VW Golf contained semiconductors worth around $70, but this year's models contain $220 worth of chips to control everything from CD player and power steering to upscale collision control systems...
Your critic Josh Tyrangiel speculated that the sad mood of Madonna's new CD American Life might be due to family problems [MUSIC, April 28]. As someone who has lived abroad as Madonna has, I propose that she is reflecting on American culture from the perspective of living overseas. Perhaps the album's lyrics describe Madonna's attempts to understand American culture and how it has shaped her life. Exploring American life is a profound experience. I don't feel sad for Madonna; I'm glad that she can take advantage of this opportunity. MELISSA LEONE Dallas...
...that otherwise honest folks blithely steal music? For me, it started with Napster. I was desperate to hear an old Loudon Wainwright III tune that hadn't yet been rereleased on CD. I found it one day online--someone had converted the entire record into MP3s and kindly uploaded the songs. I downloaded the tune and then helped myself to a rare Duane Allman rendition of Please Be with Me. I had begun my descent into hell, or wherever it is that music pilferers go at the Final Download. I'd have been thrilled to pay for them, I rationalized...