Word: cyberpunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into music to do it myself without the oppressive thumb of convention," says Idol, who released a Macintosh floppy disk with his album Cyberpunk. Yet for years Idol was "trapped in recording studios with my band trying to get the music right -- playing, arranging, figuring it all out -- while the money clock ticked away." Then he found a technology that allowed him to create a "virtual studio" in his home. "I was excited. It was 'live' to the computer...
TIME has chronicled every aspect of the computer age, of course, from the vacuum-tube machines that filled entire rooms in the early 1950s to the cyberpunks we featured in a cover story earlier this year. Written by associate editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who helped design our new service and will also help run it, the cyberpunk article provoked furious comment from an interactive network that we invited to review the piece, and showed the potential for online response...
...album with the greatest emotional depth. Gone are the rousing anthems and raw energy of their early albums ("Pride," "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"), the spiritual ballads of "The Joshua Tree" and the dance rhythms of their 1991 LP, "Achtung Baby." "Zooropa" is the raw emotional waste of the new cyberpunk world of the '90s--humans lost in the mechanical morass of technology...
...Magazine, for example, sung in an arid yet passionate rasp, Edwards muses on how literary works have been replaced on people's bookshelves by visually slick magazines featuring everything "from the absurd to the obscene." The haunting, slow-tempo Yellow Brown recalls the cyberpunk film Blade Runner; synthesizer bass notes drip like fat raindrops, and the sounds of droning machinery resonate. Edwards laments ecological destruction caused by technology: "In the city air, in all our seas, you can see every other color bleed into/ Yellow brown. There's nothing to save us from ourselves...
Though barely of drinking age, Rosenfeld is a veteran hacker. He says he invaded his first computer -- a low-level NASA system -- at age 15 as a member of a cyberpunk gang called Force Hackers. Before long, he was devising electronic schemes to swipe cash from Western Union, phone service from the Baby Bells and valuable credit information wherever it could be found. "We once pulled the credit reports of a whole town in Oregon," Storm Shadow recalls...