Word: delayer
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Even when Vladislav Delay was known for his obtuse abstractions on the Mille Plateaux label rather than his dancefloor-tinged output as Luomo, the influence of techno and house rhythms on his productions was clear. It was his debut Luomo album, Vocalcity, which perfected the marriage of experimentation and functionality, becoming an icon of the nascent subgenre known as “microhouse.” Tracks like “Tessio” and “Class” were radically insular for house music. Instead of satisfying that genre’s anthemic impulse, they called attention...
...between “funk” and “meaning,” Luomo creates a limbo between the two which hadn’t really existed before in club music. Perhaps that tension is what makes his tracks so strangely alluring to both critics and fans. Delay is exuberant about the prevalence of vocals in his music, pointing out that they’re an easy way of making tracks more “human and soulful sounding...
...leavens this detailed history with dry asides. After ticking off two decades of techniques used to delay action on climate change--question the science, claim that the problem lies far off in the future and then switch to saying it's too late to do anything--he drolly notes, "The Bush Administration moved through this string of evasions in half a presidential term...
...last week that one of the missile shield's key satellite systems will cost more and take longer to get into orbit than planned. A day later, 49 retired U.S. military generals and admirals, including William Crowe, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged President Bush to delay building the system until the bugs are worked out. Among other things, no one knows whether the system will work at night or in bad weather...
...plan to launch a space shuttle and the weather is not fine, you can easily delay it a day or two ... For the Games, this is not possible." JACQUES ROGGE, president of the International Olympic Committee, stressing that Athens must finish its preparations for the 2004 Olympic Games on time. Only 15 of 35 venues are ready, and a planned roof for the main swimming pool has been canceled...