Word: disco
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...usually starts with a bumped shoulder or a stomped-on foot amid the thick smoke and boozy haze of a Bangkok disco. Then comes the chilling glare and the sudden appearance of men in black safari suits?often moonlighting cops or soldiers. But the sure sign there is about to be trouble?a merciless beating, a pistol-whipping or a shooting?is when the offended party with a chest full of gold chains asks: "Do you know who my father...
...Along the strip of hostess bars, cavernous discos and massage palaces of Bangkok's Ratchadapisek Road, the Yubamrung brothers are the most infamous of the brawling brats of the Thai Elite. During the past five years, Arthan, 30, Wanchalerm, 25, and Duangchalerm have been involved in at least a dozen bar fights and shootings. Yet, until Wanchalerm's arrest last week as an accessory to the murder, they had never spent a day in jail. "They're the most notorious, but they're by no means unique," says Andrew Hiransomboon, a nightlife columnist for the Bangkok Post. Other infamous scions...
...then there's Microsoft's X-Box, Nintendo's Game Cube, Apple's iPod, and (according to the Wall Street Journal, anyway) disco-era throwback Shrinky Dinks, which sentimental boomers are apparently trying to pass on to their kids. And there's always this year's batch of "must-own" DVDs of didn't-need-to-see movies, the kind of stocking stuffer that tends to pile up in shoppers' hands (and on their credit-card bills). Maybe all retailers will need this Christmas is a few hot "magnet" items (sufficiently stocked) to get shoppers into the stores...
...mixed together. Without something to latch onto—a hook, a chorus, a person—-dance music simply exists, providing nothing other than its own pulse. Hordes of indignant listeners and curmudgeonly rock critics have rallied against the apparent coldness and artificiality of disco, as well as sonic offspring like house, techno, and breakbeat. Yet dance music has always had a unique, innate “soul” of its own. The humanity, or relevance, that it’s often accused of lacking is not so much expressed in lyrics or notes, but instead lies...
...smooth that it’s impossible to tell when songs start and end; at first a woman announces that “Since I left you / I’ve found the world so new;” five tracks later we end up in the disco, where a ragga emcee is mashing it up with De La Soul in “Flight Tonight.” Still later, an innocent cruise arrives at a deranged world of psychotic schoolchildren, cowboys and Indians and talking parrots, in the turntablist cut-up anthem “Frontier Psychiatrist...