Word: disco
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...crowd. This is, after all, the stuff that won them love when they were still underground. Felix's love for latin fusion, jazz rock and New York house were all there, slapped with Simon Face of Stone's sleight-of-hand technical leaning and wedged in everywhere with disco, ragga, R&B, Chicago house, techno, jungle, flamenco, breakbeat, punk, garage and all their lovely bastard crossbreeds. It was a musical food fight at an all-you-can-eat: felt beats and loud bass pelted the idolating house fiends sore and silly...
...then, he was already learning valuable lessons from his mother. By example, she taught him how to find and exploit zones of privacy, how to build an invisible barrier around himself when in public. It was a technique he might apply at the Xenon disco, where he hung out in the late '70s: first, use personal radar to sense the approach of a stranger, then move subtly until your back is turned to the person--a way of saying "Please, leave me alone, please." But if someone breached the barrier anyway, John would then be unfailingly polite, using the Kennedy...
...Hand in hand with the Electronic Renaissance is the way to go, you're learning, soon you will do the things you wanted since you were wearing glitter badges." The chorus sounds a critique of both musical and artistic minimalism, cold and synthetic: "Monochrome in the 1990s, you go disco and I'll go my way." Yet with Murdoch born in 1968, David in '69 and other members with birth dates scattered through the early '70s, one wonders whether both Belle and Sebastian were dreaming of glitter badges growing...
...occasional bridge needs to go up in flames, if only for form's sake. But we seem to be embracing the opportunities for closure a little too heartily these days. The past is and always will be with you-didn't anyone else see "The Last Days of Disco?" Don't cut so many social threads this Thursday, and instead let them run through your personal tapestry even after you've moved out. The less final you leave your past, the fuller you can make your present...
Estefan, 45, was the first to envision the fusion of Latin and disco music with English lyrics--or, as he likes to call it, "a cross between rice, beans and hamburger"--that came to be known as the Miami Sound. Undeterred by industry executives who said, "Dump the timbales" or "It will never sell," the Cuban immigrant put together a local band called the Miami Sound Machine in the early '80s. The lead singer was his then girlfriend Gloria. The group's 1985 smash hit Conga transformed Gloria Estefan into the first Latin female crossover superstar...