Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fashion press, it was a typical week in Milan, with clamoring crowds, blazing lights and thumping disco music. Photographers argued and jostled for position. Police tried to arrest most of the 60 American models for working without proper papers; one mannequin hurdled a fence, and many others fled, returning the next day with temporary permits. Meanwhile there was a dizzying parade of ready-to-wear clothes, some 2,500 costumes from 40 mostly Italian designers. "It bloats the stomach and boggles the mind," admitted one U.S. editor. "Can you imagine having to write about...
...dare to disco, thereby denying the universe and dropping the moment, Boston-Boston is the "best...
...played flawlessly by the unflappable Alan Arkin, that he's an extraterrestrial who has come to save the world. But they turn him into a monster, whose ego expands exponentially, and who eventually acquires his own television station--Simon, the fourth network--commanding people to terminate their fondness for disco, Muzak in elevators, and other socially irritating habits...
...Romance, Ultravox abruptly departed from its first-record flirtations with Eno and the tempestuous attempts at punk mentality on the second release, Ha! Ha! Ha! The band took the Great Leap Forward, both in terms of control and content, shifting from mondo-meltdown rockers to cool and cerebral nouveau disco. The main interest moved to, the machines themselves. Push a button and watch the lights blink. It was hypnotic and irresistible...
METAMATIC finds the metamorphosis complete. John Foxx has joined the German brigade, complete with disco beat, limited musical cosmology, and spectacular special effects. He has entered the machines and, apparently, won. Foxx has taken a handful of songs and a handful of song fragments and given them the grand tour of the synthesizers. Nothing more, nothing less. Even though there's nothing experimental about Metamatic, the overall conceptualization more than compensates for form, as with the best of Kraftwerk...