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...Matt MacInnis '02...When the Masquerade became a sweaty, sloppy mess, Matt rescued the roaming masses by DJ-ing a fabulous Plympton St. party that was the place to be seen on Saturday night. Besides having great taste in music, he's also one of the chillest, coolest guys you'll meet...
...Disney Elton John, Williams is blessed with the rarest of pop assets--a sense of humor. As a refugee from the English boy band Take That, Williams pretty much had to learn how to sing with his tongue in his cheek; and here, on the ridiculously camp Rock DJ and the Gloria Gaynor-needling Supreme, he proves that high-energy, danceable pop can be funny for the right reasons. When called upon (Better Man, The Road to Mandalay), he can also sell a song like a more traditional emoter, but what fun is that...
Williams has the reputation of being a bad boy in the British rock scene, earning his name with outrageous live shows and crazy antics. The video for his first single, "Rock DJ," shows Williams performing a strip show at a roller disco. But of course Williams takes the idea too far-he strips naked, then pulls off his own skin, muscles and intestines, throwing them all to the women who caress his body parts adoringly around his dancing skeleton...
...writing is Williams' diversity. "Supreme," loosely based on Gloria Gaynor's classic "I Will Survive," is a short diversion into a mainstream pop sound. The ballads "Better Man" and "If It's Hurting You" demonstrate an impressive songwriting ability and unexpected emotional intensity. And the first single, "Rock DJ," is a funky, slick track with an insistent beat that takes hold of you and doesn...
Philosophical implications aside, this two-disc compilation from New York label Jungle Sky explores the intersection of speed-addled Bristol drum patterns, Manhattan cosmopolitanism and South Bronx block-party aesthetic. The hands-down (or hands-in-the-air) high point is the nightmarish groove of DJ Karlos & Evil Nice's "No Doubt." Equally impressive is Yellow Note's "The World is a Jungle," a charmingly scruffy union of tricked-out reggae and hard-step...