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...truth is evident: the gay scene?indisputably one of the drivers of the city's cosmopolitan nightlife?has finally arrived, with or without the laws. It had been evolving in the past few years alongside? and often in combination with?Singapore's alternative youth culture (with which it shares DJs, venues, fashion and a lot else besides). When Goh proclaimed that "in time, the population will understand that some people are born that way ? but they are like you and me," he seemed to these groups to be talking from some kind of social space capsule, viewing Earth...
...people of his adopted country. Their doctor friend Ali also clings to his Bengali heritage, and is profoundly embarrassed by his inability to prevent his wife and daughter from becoming Westernized. Nazneen's children and other second-generation Bangladeshis are the obligatory rebels - they all listen to Asian-rap DJs, fall into bad company, become junkies or run away from home. Even the mealymouthed money-lender and the neighborhood busybody are staples of Subcontinental literature, although Ali fuses them together in the unusually female form of Mrs. Islam. As a result, it is almost impossible to feel for these people...
...Orange Factory remix led to the Walking on Thin Ice remixes, which have the advantage of using Ono's best source material. Unlike recent Cher and Madonna dance tracks, which play up the robotic inauthenticity of the vocals for camp value, the Ice DJs seem to have genuine affection for Ono's dramatic howls. The Danny Tenaglia Walked Across the Lake Mix cleverly elongates her abstract vocal--"I gave you my knife, you gave me my life/Like a gush of wind in my hair"--until Ono sounds every bit like the grieving widow she is. The Pet Shop Boys' Radio...
...began with DJs spinning music at parties, and Jurassic take this origin to heart, putting their collective energies into live performance. During their show at Brandeis University last month, they declared: “We don’t give concerts. We throw parties...
Likewise, Jurassic’s DJs play an integral role in the group, sharing the spotlight with the emcees on stage and in the studio. At Brandeis, Cut Chemist made jaws drop when he strapped a turntable and a crossfader to his body like a guitar...