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More recently, however, notions of faceless bedroom producers, vinyl culture and spinning records as performance have become commonplace, thanks to mass marketing and overall cool factor. The downer this time is that, unlike thrilling chart-toppers like “Firestarter” and “Setting Sun,” the music in the limelight is barely deserving of notice. Most popular are formulaic, cheap-rush trance that any talentless hack with a computer can cough out, and its dry counterpart “progressive” house, the style championed by purists like John Digweed...
...Avalanches entered at a perfect moment. Faceless producers have been refining and reinventing the forlorn soul of Detroit techno and Chicago house for more than a decade. While so much dance music continues to fashion itself around their paradigm, perhaps it’s time for another revolution. The Avalanches aren’t bringing the soul back to electronic music; they are giving...
...were when I got that letter. There weren’t even words. And this year, my dad called and he wrote letters and provided documentation about the hardship that loans were causing. The financial aid committee didn’t change anything at all. I feel like a faceless number to them, like personal circumstances aren’t considered...
Imagine this: you wake up every morning nervous, stalked by faceless enemies. It is nothing personal; they just hate what they think you represent. The attack could come at any time, and there is virtually no defense. If that seems to describe all America at the moment, there is one group for whom the unbearable tension since the World Trade Center attack is doubled. If you are a Muslim or an Arab, or look like one to someone focused primarily on his own rage, you must fear not only bin Laden-style terrorism but also the insults, blows and bullets...
Nearly everyone in Washington has all but concluded the whorls and ridges belong to bin Laden. President Bush named him the "prime suspect" on Saturday. When you look at the point of this attack, who better does it serve? The faceless enemy needs no claim of responsibility to get his message across; he has no agenda that can be met. What he wants is to make a statement: to carry out attacks to prove that he can. What better recruiting poster than that searing image of a plane shearing through the south tower: it tells the faithful, Look...