Word: fader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moog 2000" and Shut Up and Dance's version of "Every Home a Prison" kick off well, but the rest of the album fails to inspire. The remixes just don't compare to the originals. The live versions of "Atomic Moog 2000" and "Panopticon," as well as DJ Lord Fader's scratched-up version of "More Beats and Pieces" are just reminders of the fresh sounds of the originals. Coldcut are hard to beat, being the founders of the Ninja Tune label, and makers of one of the best DJ mix albums ever (1996's Journeys By DJ-Coldcut). Still...
...spent in high spirits in the spectacular $1,200-a-night Presidential Suite on the 17th floor of the Hotel Inter-Continental. The jurors laughed, schmoozed and sang together as a pianist performed jazzy sing-along tunes on the suite's baby grand. Said hotel general manager Lewis Fader, who was at the party: "They were like a fraternity. They seemed so close to each other. There was a lot of hugging and kissing." A juror went back and forth drinking beer, wine, beer, wine, said one hotel staffer. "I'm sure a few of them had hangovers the next...
Interspersed with these vignettes of urban romance are a few stories that provide a psychological history for Beller's characters. These pieces trace the young adulthood of Alex Fader, a fatherless only child who tries hard to suppress his love for an often elusive mother. Ultimately, though, Alex forges an enviable closeness with her, and that leaves the reader with hope for all the floundering, grownup versions of him in this spirited collection...