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...pounding heart of every rave is the galvanizing, metronomic beat of techno, a term coined to describe an intensely synthetic, hyperkinetic form of dance music that was born in Detroit during the mid-'80s. A fusion of the futuristic computer-driven sound of European bands like Kraftwerk and the rhythmic possibilities of computer-controlled keyboards, techno caught on first in Britain and Belgium, where it became the sound track for marathon "acid house" parties...
...supple guitar riffs and fluid compositions of PAT METHENY are still the best evidence around that jazz-pop fusion works. But Secret Story is not just another eloquent instrumental statement. It is a "theme" album with a surprising subject: Pat Metheny. The tracks form an emotional though virtually wordless chronicle of his ill-fated romance with a Brazilian woman. Above the Treetops uses a sweet-voiced Cambodian women's choir to herald the excitement of new love. The intensity builds through the poignant Longest Summer (on which Metheny makes his piano debut). The wrenching finale, Not to Be Forgotten...
...programmers -- white and black -- to play their music. "Radio is now the stumbling block," says Nuumi Rayfield Jarvis, founder of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Rock Coalition, a national network of 50 bands that organized seven years ago to promote black rock. Because it ranges from jazz fusion to thrash metal, black rock doesn't fit neatly into any of the traditional grooves that determine how music is marketed. Executives who program for traditional rock stations fret that the white teens who make up their audiences won't identify with black rockers. Black programmers argue that their listeners...
...nuclear- weapons programs, hired his entire Moscow lab out to Sun Microsystems of Mountain View, Calif., to develop computers and software. Also last week, the U.S. Department of Energy signed a one-year contract with scientists at Moscow's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy to do research on thermonuclear fusion, a potentially limitless energy source that American physicists have been struggling with for decades. Both deals are tremendous bargains for the U.S. Sun is paying Babayan's 50 or so crack computer scientists just a few hundred dollars a year apiece. And the entire 116-member Kurchatov team is being...
...with children. The bride and groom of the wedding I attended met at the annual January "March for Life" in 1990. (Two years ago today.) Both, obviously, are committed anti-abortionists. They are marrying young, but they have considered their options long enough and seem ready to start the fusion of two lives which marriage entails...