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...drawing away from the glammy, androgynous danceclubs of the 1980s and into drug-filled warehouses filled with a bizarre mix of hipsters and ne’er-do-wells. The Happy Mondays, who got their name from a term for the tranquil E come-down the day after a rave, had popularized the scene the year before with their top-40 hit EP Madchester Rave On, but their next full-length Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, my pick for all-time greatest drug album, blew it open as Britain seemed to slowly turn into...
...Cop”) a tribute to a ’60s icon (“Donovan”) and a family tragedy (“Grandbag’s Funeral”) before “Loose Fit,” a grooving tribute to the rave movement as fitting as any hedonistic hippie anthem. Over a repeated synth line and low, jazzy percussion, Ryder maps out the loose-fit aesthetic and the ethos of the accompanying rave scene as the album shifts to depictions of the loosely-fit’s high life, with the buoyancy of stand...
...course, Simon McBurney had to try. His London-based Complicite theater group teamed up last year with Tokyo's Setagaya Public Theatre to tackle Murakami. ("Japan's Kafka," McBurney calls him.) The result, The Elephant Vanishes, has played to packed houses and rave reviews in Tokyo, New York and London. It opened at MC93 Bobigny in suburban Paris earlier this month, and it will soon move to the Power Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...this song. Sadly, however, the remaining twelve tracks come nowhere near to living up to this high standard. The second track “Girls” sounds like an unholy marriage of the all of the worst elements of old-school rap and British drum and bass rave music...
This album’s major fault stems from the absence of the crazed Keith Flint. What had made the Prodigy so unique was its ambiguous and unique identity as an electronica band with an identifiable voice and front man; it wasn’t just rave music, but something new with a cool beat that you could sing along to. Evidently, however, the real brains behind the Prodigy from the start was arranger/producer Liam Howlett and, in this latest effort, he takes the band back to its roots, unfortunately relegating it to the category of mediocre dance music...