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...these instruments, rather than simply programming them. The resulting combination of sophistication and sponteneity has earned Think Tree recognition on the local music scene and airplay on local radio, most notably on alternative giant WFNX. When asked about their musical influences, the band is unanimous on one point: "Not slick pop in any genre...
MOORE: Electronic, now, has come to mean slickness, largely because that's what it's employed for, because it can do so well making something sound really slick and nice. Electronics do that really easily and automatically. The cool samples, the factory samples, whatever. But to us, that is the abuse of that technology; that is exactly what music shouldn't be. Electronics doesn't equal slick to us. It just means a whole new palette of sounds, that if you use them creatively, can be the antithesis of slick, can be raw as hell. It depends...
...YORK--Image is a decisive vote-getting factor in the Empire State, and the "victory parties" thrown last night affirmed the perceived reputations of both "Slick Willie" Clinton and Edmund G. "Moonbeam" Brown...
...concluded that it was a mistake to cut himself off from his family and his country, so he went home to Spokane to sort out his life. He was unable to do so. On Sept. 12, 1971, he killed himself. I called Bill with the news. There was nothing slick in his grief...
...resurrection is linked to his small-contributions-only 800 number, which has kept his ascetic, spare-couches-and-coach-seats crusade alive with $3.5 million in pledges and $2 million in actual contributions. Brown may be only the vessel of protest against big-money politics and Clinton's too-slick-for-his-own-good image. But after months lost in what Brown calls "the dark hole of media nonexistence," he is suddenly running nearly even in the Clinton campaign's private polls handicapping the decisive April 7 New York primary...