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...Centrex or a friendly pay phone, it isn't hard to place a call. But for pay phones you need to find 35 cents or remember your calling card number. Always a pain. And Centrexes have the whole privacy issue. Someone calls up and you hear the customary static and background noise. "How are you?" And then you can broadcast your personal business over a rather wide radius. Not so fun. And you can only call Harvard people, a disadvantage if you know people who have more than 5 digits in their phone number. Or already have cell phones...
Certainly, Mutations will not disappointany Odelay fan. Joyful juxtapositions arestrewn throughout the album: harmonicas andharpsichords, slide guitars and synthesizers,rural blues and robotic buzzes. The musicalcanvas, as on Odelay, is rich and broad.Yet, the mellowness of the album dampens theclimate of carefree experimentation struggling toemerge. Even the song titles--"Static," "LazyFlies," "Dead Melodies"--indicate the vibe ofdeflated indolence that restrains the album fromexploding with fresh ideas. Lyrics onMutations exchange the trenchant absurdistinsights of Odelay for a strained maturityand faux wisdom, as when Beck writes, "Doldrumsare pounding/Cheapskates are clowning this town."The belabored cuteness of the imagery and Beck'sstilted delivery...
...appreciated for its artistically creative elements. This places Hovercraft in a netherworld between light industrial and dance techno, a crossbred product that bears none of the enjoyable and successful elements of its ancestors. The only other danceable track is "Benzedrine," but this is the result of a static beat pattern that could easily be imitated by using a drum machine and some subtle mixing. The repetition concludes with "Wire Trace" and "Epoxy," which are conspicuous replicas of the linked tracks "Anthropod" and "Phantom Limbs," but with slightly faster beats. As a result...
...song serves as an excellent demonstration of Fatboy Slim's integration of a wide and diverse variety of musical genres into his mixes, instead of relying solely on any particular sound. Fatboy keeps the beats interesting and unconventional at any tempo and consistently resists the urge to fall into static patterns in a musical genre that is notorious for relentless repetition...
Recent introductions to the Web, such as style sheets and scripting languages offer more than static information. Dynamic HTML (DHTML) is a standard-in-progress in which Web pages themselves can have applications written in them. This means that burdens on Web servers can be lessened and content can be even more lively...