Word: techno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bright spots in this otherwise dismal production is ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith's snappy, techno-country-Western soundtrack. But Nesmith also co-wrote the juvenile screenplay, and it seems a clear Indication as in where his talents...
...stage, the people who've just got to move to the beat are failing about, but no one comes close to bumping into anyone else. Guitarist Roger Miller blasts out thick, distorted chords, one piled on top of another for a sound that is at once 1969 techno-pop. Sound man Martin Swope stoops over a mixing board near the back of the dance floor, recording Miller's efforts, scrambling things around, and then feeding the whole mess back through the P.A. so that it sounds as if there's an army of guitarists performing. Very spontaneous...
...techno-cowboy's metaphor that borders on the kinky...
Like last year's Lodger album, Bowie serves up his techno-rock blend with great coolness and calculation here. Scary Monsters' atmosphere of brooding paranoia is constructed with meticulous care, emphasizing abrasive musical textures. Clattering percussion, slithering keyboards and piercing guitar (courtesy of Robert Fripp) surround Bowie's sometimes morose, sometimes hypertense vocals. Oddities, such as a Japanese translation of "It's No Game," are included just for the sake of bizarreness...
...Bourne Identity, Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave or Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's The Brethren. Like Talese, Woodward and Armstrong are not only verbose but fond of dangling their modifiers and splitting their infinitives. Toffler specializes in hyperbolic jargon: "Vast changes in the techno-sphere and the info-sphere have converged to change the way we make goods. We are moving rapidly beyond traditional mass production to a sophisticated mix of mass and demassified products ... made with wholistic, continuous-flow processes." Krantz goes for grand howlers: "Thank heaven they'd all be in their staterooms...