Word: techno
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...birthday present, Merritt once decided to give himself isolation. He avoided speaking to another human being for nearly 24 hours, then ventured out to a bookstore and ran smack into his ex-boyfriend. 3) Merritt was browsing in another bookstore when he stumbled across a title by the Scottish techno duo the KLF that promised to reveal the secrets of writing a No. 1 song. He raced to an ATM to get some cash, but when he returned, the book was gone. He has been unable to find it since...
...friend of mine recently articulated something that I’d previously been grappling with—the suggestion that music can be design and not art. He was referring to techno and dance culture, where quality corresponds on most levels to functionality, how well a track can create physical synergy between artist and audience. Tracks are DJ tools, product rather than artwork; performances are DJ sets, ephemeral rather than everlasting moments. Both signify a global rather than a singular worldview which encapsulates millions of individuals. You don’t embody the music as much as you?...
...contrast with more routine runway shows that incorporate techno, lounge or jazz music at different points in the show, Eleganza’s musical range was strictly limited to straight hip-hop. The result was occasionally jarring, particularly at one point in “Hollywood,” when models paying homage to cinematic couplings of the 50s strutted to the R&B groove of Next’s “Wifey...
...player: Rap music (50 Cent—“P.I.M.P.” is his cell phone ring and he likes the song too, also the rap remix of Mariah Carey’s “Heartbreaker”), Latin music, Europop and techno...
Even when Vladislav Delay was known for his obtuse abstractions on the Mille Plateaux label rather than his dancefloor-tinged output as Luomo, the influence of techno and house rhythms on his productions was clear. It was his debut Luomo album, Vocalcity, which perfected the marriage of experimentation and functionality, becoming an icon of the nascent subgenre known as “microhouse.” Tracks like “Tessio” and “Class” were radically insular for house music. Instead of satisfying that genre’s anthemic impulse, they called attention...