Word: techno
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Like Music, Madonna's far more buoyant previous album, American Life is evenly split between upbeat techno tunes and midtempo ballads. Most of the techno songs are about the mechanization and superficiality of modern life. The production, by Mirwais Ahmadzai, is predictably stuttering and jumpy. The tracks sound fussed over, but they're also full of surprising grooves and are primed for club play. It's the vocals that could use a remix. Like Laurence Fishburne's oddball Morpheus in The Matrix, Madonna tries to accentuate the plight of humanity by enunciating like a robot. Her mechanical...
...game involves standing on a touch-sensitive dance pad while colorful scrolling arrows on screen direct players to “dance” to a techno-beat song...
Long a deprecated choice of exercise, power walking is slowly gaining street cred. The recent publication of Fitness Walking for Dummies is one testament to the growing popularity of the sport. The power walking craze has also spawned new musical offerings, with genres ranging from techno versions of classical music to Baptist hymns, chosen for their ability to energize you just enough so that you peak out in that precarious state between briskly walking and jogging leisurely...
...starting," you're reading a line from a Woody Allen story. Real life rarely offers such prescience, even from the people paid to deliver it. Some of the days commemorated in this 80-year retrospective slipped by unnoticed at the time. Who could imagine that a gizmo to help techno-nerds talk to one another with their computers would so radically alter how we all would connect with one another? Other days might not have made the list at all if it had been put together a decade ago. History comes with its very own Doppler effect: as our point...
...turned-experimental indie band perfect the superb attention to detail and rhythmic awareness they demonstrated on 1998’s Shrink. The new album is a stunning assembly of illusive beats, eerie electronic noises and subtle, meandering melodies. As such, the album sounds like a crossbreed of glitchy, danceable techno, catchy pop-rock and minimalist jazz—all with a sustained art-house aloofness...