Word: techno
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...goes the chorus, and so goes the album, rambunctiously rhyming away the contradiction of every postmodern fiction. From this point on, the first half of Midnite Vultures maintains its energy with some of Beck's best ever lyrics supported by beats indebted, impressively, to both hip-hop and techno...
...easy enough to lump all dance music under the neat-to-fit category of "techno." Or "electronica," which according to reports is a sneaky term created by American record companies to avoid calling it "dance" music. Apparently record companies think Americans look down on music made for dancing. But then you go out for a night on the town, and with the Lansdowne St. clubs all proudly advertising their music allegiances for that particular night, your bluff is called...so here's The Crimson's helpful guide to dance music genres...
...Techno has its spiritual home in Detroit. To be specific, its roots lie in '80s Detroit, which might explain its darker, grittier sound, compared to the escapism of house. As its name suggests, techno tends to focus on the possibilities of the machine, involving perhaps more daring explorations, although detractors claims that takes away from the music's danceability...
...overlooked. It calls for a precise interplay of uncomplicated but carefully wrought elements: the tensely chromatic rise and fall of the bass, the edgy twang of crafty appoggiaturas, wailing brass punctuation in all the right places. It's just so. What the music doesn't need is a techno beat underneath...
...James Bond flick gives it one. In fact, the The World Is Not Enough seems to do its best to put a techno beat under the whole picture. The whole thing is ultimately too souped up for its own good; perhaps a strange complaint for a Bond film, but there's a fine line between class and crass. It almost seems as though James Bond himself is set at odds with his style of movie-making. 007 is a man of simple pleasures and simple motivations; get the girl, save the world. Sure, he uses expensive gadgets and blows...