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d3 boards => Gossip => Topic started by: spazoid on March 12, 2004, 12:40:07 PM

Title: clueless
Post by: spazoid on March 12, 2004, 12:40:07 PM

saw this on skruff.  man these people are wack

"Maybe it makes sense that dance music would come to suffer from the same obliviousness it celebrates. Despite its continuing popularity, dance music is all but invisible in America." (New York Times)

The New York Times's Ultra Festival reviewer struggles to understand dance music's still massive underground popularity in the States.

'We want to make sure drugs aren't coming into the city. Lord knows how many lives we saved by making the arrests and by being there.'

Miami cop Lieutenant Rene Landa on arresting 117 revellers for drugs offences at last weekend's Ultra Music Festival.

Title: Re:clueless
Post by: jdubb on March 13, 2004, 08:05:58 PM

Add this to the list:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/12/arts/music/12WINT.html

This article is pretty poor.  It starts out with...

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How do you solve a problem like electronica?

Even after reading the rambling article, you still wonder what the point of the opening sentence was.  

Title: Re:clueless
Post by: twiloalum on March 15, 2004, 11:48:51 AM

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How do you solve a problem like electronica?

Since when was electronica a problem? This article is awful. I can just see the author attending the Republican convention in the fall...  "How do you solve a problem like Republicans?" That would great way to open the article on the convention.  ;)