Word: underground
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made vocodering a trip before Cher took it to hell), instant knees-up anthem "Yo-Yo" and totally berzerk "Jump N' Shout," all of which were lauded with cries and sky-jabs from the crowd. This is, after all, the stuff that won them love when they were still underground. Felix's love for latin fusion, jazz rock and New York house were all there, slapped with Simon Face of Stone's sleight-of-hand technical leaning and wedged in everywhere with disco, ragga, R&B, Chicago house, techno, jungle, flamenco, breakbeat, punk, garage and all their lovely bastard crossbreeds...
...live music venue. The stage takes, well, centerstage in a room plastered with rock n' roll obituaries. The new big thing here is Monsta Mondays, featuring local and touring old school rock bands. This continues the tradition started in the now defunct Mama Kin. Sundays feature reggae and Underground Thursdays dish up anything alternative. Everybody's a friend here. Talk to any of the staff, all of whom belong to one band or another, to find out what's going on in the underground...
...Lizard Lounge has a devoted, dreadlocked Cantabridgian following, but few Harvard types are cool enough to know about this avant-garde nest of musical experimentation. The lounge is 1920s Paris underground jumpstarted by a few decades, air-conditioned and in English. "Club d'Elf" performs mind-expanding electronica on Thursdays while Sundays see one of the best poetry jams in town, accompanied by the smooth Jeff Robinson Trio. Anyone can have a go: the atmosphere is hip yet forgiving...
...result was an underground complex of computerized machinery more worthy of NASA than Bell Ringing Beef...
Taiwan had prepared its defenses to face an enemy from across the sea; instead, a different enemy struck from underground: A devastating earthquake struck the island early Tuesday, killing at least 1,700 people ? although the death toll is rising by the hour ? and reminded both Taiwan and Beijing of forces far more powerful than the enmity that divides them. The second worst quake to hit the island this century measured 7.6 on the Richter scale ? the recent disastrous tremor in Turkey was 7.4 ? and struck hardest in the central Nantou and Taichung counties, although a hotel and other buildings...