Word: electronicaã
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...album’s best songs, “Death +” and “Before Tigers,” succeed because they eschew the affectations of noise rock and the excesses of overwrought industrial metal, instead incorporating their androgynous vocals and skillful arrangements into a jammy, electronica??meets–rock framework that resembles, without imitating, the more relaxed aesthetic that Radiohead employed with “In Rainbows.” The restraint demonstrated in these songs make them the only ones which reveal musical and vocal subtleties on repeated listens...
With its indie sensibility, pierced baristas, and eclectic soundtrack—Bon Jovi shared the speaker system with obscure electronica??Diesel easily establishes its hipster bona fides. The pastel-painted walls and kitschy Americana (a diner clock, toy trains, a vintage gas station sign) lend warmth to an otherwise industrial setting of exposed beams and gallery lights...
Tomorrow Right Now pushes the boundaries of hip-hop and electronica??and while it is intelligent and definitely challenging, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is good music...
Japanese enigma Nobukazu Takemura tried to up the ante with his live performance, but following initial problems with the machines (always a bad thing at “electronica?? shows), the effect was almost numbing. Takemura’s compositions are largely inscrutable—exuberant and tangled webs of bleeps, squelches and drums occasionally verging on 180 beat-per-minute gabba tempos. This was performance, not participatory, music. The audience could do nothing but stand and let the waves of noise wash over them as Takemura and his labelmate Aki Tsuyoko tweaked the controls...
Still, two major electronic movements in recent memory have served as wake-up calls to America: the current trendiness of rave culture, led by superstar DJs and corporate entities, and 1997’s “electronica?? craze. The latter saw a flurry of sensationalist stories in music magazines that envisioned the rock paradigm being overtaken by a legion of keyboard-wielding techno-freaks, in some kind of premillennial musical cyborg invasion. The truth was that artists like Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers themselves represented a rock-happy crossover breed, integrating elements from rave culture in order...
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