Archive for December, 2006
The Y2K explosion…
What a difference five years can make (compare, if you like, with the mid 90s mix, previous). As this mix may suggest, 2000 was perhaps the big year for future pop. The genre defining albums of Apoptygma Bezerk (Welcome to Earth) and Covenant (United States of Mind) complemented VNV Nation’s ‘Empires’ in combination [...]
This, for me, is where much of it began.
I remember being at Planet nightclub in Perth, circa mid-1995, and hearing ‘Cuz It’s Hot’. Particularly the ‘Thrill Kill, Thrill Kill’ refrain. I felt like I had found my way into a new, underground universe full of tantalizing possibility. Perhaps I had.
As it happened, the mid-90s were [...]
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