Chicago native Nathaniel Jones, aka DJ Pierre is one of the most legendary and genre forming artists in the history of American electronic music. His group Phuture's 1988 tune 'Acid Tracks' caused a stir in Great Britain when the track, rather unintentionally, became an anthem of acid house, the pr
The Chemical Brothers' short story seems riddle with chance occurences. The chance that two guys who met in a college history class in the early 1990s would spawn the creation of the Dust Brothers (renamed the Chemical Brothers in 1995). The chance that a couple of geeks with a penchant for old guita
Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" is indubitably a masterpiece of the most sublime emotional order. The notion of reinventing this classical mainstay might seem impossible, defamatory, or even ridiculous. Apparently, William Orbit is willing to risk it: his "Pieces in a Modern Style" (2000) gives