Many recall the House & Techno craze of the 1990's with the same kind of detached, hazy feeling one would expect from a hangover. Sweaty dance clubs, the popular drug ecstasy, and overly repetitive beats are just a few of the things associated with this musical phenomenon. An exception to this rule i
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
"If Krust walks into the studio and his head is nodding," Roni Size once said of his collaborator DJ Krust, "that's enough. I know I've got a result there." Clearly, Size and his Bristol-based collective, Reprazent, let intuition guide their musical aesthetic. In true Bristol fashion, their sound is