ok yea i know i posted this ( i think ?) already but here it is again ...



someone ask if it was a current issue of spin.......







it is the current(jan 2004) issue it has coldplay as band of the year and chris martin on the fron cover.. they are in the my life as music section.. there just talking about what albums unfluenced them blah blah blah i didnt like how as the writer for this article put it .. " even as the sun has set on the electronica revolution they pioneered the recent compolation SINGLES 93-03 shows that there big beats can still rock a living room..." writen by Greg Milner.. OK .. that was the most insulting thing i have ever heard somone write about .. about the chemical brothers.. the electronica era is NOT and i repeat NOT over..( it has just begun) it sounds like he was writing there last will and testemony WTF there not finihsed there far from finihsed.. and they can still bomb the bass in a club ... not just rock a living room .. heh im going to write a little letter to spin .. im mad now ...





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Now now, don't get too much in a huff over this. I didn't really find the journalist's word choice insulting. What he was referring to is that the electronic revolution (U.S. circa 1997, anyone?) has come and gone - not electronic music. The revolution helped bring electronic music overground and helped integrate the music and culture into the everyday mindset. Basically, the revolution sort of "broke" electronic music and made people feel it's not some passing fad but it's here to stay. If anything, by saying the Chems can still rock the house - even if he meant livingrooms across the globe, cuz, let's face it, we do listen to them in our livingrooms, don't we? - then that's not a bad thing. Maybe if I were the journalist I wouldn't have said exactly that, but I don't think the journalist in question was out to insult the Chemical Brothers. If he wanted to be insulting, he could have, and I've read more slams on the Bros than I care to count. But anywho, any decent music journalist that knows his/her shit knows the Chems were at the head of that revolution...



There's a lot of great electronic music out there, but back then it seemed more fresh, different, innovative, whatever (to snag chemicalreaction's trademark word) but the reality is, the mainstream was inundated with electronic music. We've heard it in commercials, soundtracks, sitcoms, and as background filler for various radio/television shows - and now people's interests are shifting which may put electronic music (at least here in the States) a little back into the underground. Just an observation of what I've seen over the years. This doesn't mean I'm saying that the electronic music era is over, because we all know it's here to stay. It just means that the army has quieted down perhaps laying low for the next revolutionary onslaught.



I hope I made sense. :-//

:-// now i feel stupid.. sorry just voicing my thoughts on that ... im a little calmer now and i know hwere you are commin from ... :-//

Most music is becoming electronic now. Hip hop and Rock bands are using Rolands and all the other fancy stuff to make their music more diverse...so no one can really say that electronic music is gone...it will never.