I was disappointed by this album. It seems Laurie Anderson wanted to go mainstream. It's still nice to hear, but has no really values, like a songwriter album. I missed her strange vocals and her private stories as in "Mister Heartbreak".

yes! Coincidentally you will start "M Factor" or another version of "Pop Muzik", it depends on just where you lay down the needle. A joke. There's another 12" that does this: International Breakdown Commando:"Eat This".

I'm surprised that this record contains a lot of 4-to-the-floor drum'n'bass tracks that have it. they are not too hard and not to smooth. Sometimes someone does a rap, however, good album and distant from the 80s Todd Terry.

The New York jazz new wave industrial conglomeration Bill Laswell started his career on. There are a lot of side projects: Golden Palominos, Massacre, Praxis,... Material made a mixture of noises, funk, new wave, jazz and industrial and became later a soul-funk-disco-project (Whitney Houston sung on "One Down"!), later again Material transformed to P-Funk and world music which became a little boring.

Arto Lindsay is a guitarist who started with the no new york band DNA, played with Material, Bill Laswell, Lounge Lizards(?), James White and so on. Had his own band Ambitious Lovers: electronic jazz-hiphop with crazy industrial influences and a melancholic brazilian flavor. his music shows sometimes a kind of "overdoing", but he got calmer in time and maybe better in some viewer's eye.

heavy electronic soulful dub trip hop industrial stuff, getting ambient at the end of the record. reminds me of Annie Anxiety -"Soul Possession". btw, is this really the "promo"-version? I guess it's official because it can be bought in stores.

Miami Bass with two sweet girls which voices are so high and small, but the correct antidote to the booming, heavy beats. I like them, but not when they're making hip house.

This is the masterpiece of Thomas Leer. He borrowed a lot of equipment (guitar, bass, r-box, synth) from some musicians and recorded 7 tracks on 4-track. And this is a mixture of soul, funk, electronics, industrial and new wave. And it's fantastic how much soul this has. Listen to his riding synth horn section going solo at the end of the title song (14 minutes on this 12").

Keith LeBlanc started as a drummer for the Sugarhill Label (Grandmaster Flash -yes HipHop), went to Adrian Sherwood's On-U-Label to produce dub-funk tracks for Mark Stewart + Maffia, Tackhead (together with Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald), later Strange Parcels and a lot of other projects. Interesting musician. Combines drum sounds with samples, machine noises with soul.

When Jarre made his synthesizer stuff, we never said "trance" or something like that. "Oxygene" and "Equinox" is music in tradition of Mike Oldfield, only electronic. And there are no parts on these records (maybe except "Equinox 6") that have trance character. It was just simple pop music, electronic folk, not meant as electronic dance music. Nothing more. btw, some people said that listening to this music could make you crazy because the sounds were so clean! lol!