new_wave - Profile (original) (raw)

on 9 April 2002 (#522618)

in this dust that was a city

remember when we believed music would change the world?

There is also a good dose of the anarchistic, rebellious energy of punk rock in Otpor, but without a Malcolm McLaren or Johnny Rotten. Otpor is leaderless and anti-hierarchical, a key to having successfully avoided the dragnet of Milosevic's secret police, and, as the kids put it, a natural response to a lifetime of leadership cult. -- from Serbia's New New Wave, In These Times 25/07

The information revolution taught us that computers aren't going to take over the world, and they aren't turning anyone into soulless robots. But our newfound adoration for these machines has allowed raw, unregulated capitalism to penetrate our social lives in ways that are increasingly painful and troubling. As Le Tigre points out in its songs--set to a jagged, twitchy synth beat--computers have become the battlefield where class warfare is waged. -- from New New Wave, by Annalee Newitz, Metroactive, March 2002

agata kristi, alpine stars, antarctica, apoptygma berzerk, baxendale, blue invention, cabaret voltaire, echo image, gary numan, iris, kirlian camera, ladytron, laibach, leiahdorus, m.i.a., new new wave, null device, simple minds, soviet, the aeffect, the causey way, the echoing green, the spoons, ultravox!