I believe electronic dance music has proven fairly resistant to mainstream marketing--marketing needs a "face" and the music is so anonymous. The best The Industry has come up with is the Prodigy and Moby. Meanwhile, great music keeps coming out--when I was dj'ing last year I could hardly keep up with it. I like DJ Assault, the house-influenced hiphop on the Cash Money label (what I've heard), Swayzak, Beroshima, Safety Scissors... There's still a lot of good drum-and-bass and 2-step garage going on. (The websites for Breakbeat Science and Throb have scores of good samples).
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- tom moody 7-07-2001 8:15 pm