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Electronica Goes Straight To Ubiquity

Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 6 June 1999

THE USUAL trajectory for a new form of pop music is from underground sound to mainstream omnipresence, followed by eventual banalization as the style filters into television commercials and background music.

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