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Joyce Sims: All About Love (Sleeping Bag 823 1291)

Mark Sinker, The Observer, 10 September 1989

DISCO'S FUTURIST variants Chicago House and Detroit Techno are machine-age musics that prefer motion to emotion, leaving mainstream R&B seeming old-form and narrow — only going anywhere when it's working the tension between enfleshed hurting soul and smart mechanoid beat.

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