From WOOD man Sent Mon, Jul 26th 1999, 14:09
> Did any of you go, or rather, what's the general consensus in > America regarding the festival? Hell, if this is the current state of > music, I shall henceforth bury myself even deeper in IDM :-) The newspapers describe "the hot new music" these days as "heavy-hop" or "hip-metal" or "hip-hop influenced heavy rock," lots of stick-up-the-ass ways of saying that Korn sucks and so does Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock (if trip-hop is watered down from "true" hip-hop, certainly a guy with a silly hat singing nonsense is as well, eh?), who are allegedly leading some sort of hip-hop/metal fusion thing around here these days. Just like Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, and John Leguizamo are leading the Latin pop explosio Anyway, there's lots of media coverage on MTV, newspapers, etc., but just the normal adults-amazed-at-the-young'uns stuff, I suppose. Sections about the extreme sports and how there was a birth, a death, and some arrests, blah... Geoff np: "bawitdaba, dang-a-dang diggy diggy diggy..."