#90s electronic

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1997: "I'm Afraid of Americans" by David Bowie.

Written during Bowie's electronic period, this song was co-written with Brian Eno. Lyrically, the song finds Bowie in the grips of paranoia about a guy named Jonny who's obsession for material possessions and frightens the singer. In reality, Jonny was meant to be a representation of a stereotypical American obsessed with capitalist culture. "It's not as truly hostile about Americans as say Born In The U.S.A!: it's merely sardonic," Bowie explained in a press release. "I was traveling in Java [Indonesia] when its first McDonald's went up: it was like, 'for f—k's sake! The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life."

When released as a single (the V1 Mix) features additional vocals from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who also contributed guitar, bass, and drums. Renor, one of Bowie's touring mates, also starred in the music video as Jonny, stalking a terrified Bowie around New York City. According to Renor he has a complicated relationship with the song. He was in the middle of a drug addiction and Bowie, who had kicked his own habit, was trying to help him see the light. Reznor recalled to Rolling Stone after Bowie's death: "Once I got clean, I felt a tremendous amount of shame, of my actions and missed opportunities and the damage that l've caused in the past. And I thought back to the time when [Bowie and ll were together a lot, and I wonder what that could have been like if I was at 100 percent. 'I'm Afraid of Americans' falls into that category of me at my worst - out of my mind and ashamed of who I was at that time.

So when I see that, I have mixed feelings - grateful to be involved, and flattered to be a part of it, but disgusted at myself, at who I was at that time, and wishing I had been 100 percent me. And it nagged me."

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Depeche Mode - Violator (Mute UK/Sire-Reprise-Warner Bros. US, 1990) - Design by Anton Corbijn in association with Area

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Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug (1997)

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Movin' (Trans Luna Injection Burn Mix) - Marathon

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'90s MV of the day

Army Of Me by Björk

Directed by Michel Gondry.

"When Michel [Gondry] gets his strokes of genius and, in the video for "Army of Me", wants a dentist that's a gorilla to find a diamond in my mouth, some people call it nonsense. But it's probably the most realistic way of expressing what situation I'm in – all these people trying to take things away from me, and the gorilla finding a diamond that I don't know I have and then stealing it. "Army of Me" is so much about me actually learning that I have to defend myself. I have to stand up and fight the fucking gorilla. Once I've got the diamond and I run away with it, it becomes massive 'cos it's mine. But if the gorilla had kept it, it would have gone really tiny. That's surrealism for me." — Björk, speaking about the gorilla dentist scene

The song was featured on the soundtrack for Tank Girl, but Björk declined to use footage from the film in her music video.

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Electronic albums I like from the 90s

Talking the 90s might be a lengthy way to explain in some segments why I chose these records. While grunge was getting some attention, there were underground music going on like death metal, black metal, techno, electronic music, etc.

This post is the same premise as the last one.

1990: Depeche Mode - Violator (my fave album) The Shamen - En-Tact Leather Strip - Science for the Satanic Citizen Nitzer Ebb - Showtime Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks OST

1991: Lords of Acid - Lust Front 242 - Tyranny For You Delerium - Stone Tower Biosphere - Microgravity LFO - Frequencies 808 State - ex:el Massive Attack - Blue Lines

1992: Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Vangelis - 1492 OST KMFDM - Money Go West - Indian Summer Jeff Greinke - Lost Terrain

1993: Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion F.U.S.E. - Dimension Intrusion

1994: Vangelis - Blade Runner Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman Massive Attack - Protection Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II Autechre - Amber

1995: The Frozen Autumn - Pale Awakening Aphex Twin - …I Care Because You Do

1996: burger/ink - Las Vegas Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants

1997: Depeche Mode - Ultra (my fave album) The Frozen Autumn - Fragments of Memories The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land Information Society - Don't Be Afraid KMFDM - Symbols Savage Garden - Savage Garden Aqua - Aquarium

1998: Plastikman - Consumed UNKLE - Psyence Fiction Bola - Soup Madonna - Ray of Light Massive Attack - Mezzanine VNV Nation - Praise the Fallen

1999: Underworld - Beaucoup Fish VNV Nation - Empires Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile Forest Silence - Winter Circle