With Chemical Brothers & Orbital producing worst material yet, Leftfields split, Prodigys delays, dance music- in trouble or in transition?
Well, Good question! And one that is quite broad, so it’s difficult to cover in one answer, but we will give our rough overview: – We’re now into the second half of 2002, and dance music is probably in a transition, which in our opinion is a good thing. We don’t really like commenting on other people’s music too much, as at the end of the day it’s a matter of opinion. However, especially in the UK, having success with music can put the artist in a difficult position. Either they try and produce music that will appeal to people because it sound similar to their previous material, and risk being accused of cashing in, or they try something different, which runs the risk of being viewed as inferior to their earlier work by some people. Once a band/act/writer is aware of this, if you factor in that anybody who makes anything, from a sculpture to music to a DIY project to baking a cake, is going to suffer some insecurity (at least if they are trying to do a good job) then their music can su
