The Grid: Boom At The Top
Kris Needs, Black Echoes, 21 September 1991
MUSICAL BARRIERS are currently falling faster than Russian statues. Exciting crossovers are making it often redundant to use terms like house, hip-hop and soul while the sad brigade who still count conformity to a box as prime qualification can be seen in the same grey, dated light as those Commie tastemakers.
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