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Utah Saints: Utah Saints (London/PLG) ; Various Artists: Techno Mancer (Antler Subway/Caroline)

James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 21 January 1993

TECHNO IS music that gets on people's nerves. Whether pounding like metal or watercoloring like New Age, it strikes many as repetitive and cold, about as charming as a headache. It doesn't worry about stars or string sections or songs. What's more, it began its popular life in this country claiming, as those Belgian propagandists behind L.A. Style put it, that "James Brown Is Dead."

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