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Bandcamps fremragende artikelbase. For et par dage siden, bragte siden en feature om,
hvordan den engelske forfatter J.G. Ballards dystopier stadigvæk påvirker
moderne musik. Det gør den med eksempler
fra Fujiya & Miyagi, Thierry Müller, The Bug mv.
“Ballard hit on a rich
seam of inspiration in the mid-to-late ‘70s, turning out novels like Crash,
Concrete Island, and High-Rise which would exert a powerful influence on the
emerging language of punk, post-punk, and new wave. Groups like The Human League,
The Comsat Angels, and Ultravox were all Ballard disciples, and many quoted him
explicitly. Joy Division cribbed the song title “Atrocity Exhibition” from
Ballard’s 1970 experimental fiction collection, while Daniel Miller, CEO of
Mute Records, began his music career as The Normal with a song, “Warm
Leatherette,” based on Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash, a self-described
“psychopathic hymn” to the erotic potential of the car crash.”
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