AGE OF WONDERS III REPLACING MUSIC SERIES

AGE OF WONDERS III REPLACING MUSIC SERIES

French filmmaker and producer Quentin Dupieux had been putting out gritty techno under his Oizo alias for just a couple of years when he created a series of low-key ads for Levi’s that featured a yellow stuffed animal-Flat Eric, named in tribute to the label manager of Paris’ F Communications-headbanging in time to a maddeningly repetitive, irresistibly syncopated bass-and-drums groove. Oizo’s “Flat Beat” one of the most indelible songs of 1999. Here are those picks.Ī sock puppet and a few hours on a Korg MS-20 are all it took to make Mr. Our 250 Best Songs of the ’90s list included several one-hit wonders, from the bucket-hatted New Radicals to the top-hatted 4 Non Blondes, but there were still more staff favorites that didn’t make it. Many of the era’s one-hit wonders were bland copycats of whatever was huge at the moment, but some were genuinely unique or too damn fun to ignore-glitches in the matrix marked by incomprehensible mumbling and sinister swing rhythms and videos starring girls in bee costumes. Awash in cash, big labels took big chances on artists that didn’t necessarily scream longevity but at least had a single undeniable melody or catchy lick going for them. This was the age of corporate radio consolidation and the CD boom-and, crucially, before file-sharing and streaming took off-so major distribution channels had tremendous power over precisely what went into listeners’ ears. In the ’90s, it felt like nothing was too odd, too goofy, or too random to be the most popular song in the universe.

Age of wonders iii replacing music