Bites: US Drug Users Face Being Rounded Up: Busta Rhymes' Super Surveillance Society: Techno's Funky Future: Madonna's True Blue Meaning: Air's Future Evaporates

"The super surveillance is here. It's goin' on everywhere but New York is out of control. National Guard everywhere, military suit, 'nuff (enough) gun. 'Nuff military trucks, you seeing that shit all over New York. Cos (because) the Middle East, the people that have done this, they ain't white, they brown like me." (7 Magazine)

US rapper Busta Rhymes suggests "a lot of truth is being concealed" about 9/11 and "until we some truth, I ain't picking no sides."


George Bush explains why US authorities will be concentrating more on "identifying drug users who need treatment but are unlikely to seek it."

http://www.upi.com


"It's less tortured now, more funky. That aggressive, industrial wall of sound techno's been associated with in the past is long gone. Techno's getting funkier and house is getting harder so there's a lot of common ground." (The Standard)

Techno's future is funky, says Billy Nasty.

http://www.techno.de (Techno Online, Germany)


"Just as I didn't know the world of big mega studio complexes- I knew the world of the home studio- the new kids don't even know the home studio, they know all-in-one boxes and laptops." (Future Music)

Richie "Plastikman" Hawtin predicts massive changes in electronic music making.

http://www.futuremusic.co.uk


"Madonna is a role model in the sense that you have got to go out and get what you want in all areas of life and that could be applied to Conservative politics." (The Standard)

Madonna's Mother-in-law Shireen Ritchie suggests the Us singer is a "role model for female Conservative MPs".

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk


"Vain, vacant, lazy, cheap and exploitative. Everybody hurts alright." (NME)

Air's new remix album Everybody Hertz fails to impress NME's Ted Kessler.

http://www.nme.com
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"We've got a problem in this country -- too many people use drugs." (United Press International)

George Bush explains why US authorities will be concentrating more on "identifying drug users who need treatment but are unlikely to seek it."

http://www.upi.com


"It's less tortured now, more funky. That aggressive, industrial wall of sound techno's been associated with in the past is long gone. Techno's getting funkier and house is getting harder so there's a lot of common ground." (The Standard)

Techno's future is funky, says Billy Nasty.

http://www.techno.de (Techno Online, Germany)


"Just as I didn't know the world of big mega studio complexes- I knew the world of the home studio- the new kids don't even know the home studio, they know all-in-one boxes and laptops." (Future Music)

Richie "Plastikman" Hawtin predicts massive changes in electronic music making.

http://www.futuremusic.co.uk


"Madonna is a role model in the sense that you have got to go out and get what you want in all areas of life and that could be applied to Conservative politics." (The Standard)

Madonna's Mother-in-law Shireen Ritchie suggests the Us singer is a "role model for female Conservative MPs".

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk


"Vain, vacant, lazy, cheap and exploitative. Everybody hurts alright." (NME)

Air's new remix album Everybody Hertz fails to impress NME's Ted Kessler.

http://www.nme.com
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