UTOPIAN REALIGNMENT
An Exploration of Explorative Forms of Dance Music
With Robert Shea

	This month's is going to be ridiculously short, fortunately not due to 
the lack of great music available to write about, but due to the fact that I am 
in the midst of a relocation that has temporarily made it difficult to properly 
compose appropriate reviews and musings on this month's selection of 
amazing new sounds (and with limited time to make it all make sense!). The 
details of my situation will be disclosed at a later date and the results will 
put me in an even more advantaged position for exposing and supporting 
exciting music and those who are making it.
At this point in time I would like to sincerely thank all the people who have 
enriched my musical life over the years, and who give me ecstatic reasons 
for looking forward to the future. I would also like to thank all those people 
who have exposed me directly to so much wonderful music, so that I can 
maintain my ability to expose others through my writings in Streetsound, 
Index, Discotext and especially this column in this wonderful little paper, 
XLR8R. Special thanks for giving me the spread to really let my ideas, views 
and reviews run amuck!
	For ten years now I have been deeply entrenched in the pursuit of 
sonic excitation, through writing, publishing, DJing, producing, promoting and 
especially listening, and never in all those years have I been so truly 
inspired by what I hear as I am now. To name but a few (and risk 
overlooking others equally worthy) I can site as prophets of promise and 
posterity, artists and labels such as Banco De Gaia, Exist Dance, Orbital, Phil 
Western, Eat Static, Planet Dog, Cabaret Voltaire, Space Teddy, Silent, Sven 
Vath, Outersanctum, Harthouse, Eye Q, Recycle or Die, ESP, Go Bang!, Adham 
Shaikh, Reload, Psychick Warriors, Exquisite Corpse, Vapour Space, +8, Aphex 
Twin, Astralwerks, Infonet, Tox, EXperimental, Higher Intelligence Agency, 
R&S, FNAC, Irresistible Force, Paradise 3001, Future Sound of London, 
Dominic Woosey, The Orb, Organico, Sabres of Paradise, FFRR, GTO, 
Underground Resistance, Warp, Dr. Motte, Magnetic North, Labworks, Frankie 
Bones, MFS, SubMerge, Thunderpussy, Eddy Fowlkes, Richie Hawtin, Oliver 
Lieb, B12, Sandoz, Black Dog, Brute, Lumakanda, Beyond, Hardkiss, 
Trip'n'Spin, Ralf Hildenbeutel, Pete Namlook, Apollo, Fred Gianelli, Red 
Planet, Horizon 222, Psychic TV and others. Naturally this list is only a cross 
section of who's out there, so forgive me if I have overlooked someone. Sorry 
for such a short column, I hope to make up for it next month with a mega-
stream of "pseudo-intellectual techno geek anti-soul snobbery". What else?