His tracks have been the subject of inspiration for many up and coming artists, especially those diving into the dark and heavy realms of distortion and bass.
LAST week's train wreck in technology stocks drew a sharper bead on predictions, long ignored by many in the hubris-heavy realm of online travel commerce, that the future belongs to a relative handful of Internet companies that can establish themselves as major brands, with easy-to-use technology to provide the best service within well-defined travel niches.
Their new album, "MTMTMK" (Moshi Moshi/Cooperative), follows the collaborative example of their sensational 2009 effort, "Warm Heart of Africa" (Green Owl), by including cameos from Amadou & Mariam and K'naan, yet veers into less absorbing, synthesizer-heavy realms.
The band became regulars at Lollapalooza and their album's move into heavier realms was in sync with the grunge zeitgeist, but they never sacrificed their most idiosyncratic charms.
In doing so, they have shown that the predictions of chemistry's central blueprint, Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table, extend reliably into the realm of heavy, short-lived, radioactive elements that do not exist in nature.
One is transparent, housing a mini-rain forest around which a metal ramp winds upward, leading out of the heavy undergrowth into a realm where birds and butterflies fly freely.
This summerlong holiday from the heavy extends into other realms of culture.
If, on the other hand, a therapist approaches these sensitive realms with heavy handedness, it can be devastating to the patients.
Although people may know his name initially from his Crookers fame, Bot has ventured far and wide into the weirder realms of heavy house music since he went solo and palled up with the Main Course squad in LA.
There's Alice Cooper taking its sound and spirit into realms of heavier rock; Suzi Quatro androgynising rock as a woman (glam is a very male world); Slade going gung-ho for the mainstream while never not looking like a bunch of blokes from the Black Country.
Heavier use of this other realm could also explain why Sebastian Stan (who plays Bucky Barnes) has talked about acting in a scene with Michelle Pfeiffer in the MCU.
