Power has steadily made a claim to be one of the UK's most invigoratingly experimental producers, with records that seamlessly fuse the perverse horror of dark edged, hauntologically-imbued, esoterica with noise's blast and fury, and the spectral drift of gauzy ambient records.
Back in 1991, Joel Garreau, then a reporter for the Washington Post (and now the head of the Garreau Group, a consulting company), laid out this position in "Edge City," a perverse celebration of those brand-new, characterless, mega-malled, pedestrian-unfriendly places which have sprung up all over the country, beyond the traditional suburban zone.
(Maybe it's perverse of me to look for sharp edges: specialist shows are about introducing fans to interesting tracks rather than showcasing the presenter).
The style of the party (eclectic, reminiscent, amused, fickle, perverse) was the style of pleasure with an edge to it.
At the extreme, the extra financial burden might drive some companies close to the edge of bankruptcy.To say the least, this is a perverse outcome.
Going into Game 5 of the Surprising Utah Episode, there was a sense of edge-of-the-seat concern, not just curiosity, perverse curiosity.
But Cassandra, who believes cricket is the world's finest sport (and certainly an edge above baseball, whatever my American friends may argue), takes a perverse pleasure in today's English defeat.
Why does a perverse Turkish flotilla attract so much more media attention than all of the cutting edge medical, agricultural and environmental innovation?
Ballard's perverse (but tender) ecology of petrol, blood, semen, crumpled metal, is the soundtrack playing at the edge of Mabey's frame as he logs willowherbs, mosses and knotgrass.
Joanna Kavenna is one of the recent "Best of Young British" Granta selections, and her satire, Come to the Edge, a Cold Comfort Farm for the new millennium, makes perfect summer reading: pointed, perverse, perceptive – and highly entertaining.
