Tom Dixon, the celebrated British designer, who created iconic pieces like the S Chair for Cappellini before founding his own furniture and lighting company, and Brian Eno, the ambient-music pioneer and groundbreaking record producer, and the founding member of Roxy Music, weigh in on skin care, fleece shorts and the documentary "Muscle Shoals".
"(I'm) Stranded" had limited impact at home, but the British music press recognized it as a groundbreaking record.
But it was a revolutionary, groundbreaking record, and it's one of the few instances where people catch up to it later on".
Not that it seems to have been a problem so far: her 2003 debut Solo Star may have been underwhelming and unremarkable, save for the Neptunes-produced Crush (tellingly, the only excerpt she performs tonight), but her 2008 return was an astonishingly individualistic, even groundbreaking record.
Five years after Jam Master Jay, the D.J. who provided beats and scratches for the rap group Run-DMC's groundbreaking records, was shot to death on Oct. 30, 2002, in his recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, his business partner Randy Allen told The Daily News in an interview published yesterday that he was in the control room, and his sister, Lydia High, was near the entrance at the time.
Liana Jonas of Allmusic wrote that the song's commercial success "helped bring electronica music into the limelight", calling it a "groundbreaking recording".
Jam Master Jay, the D.J. who provided beats and scratches to the rap group Run-DMC's groundbreaking records, was shot and killed last night at a recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, the authorities said.
The Outlaws had been one of Joe Meek's groups, and the producer – famed not just for making groundbreaking records, but for his overly close interest in his young protegés – offered Chas the chance to be more than just the arranger of his songs.
Horn produced much of the soundtrack to the 1980s, including albums by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Seal as well as sonically groundbreaking records such as Grace Jones Slavee to the Rhythm and Yes's Owner of a Lonely Heart.
In May 1959 he was part of a groundbreaking recording: John Coltrane's Giant Steps, described by The Penguin Guide to Jazz as the saxophonist's "first genuinely iconic record".
