A Perfect Circle
Judith (Danny Lohner Remix) [I](Virgin)[/I]
Public demand – it’s the mistress that all gentlemanly record companies will
gladly court, so long as there’s some way of milking some money out of the sorry
bitch. Such is the case here, a quite corkingly goth-mungous industrial
drum’n’bass remix of the last single by nu-metal grinders A Perfect
Circle. But why is it here, now? Why, the Internet, of course; it emerged for
free on MP3 a few months back, became the subject of excitable online whispers
and – hey presto! – an eager, salivating fanbase, formed not by lashings of
wildly spunked advertising money, but by the only hype that an educated public
deems worth believing: word of mouth.
So, as the last nails are pounded into
Napster’s coffin, it’s worth sitting back and contemplating, just for a moment:
are these record company guys c***s or what?
Louis Pattison