| way out west: a term that’s been fading from public consciousness since the
film with the gold fleece and Argonauts. The rise of UK dance music
in the early 1990s saw the word in mass circulation, however:
“titans” flowered like the Fibonacci sequence, a string of formidable
double-acts helping generations choose their own pulse rate. Massive
Attack, Leftfield, Underworld, Orbital… all rolled boulders across
the plains of electronica; all gave the’90s a hypo. On the prow of
some serious Pete Tong time came twelve-bore Bristolites Way Out
West: the concord of Nick Warren and Jody Wisternoff, two DJs
crackling with invention.
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