Hangin' With the Nintendo Generation

By SIMON REYNOLDS;
Published: January 24, 1993

For more than a year, "hard-core" has been the most vibrant dance-music cult in Britain. The term comes from "hard-core techno," a brutal, high-speed style of electronic rave music. Early on, hard-core meant bombastic synthesizer — programmed machine-rhythms and a clinical though crazed atmosphere. But the music evolved into a hybrid of hip-hop and techno, ...


A version of this review appeared in print on January 24, 1993, on page 224 of the New York edition. The online version omitted a photo taken at the Lemon Lime restaurant in New York and a photo of the duo Utah Saints.