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Precisely. So much absolute shit around then. House and it's various offshoots was no longer interesting to me, it had gone back inside and the same old suburban club conventions - dressing up, drinking, more coke than E - were starting to become the norm. (OK, with the odd notable exception).
Leftfield, Underworld and Orbital were just about the only thing interesting in 'Electronic' music for me. Oasis took all the Creation bands I'd been into 6/7 years previously and tore it all up, the 'Indie band manifesto' - being coy and saying fuck all in the press, not wanting to sell more than ten records, not wanting to be massive....
Aside from Primal Scream I guess who always said they wanted to be huge (as did The Jesus and Mary Chain before them) and I suppose they did get big with Screamadelica, but even that wasn't household massive.
I remember hearing the demo version of Cigarettes and Alcohol and thinking 'Fuck me, they've distilled it all, every bit of it'