Eamonn Forde - 1999: The Year The Record Industry Lost Control Condition:New Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod

Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod

As the third Softies album

but the addition of the 77 rhythm section across six songs

ultimately claiming and embracing his whole self

or as Byrne puts it

Eamonn Forde - 1999: The Year The Record Industry Lost Control Condition:New Gan-ya Ben-gur AkselrodIt was supposed to be just another bumper year for the record business. The industry was firing on all cylinders and growing exponentially; CD was king and bringing in phenomenal sums of money. The good times, culturally and financially, were rolling. Yet by December 1999, at the dawn of the new millennium, a bomb had been set squarely under the core business the arrival of digital as we know it today. The story of 1999 is one of control: who had it,