Space Cowboy
Nicolas Destri is the Steve Miller of electronic dance music.
Give him a familiar guitar hook, a dumb lyric any 14-year-old could have composed in his sleep, and a rhythm track that can get the back rows rocking and he'll make a hit club single, or at least a close facsimile. Destri has more tricks at his disposal than Miller did, which means he can sound like a the 14-year-old kid who made up the dumb lyric in one song ("I Know What Girls Like"), a smooth loverman in another ("Talking in Your Sleep"), and your average cyborg in yet another ("Music is My Life"). "I saw your video in 1983," he says in his tribute to the Buggles, which rips off their song without citing their name in the songwriting credits. "That's when I decided that's what I want to be." A one-hit wonder, you mean?
RED MARQUEE, 7/28, 11:00 pm
