System Focus: Today’s Hi-Tech World Has given Birth to a New, Gleaming Grey Sonic Vocabulary

System Focus: Today’s Hi-Tech World Has given Birth to a New, Gleaming Grey Sonic Vocabulary Cold as platinum and hard as glass, Adam Harper deciphers a new wave of dazzlingly alienated beats. In his monthly column System Focus, The FADER's favorite underground music critic Adam Harper stares deep into the internet's gloom to unearth emerging musical forms. Beats. It's a strange word for a kind of