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| Didge-Ital | ||
| Digital music. |
| His jovial white-guy Anglo good vibes stretched like electric taffy - arroooooh, werewolf noises. Now Bing was making ghastly bub bub bub backward croonings, like a sucking chest wound. .. "The music? We call it didge-Ital … dig-Ital, seen, D.J. Ital…Mash it up right on the ship." Yeah. They were doing something awful to poor old Bing while he wasn't looking. He sounded like his head was made of sheet metal. |
| Technovelgy from Islands in the Net,
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