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Specifically, 1994 saw the death of the rave act (Criminal Justice Act in the UK) and the birth of "intelligent dance music" (IDM). The brought acts like The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers into the mainstream. The British "Cool Britannia" movement, which would peak with the 1997 election of Tony Blair, was seeded in the dance clubs and Britpop rivalries (Oasis vs. Blur) that exploded in late 1994. aftermath -1994-

Musically, the is defined by Kurt Cobain’s suicide in April of that year. Nirvana’s In Utero (1993) had defined the underground, but the aftermath of 1994 was a vacuum. The "Seattle sound" fractured into post-grunge (Creed, Bush) which dominated rock radio, and a retreat into folk (Elliott Smith) or electronic music. Who else felt the ground shift that year

Films released in 1994 ( Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Leon: The Professional ) defined the next decade. In the , every independent filmmaker wanted to be Quentin Tarantino. The result was a flood of hyper-violent, chronologically broken neo-noir films. Miramax, which dominated the 1994 Oscars, set the template for the "Indiewood" boom. The British "Cool Britannia" movement, which would peak