On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Lester Kenyatta Spence wrote: > now this is really interesting....and i'm not tripping at all on the fact > that you had to send this. > > but from my experience.....drugs and house/techno music has never really > gone together. the music institute was pretty clean....or is it me? > The producers I know, and know about, in Detroit are almost all pretty straight edge. Something to do with living in a city where you get daily reminders of the downside of drug use pushed in your face.
My sources suggest that the white party scene in Detroit is pretty heavily drug-saturated, and that there is a lot of collusion between dealers and promoters. I can't name names and it wouldn't be right for me to do so, since this is all hearsay. I think Terrence's idea is a good one, and more power to him. I've often thought that bringing really great DJ's into an environment that won't scare the parents of teenagers could really change a lot of heads. What you choose to ingest is your business, but I think that it's tragic that something as deep and beautiful as techno is getting portrayed as nothing but an excuse for a drug party. Doubly tragic in that in some cases, it's not just alarmist hype. I don't get those warm fuzzy feelings when I have to pick kids up out of the bassbins and check them for pulse and respiration. And that's not an exaggeration -- I did exactly that a couple weeks ago.
