Is the main criteria for this discussion based only on innovation?? quite frankly to me what makes the music worthwhile is the emotional aspect too...
just because something hasn't been heard before doesn't necessarily make it good - good being the subjective factor here too... just wondering about the perspective.... Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I wanted to write a song that I could put on and have it play itself so we could walk off stage and smoke a fag." - Stephen Morris on "Blue Monday" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "mee-thod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [313] Let's Talk Techno > I'd really like to know how you can contemplate omitting Juan Atkins from > your list. > > I don't think people like Carl Craig, Theo Parrish, or KDJ would get the > props for innovation without Juan Atkins laying the foundation. And he's > still doing it. > > In fact, I was talking abut this the other day. And it was decided that as > marvellous as Carl Craig is , his music is not truly innovative. > > That's if we decide innovative is music that breaks boundaires, provokes > thought and advances the 'cause'. >
