On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, kent williams <[email protected]>wrote:
> I wasn't here at the very beginning but pretty sure I joined at the > prompting of Aran Parillo, who dropped off several years ago, despite being > the early champion and expert on all things Drexciya. > > I think that the quietude of the 313 list stems from a couple of causes: > > 1. Competition from other social web thingers -- Facebook, Message Boards, > etc. > > 2. Deaths in the family. Several valued former 313-ers are no longer with > us. > > 3. Detroit Techno itself. It isn't dead, but the period from 1985-2000 > was a big upheaval, corresponding almost exactly to the rise of the > Internet. There are still people in and around Detroit making music, and > even more around the world who can legitimately claim to be inspired by > Detroit, but the focus and urgency of the early years is no longer there. > > 4. Aging of the audience. It happens at different points in everyone's > life, but there comes a time when a good night's sleep starts winning out > over standing in an unheated warehouse in the dark, losing your hearing one > kick drum at a time. Juan Atkins turns 50, Kevin Saunderson 48, Derrick > May 49. > > Think about it. The Belleville 3 are at the same chronological point in > their careers where the Beach Boys were in the 1990s. Or to put it another > way, in the mid-80s, when Techno was getting going, 30 years prior was > Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis. > > The fact is, despite its pervasive influence, it is not a music to which > many 16 and 17-year-olds connect with. Older people aging out of the Techno > tribe are not being replaced by new recruits. > > Which is one reason I'm a huge admirer of Mike Huckaby's educational > efforts. He is a living link between the past of Techno and the kids that > are potentially its future. > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Danielle Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Still lurkung here too! >> On 2012-11-28 9:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm still here - writing from a train on the way from Hamburg to Berlin. >>> >>> Anyone else? >>> >>> m50 >>> >>> >>> At 2012.11.28 11:47, Marsel van der Wielen wrote: >>> >>>> how many subscribers are left anyway? >>>> >>>> and will there be a 20 years anniversary party? >>>> >>>> >>>> Op 28-11-2012 11:46, Philip McGarva schreef: >>>> >>>>> btw i haven't been lurking for like 5 years - i just resubbed. it's >>>>> good to be back! >>>>> >>>>> >>> > oh...here...:) -- FBK Absoloop/Orange 82
