I'll solve the mystery. A cat I knew a while back purchased Detroittechno.com. He does in fact also own Detroittechno.org. He's a web designer and plays around on a bit of gear, although to my knowledge he's never completed a track. Just turns knobs in his free time. Originally he was going to hook up the page with tracks and mix sets from all his friends, and promote general techno and house events in the city. Needless to say everybody was excited as this domain name could attract ALOT of attention. Dan Sordel (spelling??) of Motor searched and got the owners contact information. He approached the said owner and offered a few thousand dollars (I believe) to buy the domain. Knowing the name was important the owner did not sell, but they entered into a business agreement to do the page together. Now this next part of the story is ruff. This cat is an old friend of mine. We aren't that close anymore, though we still talk from time to time. It isn't a direct result of this Detroittechno.com thing, but the situation is representative of a pattern of behavior. No more specifics said about that. He had just about every good web designer in the Detroit area offering to design the page. He had at least a dozen qualified offers and submissions thrown his way. Didn't accept any of them. He wanted to do the page himself. He was of the idea that the page had to completely blow your mind when you went there. None of the designs met his "standards" while in the meantime the page went completely untouched. I tried to let him know that it IS just a web page, and that web pages don't bring about enlightenment and we should go ahead and design something. He got me involved with many people, including Dan from Motor, with this project and in the end did absolutely NOTHING. You don't know how much time I've had repairing stupid little situations and getting out from under that damn project. It was talked about and talked about and in the end NOTHING happened. It could have been an excellent vehicle for the current generation of new Detroit producers. It could have been a medium to tell the world (SHOW the world) what's really going down in Detroit. As of now it seems it mine as well be a squatter who owns the page. What will become of it, I claim to know nothing. All I know is that even mention of it in the circles of friends I travel in has become taboo. Peace-
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