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From: Fred McMurry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, February 23, 2001 7:44 PM
Subject: Re:[313] Detroit Techno Artist


>Ok, this may prove to be a good topic itself (trying not to sound like a
>school teacher but failing):
>>Maybe the reason this list isn't much
>>about Detroit artists anymore is because there really
>>aren't a lot of artists producing at high output
>>levels in Detroit,
>
>Why? What's happening or not happening in Detroit, how has the creative
>environment changed?
>
>Fred

Sorry. I may not have chosen my words too carefully. I just mean that
Detroit producers have always taken their time, generally preferring quality
to quantitiy output. Just saying: how many times can we go over the
must-have works and undisputed genius of these artists once we've covered
that ground? Therefore, we start talking more and more about the artists who
have been influenced by them from other areas and we talk about their new
stuff. We still talk about Detroit artists to our hearts content when there
are new releases to discuss, but there is a large world of people influenced
by Detroit, so there's more Detroit influenced music made outside of Detroit
to talk about, and that goes some way to explaining why we discuss the rest
of the world so much, and when we discuss Detroit artists it tends to have a
nostalgic or gossipy edge to it.

I was just trying to see if you all thought there were meaningful things we
neglect in our furvor to dissect the irrelevent.

Tristan
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Eleven mixes, one album, various tracks, pics and info here:
http://www.mp3.com/stations/313
http://phonopsia.tripod.com/
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-Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven


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