On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:40:52PM +0000, laura gavoor wrote: > With a tag line of: Ford Focus...Detroit Techno sponsoring a Moby > tour...what do you suggest? > > Shall a Mike Banks or a Juan Atkins for example, sit back and let someone > else make his money and benefit from their efforts while they are > quintessentially excluded and pushed aside. What kind of juveniles do you > all think created this music and mentality? These are grown men and women, > with families to support and REAL bills to pay.
Would Mike Banks do a tour sponsored by Ford Focus? > It is simply not in our nature, nor in the nature of the culture of > aggressive creative individualism/techno to simply lie down and take > a fist up the rump. Can we try at least to approach this as grown business > people. After all, 313 CREATED this business and now the majors and stupid, > tagalong "bad" white people wish to exploit it and us for the sake of the > dollar. 313 created what? Electronic dance music was not created in Detroit. What if people started saying that black, American people have no business sampling or being inspired by Kraftwerk? -- :: atomly :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.atomly.com | http://www.mp3.com/atomly
