Big Black were definitely one of the catalysts that brought me from rock/punk to electronic music. It sort of went from Sonic Youth/Buttholes - Big Black/Arsenal/Rapeman - Ministry/RevCo/WaxTrax stuff - NewBeat/Front 242/DAF/Nitzer Ebb - R&S/Network/Warp - and from Network to Detroit via the Retro Techno/Reese stuff. Cybotron/Model 500 I came across a lot earlier through StreetSounds comps but I didn't know it was called techno and didn't know about Detroit by then. I think many Europeans got to techno through this route.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:14 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: (313) top ten rediscoveries for 2002. Big Black was from Chicago / Evanston, Illinois, and consisted of Steve Albini, Dave Riley, Santiago Durango, and Roland [drums]. Steve and a few others from Scratch Acid formed Rapeman, another favorite of mine, also on Touch & Go. Then he started producing other people... Breeders being one of the biggest acts. He still does his band, Shellac, now. Pretty sure they were one of the first pseudo-"punk" bands to be touring with just a drum machine. Dave was a member of Mojo's "Midnight Funk Association"; I never knew what the hell that was until years and years later, having bought Atomizer first, on cassette, in 1987 at age 14. Perhaps I subconsciously drew interest from the card into Electrifyin' Mojo > Detroit? My interest, aside from Motown, only developed as the 808 State + Biorhythms comps started floating across the water. doh! +odd -- At 9:14 AM +0000 07.01.2003, Robert Taylor wrote: > I second Big Black - weren't they from Detroit? This may be an extremely > tenuous 313-link but doesn't the cover have a matchbook or a membership card > or something (sorry, I haven't seen it in years) depicting the Electrifying > Mojo's radio show? > Re: Hall and Oates - I always preferred Maneater! -- Todd Sines icq: 11117580 SCALE:form | image | sound http://www.scalestudio.com Any views or opinions are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Channel Four Television Corporation unless specifically stated. This email and any files transmitted are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED]
