| -----Original Message----- | From: diana potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 17 January 2003 11:47 | | Disco D lives in the NYC area, but I'm talking about | the detroit pioneers...like Wax Tax and | Godfather...what are they doing these days?
As far as I'm aware, Godfather is running a huge weekly in Detroit that broadcasts on WJLB, while spending most of his "daylight hours" working on the Twilight 76 distro operation and his Databass label. Databass is undergoing a flurry of activity, re-releasing old material as well as sourcing stuff from various other artists (eg DJ Assault) to put out. We had Godfather over to the UK ourselves, twice, in 2002, and he is playing more and more frequently in mainland Europe. It's interesting because at the moment there's a growing interest in the outside world about the Detroit booty scene, and I remember a few years ago, when I first got into it (in fact, I was talking to you and Ish about it with Mark Sharwood-Walker in some sushi restaurant!), that it was very obscure but very "fertile". Nowadays there's a general decline in the quality of music being made, but bizarrely this is coinciding with a surge of overseas interest & booking. To many people overseas there's no distinction between "booty" and "ghetto tech", but to me there is; I classify more modern output as "ghetto tech", where there's more of an emphasis on looping rhythms and basslines, and maybe sampled vocals; while stuff from the "golden era" of the 1990s, from Splack Pack to Goon Sqwad to Stone Age, which is more lyrical and less like Direct Beat reject material, as "booty". Because the older "booty" records are so hard to find, though, the modern "ghetto tech" sound is gaining a lot of ground, and the whole business is keeping Godfather pretty busy right now. Don't know about Wax Tax though! Brendan
