Well, there is an audience for it but in small pockets around the nation
(and it is a BIG nation). We had a _very_successful pirate radio station
here in Minneapolis that played house music 24-7 but it was shut down by
the FCC goons. Well, it wasn't interfering with anyone's signal but it was
pulling a large audience away from the legal "alternative" station. What
was played on that station was primarily mix tapes from area DJs who played
mainly Chicago house but there were all kinds of house being played - from
Madonna remixes to stuff that bordered on "progressive" house. But it was
the US house stuff that drew them in.
It's hard for US house or techno to gain a foot hold because most kids
today think Oakenfold et al. started it all in the UK. I've read several
interviews where the artist (a Detroit techno artists - might have been
May) said that maybe they dropped the ball by going overseas and not
nurturing the US scene - meanwhile hip-hop came in and stole the wind from
their sails (and sales). So then a few UK artists repackage it and sell it
back and voila - techno and house are UK imports. I think this could be
said for lots of house music producers as well. Chicago impacted - Detroit
flew the coop - NY is too insular for most of America. UK was open to it
and figured out a way to market it while "grunge" was stamping away across
America and everyone wanted to live in Seattle.
Maybe I'm wrong...
MEK
"Cyclone Wehner"
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Subject: Re: (313) heads-only
techno? nah
05/05/03 04:42 PM
I was talking pure US house/garage, not trance or offshoots. A lot of
people
lament the lack of a US audience for that. I even read it in a Frankie
Knuckles interview. It's very consistently stated. Of course I realise
trance/progressive has charted.
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>From: spw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Cyclone Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 313 Detroit
<[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: (313) heads-only techno? nah
>Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 7:00 AM
>
> Dance music is already pop culture in America, look at Dirty Vegas for
> example.
> Detroit techno is not.
>
> on 5/5/03 2:53 PM, Cyclone Wehner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I think they mean in terms of impacting on pop culture in the US in the
same
>> way.
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