Maybe they all stole it from Erick Sermon? Mike
-----Original Message----- From: FRED giannelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 1:34 PM To: spw; [email protected] Subject: Re: (313) Richie Hawtin "k" Nah, Rich's stole the use of the letter k from Aliester Crowley. magic = magick music = musick musick=magick Ask Evil Clark... telepathic regards, the kooky scientist on 6/13/03 12:51 PM, spw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I deleted my inbox but I remember someone implying Jeff Mills copied Richie > Hawtin's use of the letter k for his new label. > Alan Oldman also uses the letter k with his label Pure Sonik records. > > I understand why Richie Hawtin likes the letter k as described in the book > Techno Rebels but for design aesthetics a lot of words look better using the > letter c instead of a k substitution, with a few exceptions like band > Kraftwerk > because the word is in German context and has symmetrical properties. > The label name KMS works well using the letter k especially in caps, it's a > nice short abbreviated word, the letter k is not being used as a clever > substitution in a word. > >
