Regarding this question posed to D. May:
"America?s entire nightlife and club culture seems to be under direct
threat from the Bush Administration right now, what?s your take on what?s
going on?"
And Derrick's quote:
?The club crackdown affects me more than the kids, because the kids seem
very chilled out and somehow unaware of what is really going on."
I'm sorry, maybe I've been living under a rock, but what are the direct
threats from the Bush Admin. to club culture?
What club crackdown is going on?
One minute he's talking about club crackdowns - next it's free speech but
I'm not sure where the connections are - have there been clubs closed in
the US as a result of "anti-terrorist defensive actions"?
>Is it just me, or does this ring the tone of proverbial nails in the
coffin?
>"... because I think this may be the last chance that we may be able to do
>it through techno music. I don't know if there's going to be a next
>generation of young musicians coming through to follow up in our
footsteps."
I wouldn't take this interview too seriously - the writer calls the
Movement Festival "DEMF" which it isn't. Then proceeds to call it a "three
day street parade" - Now I've been to one DEMF and one Movement festival
and I have yet to see any floats going down Woodward, Gratiot, E Jefferson,
Grand River, or 8 Mile so I think the writer might be getting a bit
confused or has never been to the festival and chose to equate it with
either the Love Parade or Notting Hill Festival. Nor I don't think
Detroit's finest would be too happy having the festival spill out into the
street anymore than the crowds already do.
As far as the quote of being the last chance - it's just an interview.
People say sh*t in interviews all the time that they don't mean or haven't
thought out fully because everything is on the fly. It shouldn't be taken
as gospel and Derrick is probably either not keeping himself aware of
Detroit artists or he needs to explain his position more fully which an
interview of this length doesn't allow. Plus, we have no idea what the
editor/writer edited out of the interview for the sake of space and
cohesion.
Techno isn't going away and Detroit techno will survive - maybe not in a
form similar to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 23rd wave for that matter
just like the first Detroit techno tunes weren't the same has house or
Parliament or Kraftwerk.
It's just an interview with one of many Detroit artists
but if someone has an answer for my question I'd like to be clued in if I'm
missing something
thanks
MEK
