HUH? You come on about people judging, but then you demurely approve of the notion that race might be an issue?
I mean- Greg could very well be right, but that honestly makes me more angry. The notion that the "Old Black Guard" would dismiss the excellent music and hard work of my white friends is despicable!!! Nevermind the fact that the whole Detrot highschool party scene that built Detroit techno was actually small group of teenagers who choose not to use the typical urban style guide and instead make a bunch of pasty white europeans their style/music markers. I do think its unfair for for the mob on this list to declare what Derrick said to be racially motivated, although given Mr. Earle's deductive reasoning skills, I certainly see where it could be the truth. But to just roll over and say- 'yeah, that must be it' to such a broad and sweeping statemtn about such a delicate topic just makes me wanna snap back with- "Yeah, typical Germans and their ingrained awareness of racial difference and subsequent guilt complex since WWII" But it wouldn't be right for me make statements like that. =P On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Katrin Richter wrote: > I guess you're right. I can understand their disappointment. > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Greg Earle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 13:09 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: (313) Derrick May quote and the Death of Techno > > I'm going to risk a major firestorm by venturing that when Derrick said > > > "... 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." > > he really meant "I don't know if there's going to be a next generation > of > young BLACK Detroit musicians coming through to follow up in our > footsteps." > > I've had discussions on several disparate occasions with Black Detroit > artists (Rob Hood, Kenny Larkin, Bone, etc.) and they all bemoaned to me > the fact that there seemed to be no young Black cats coming up through > the ranks - that all the young brothers were just interested in Hip-Hop > now, > and didn't care about Techno. They all understood why things were the > way they were, but it made them sad nevertheless. > > Obviously I don't live in Detroit so I don't know all the current > players > on the scene, but off the top of my head I couldn't think of anyone > younger than, say, Sean Deason (chime in Sean!) or Kenny Dixon Jr. (or > our own Jwan, if we stretch Detroit over to Pittsburgh :-) ). > > (One thing that triggered my thinking of this line of reasoning was > listening > to Kenny's old Dark Comedy track "Without A Sound (Silent Mix)" from > "Corbomite > Maneuver". [EMAIL PROTECTED] what a sublime track. It's going on my > Wedding > music list.) > > - Greg > >
