Hey Fab,
excellent post- good questions raised too. From discussions with some
Detroit based artists, it seems like times are TOUGH at the moment-
when things are hard all you can do is put your head down and work hard
at keeping your business alive and your people well fed- not too much
time to think about theorising concepts for the future etc. Perhaps in
the current political climate there is less desire to look into the
future either- its not a pretty sight at the moment- easier and more
comforting for many to look into the past instead?
cheers
Jason
And this takes me to the "no future (was re:future)" part of my subject
line. It seems to me that the major 313 players have totally forgone
any
research in exploring "the future" as an aesthetic concept.
Representing the
future through music is not an issue anymore, and conversely, exploring
one's musical heritage has become the focal point of many a producers
output. Take Carl Craig's Detroit Experiment project for example, or
Derrick's, Juan's and Kevins extended forays into house. And I add
also the
Timeline project and Theo's Rotating Assembly. All these for me are
evidence
of a desire on behalf of these artists to bridge the gap between
themselves
and their location in the current time-space and (between) their
influences
and the ghosts of their musical history. (These are just some examples
and I
do not intend to analyse nor list ever single 313 release of the third
millenium... I am also deliberately ignoring electro - i feel it has
become
a sort of neo-classical style of music, but that deserves a whole
another
email)
On the other hand, I feel that european producers are much more
preoccupied
with musically representing the future. They continue a long standing
tradition that dates back to New Wave and beyond that at one point
became
infected with the futuristic outpourings from detroit. At that time,
detroit
producers had tapped into the stream of music coming from europe and
re-intepreted it according their aesthetic sensibility.
If feel that now artists in detroit have forgone the futuristic
undercurrents of detroit techno to concentrating on re-exploring their
"traditional" influences in the light of an expired, digested (and
therefore
encoded and engrained) futuristic attitude. Sorry if this last
sentence is
not too clear, but its the only way I found how to express this
concept :)
many thanks,
fabrizio
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