yeah fair... massive connections between house and techno, and that is
the way i like it too! But just for the record on a historical
timeline, the earliest detroit techno things like A Number of Names and
Cybotron and early Model 500 took more from european sounds than they
did chicago house, and pre-dated a lot of chicago house actually.
"Clear" (1982 !) was not a debt nor offshoot of chicago house.
Chicago house (then and even now) still holds disco deep down in it's
heart, where when Juan started out there was moreso a self-conscious
rejection of that that kind of ethos in his early work. I know you
know this Kent, but just in the interest of the public record :)
semi related, came across this interesting bit of writing about music
owing to Kraftwerk, Clear was on it... naturally
http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/krautrock/mojo-kraftinfluences.html
peace
On Jul 5, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Kent Williams wrote:
Techno post-dates Chicago House; Dan Sicko mentions in "Techno Rebels"
that Derrick May and others among the originators made frequent trips
to Chicago in the 80s to get records. Maybe 'offshoot' doesn't do
justice to the creativity of Detroit artists, but it's not like
there's no connection between house and techno.
For that matter, there's a lot of Chicago house tracks that sound
pretty techno, and Detroit Techno records that sound pretty housey.
In fact if there's a dominant style among DJs in Iowa it would be to
make no distinction between Chicago and Detroit records. I hear house
DJs play techno and vice versa every time I go out.
On 7/5/05, dave cronin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
jeez. where did they find that guy? that's like the
worst music journalism i've ever read.
the article is pretty much pointless, and basically
only good to point out how misinformed the author is
(techno ranges in bpm from 120-125 bpm? techno is an
offshoot of chicago house?)
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