I'm not out of touch! But I have arguments with young Detroit fans - friends of mine - who are so purist that I wonder how they really love music at all. Their blanket disavowal of all contemporary urban music is strange. I think I am much more on the pulse than them, arrogant or not as that sounds. I refuse to get to a point where we purely romanticise the music of the past as they - some - do. How is it that an old funk record can be privileged over something new and edgy? The status of a classic is worthy but shouldn't stop anyone hearing something exciting in the present. The legacy of Detroit feeds into new styles all the time. As I am getting older I don't become more conservative, I listen to more, and seek more, that is all. I think John Peel embodied that and that's why everyone loves him still so much.
> Not sure why I didn't see this originally. > > All of the below questions are questions I ask a lot. > > In the UK techno and house are pretty niche things nowadays, especially > when talking about detroit. > > To a certain extent this is partially my perception of things. Like a > lot of us I'm in my 30s now and probably out of touch with what "the > kids" are listening to in clubs, if they are indeed going to clubs or > whether they listen to dance music at all. I think maybe this list isn't > the place to look for answers to this. > > From a personal point of view the stuff I've always liked is the slower > type of techno you mention below, never really dug the more banging end > of things. > > Anyone else or am I just an old f*rt? :) > > robin...
