On 4/14/06, J.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i still have high hopes for the rest of the lineup, but such a generic > initial schedule gives a >bleak outlook....getting the feeling the DETROIT electronic music festival is dead.. this >seems just an electronic music festival in detroit, with the scales tipped more than ever >towards mainstream (and uhhh noticably white) club culture than in previous years.....
yeah, i didnt want to point it out but aside from the chicago and detroit people mentioned, i believe donald glaude is the only black artist on there. >i gotta say, all this trendy minimal techno from europe, but if you are really into minimal >techno...where is rob hood!? he has yet to actually play at the festival right? is stuff like >"ark" really more familiar to people? well, at least dan bell is there...i was really hoping for >monolake too... im pretty suprised dan bell was on there, really. his is the name that doesnt belong with the others. ive been dying to see rob hood play the festival, it really needs to happen. monolake would have been good, even a vlad delay set would have been cool and still appealed to the trendy minimalists. > another joke is "Planet of the drums"...it's aka dieselboy and a bunch of > other clubby >jungle dj's, the name of their very stale tour which has been going for something like 7 >years nonstop now. you could see it anywhere. if you had very very bad taste. yeah, they played at an "afterparty" last year. what is this, WMC pt 2 in detroit? > well whatever, but it's pretty disheartening as so far it is a reflection of > all the >trendy/empty/tired/sub-sub-genre-fied crap that gets me down about the dance music >world these days. but at least there is derrick, carl, dbx, orb, and roy davis...and i'm >curious about mark broom.. yeah, i keep weighing it and i cant decide if its not as bad as it could have been or if its much worse than i had anticipated. i know which detroit locals shouldnt be booked, if they come through with those guys as their local detroit representation, im going to be very disappointed. tom
