That's one thing about Detroit culture that doesn't matter if it's techno or not. If you ever go out in Detroit, almost every person in the place is wearing something that represents their support and love for the city. Detroit hats, bags, shirts, and tattoos. It's part of the culture.
-----Original Message----- From: fab. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 November 2006 14:02 To: Robert Taylor; 313 Subject: Re: (313) Put Your Hands Up For Detroit funny you should ask that i have alan oldham-detroit is burning and suburban knight-true to the game on my current playlist and recently boogied to the vision-detroit:one circle, all tracks that namecheck.....every time i listen to those tracks i find the namechecking amusing and a little cheesy too detroit techno has namechecked detroit so many times that it now seems as its a sort of clichè, like rappers representin' their city of provenance. i just feel that's it's not "very techno"....ie. futuristic, anonymous machine music, but rather a seemingly gratuitous and crass statement in a song that would otherwise have a more subtle and implied one, or none at all. ok, flame away.....;) fab..... np: b52's - mesopotamia (more namechecking.....) >What are people's views on it namechecking Detroit?
