i guess namechecking your city is cliche, but hey...it's natural, and i like it. it helps give the music context and identity that might not be readily apparent to most. of course it has to be done the right way and without dope music it's tired. and of course mis-representing is never cool, dutch trance trying to tie itself to Detroit is pretty offensive. Even if it actually sounded like classic Detroit stuff, it would still be pretty lame. that guy should just big-up Leiden or wherever he comes from..
ps i never get tired of the vision's "one circle"...actually i'm struggling to think of a track from Detroit that namechecks Detroit that I find tiresome... -----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Nov 3, 2006 11:41 AM >To: 313 <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: (313) Put Your Hands Up For Detroit > > > > > >I have to agree - DJs playing Scan 7's "I'm from Detroit" when they clearly >aren't. >I always thought that techno went beyond place and city. It's supposed to >be interstellar - bring you beyond where you are (or wish you were just for >street cred). >The UR remix of Kraftwerk's "Expo 2000" with the "Detroit - Germany" is >interesting, imo, because it connects Detroit with the world outside. It >looks towards Europe, something that the originators always did themselves. > >MEK > > >"fab." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/03/2006 08:01:45 AM: > >> 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 clich�, 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? >> >
