RIP. Virtually all of the (thankfully only half-accurately titled) 'Trance Europe Express' series of compilations had at least one track from a Detroit born and bred artist, even the 'Berlin Unwrapped' one!
We need more people with the vision and also crucially the business acumen he had, who like the music we like. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Earle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2007 21:04 To: [email protected] Subject: (313) R.I.P. Rob Deacon (Abstract/Sweatbox/Volume/Trance Europe Express) Rob Deacon has died aged 42 in a canoeing accident. The Guardian has Rob's obituary today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2187245,00.html "Who's he then?" you might ask. Abstract Magazine? Sweatbox Records? "Volume"? "Trance Europe Express"? "Trance Atlantic Express"? (You know - the one with all that Detroit Techno on it) I owned something from nearly every incarnation Rob had a hand in. While I never knew who he was, he had a huge influence on my musical taste for a good 10 years or more, without me even knowing it. His own musical taste evolution clearly followed my own - brothers in timeline, as it were. R.I.P. Rob. Thanks for all the music.. - Greg
