In a message dated 9/02/00 2:46:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't think there was too much more to it than described in the book ... > Plus 8 had the fortune/misfortune of being the first Caucasian Detroit-area > techno acts to get noticed (not counting KGB on Techno 2, I guess). With > that position, and a marketing misstep (stamping their white labels with > "The Future Sound of Detroit") came a lot of resentment from the > African-American techno producers and DJs in Detroit.
As I see it, *The Future Sound of Detroit* could have been another way of paying tibute to the original Afro-American innovators of that techno sound. However, I can see that by taking a literal interpretation, misunderstandings could have occured. A_Zed
