Thought you might find it interesting that last saturday there was an
newsitem in Euronews (24 h european news channel, in case you don't
know it) about Laurent Garnier's new album. The album itself was covered
pretty hastely, but then the story went on to the development of techno
music.
The narrator mentioned the Belleville Three as the pioneers/founders of
techno music, did the normal "it's so hard to say actually when/where
techno (or electronic music to be more precise) really started" -routine,
and also mentioned Kraftwerk and Detroit funk as the big influences for
techno. IMO they got their facts pretty well covered (for a 5 minutes long
newsclip, at least :).
They had interviewed not only Mr. Garnier but also Jeff Mills. The
talked about the past and present state of techno, what it is like being a
dj (Mills compared dj'ing to playing drums: "you hit the drum, you know
it's there, but you don't look at it" :) and how the music has been
spreading all over the world in the last 10-12 years.
It brightened up my day a bit, anyway. :)
J
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