In a message dated 4/12/00 6:32:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << It's interesting that UK dance mags seem to have now all gone into Ghetto Bass... >>
Not just UK. Spin, Details and Rolling Stone US all got on the bandwagon last year. Thank God the hype is over now. I think that white, middle-class prurient interest in stereotypical Black salaciousness is part of what fuels "ghettotech" (as well as driving mainstream rap and r&b sales into the millions), along with the sense it makes: Detroit is a ghetto city right ? So here we have ghetto music. Now THAT'S a journalistic hook. What could be simpler than "Ass & Titties" ? None of the contradictory preppy Black world-travelled educated romantic electronic futurism (and in UR's case, cultural terrorism) of Detroit Techno. Intelligent brothers ? Perish the thought. Sicko was telling me during the course of his writing "Techno Rebels" that his editor couldn't believe that all these preppy, college-bound, Italo disco-listening, standard-English speaking Black kids from well-off families were in Detroit in the 80s. Fuck Charivari: where were the guns and drugs ? Say Nice Things About Detroit. a. www.puresonikrecords.net
