maybe i'm not a very percpetive person, but when i'm on the dancefloor, i can't tell whether the music i'm dancing to is made by a black person, a white person, or a chicken that was left in the studio. i can't even tell what city or country the music was made in. but i can remeber the lyrics of a song that used to get played years ago-- 'brothers, sisters, one day we'll walk hand in hand to the promised land'. james
For the record : the original email was in no way ment to incite racisim or from a racist standpoint But also for the record : The orig. thread re: avant guarde techno...all of the artists mentioned as being avant are white!...and to say that Detroit is in a slump or "letting people down" etc...etc.. is not only an insult to those African/American artists whose music changed the world, but also slaps them in the face by now saying the white artist from overseas are now better! Attention: Kraftwerk are amazing artists and have a style solely their own (my point here...)..{oh yeah what would you call expo 2000...) but Detroits techno influences albeit with a dab of Kraftwerk are mostly other Black musicains/artists....can we say Pfunk or George Clinton? Take for instantance ..Jimmy Hendrix, for those who appericate/understand what he did, realize : though he had many influences ..his own music was solely his own ..no one played ,produced , or had his style ..his music was not a copy of his influences...thats what made him Hendrix The truth convicts those who aren't within it..techno is not just a form of music but an ideal ! Take all your lekabush's ,corolla's and even Cox's and compare them to the innovaters ..the regular guys from Detroit who did it from their basements in mostly "Ghetto"(an overused and misunderstood word) areas with limited resorces and most importantly they did it without selling their soul to an record label/company ..... see [313] Prince speaks for more of the truth ~PEACE unto you all.... ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]