there is no discusion about influensces and other music, i think if i listen techno all the time i go crazy, i like music i live with music, but i love techno, i know much about it and moby at the end never did somethning revolutionary like some guys from detroit or berlin or london or paris.
m. --- Cyclone Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I respect Todd's and others view (my antipathy is to > Moby not you guys) but > to clairify: the point me and Fred were making was > that Moby has the > opportunity to point out the real roots of the music > and he doesn't, so how > can people find out about Detroit techno through his > work, then?. I gained > my music education by being into Prince as a kid > then tracing his work back > to Sly Stone, Parliament, Miles Davis, etc, because > in the few interviews > Prince gave in the 80s (anyone heard the one he gave > to E Mojo in the > mid-80s where he goes "hey y'all motor city babies"? > I have it on tape > somewhere) he acknowledged his influences, as many > musicians do. > > I guess I admire those who can isolate the music but > music never exists in a > vaccum; it reflects the values of the music-maker, > among other things. > Personally I don't think it necessarily has much to > do with musical purism. > Timbaland & Missy Elliott are like techno to me yet > they're 'commercial'. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
