The Detroit Techno producers I've met are by and large pretty hard-headed, straight edge guys. A few, I know, are committed church-going Christians, but they aren't so rigid as to stay away from playing clubs and parties. It seems that the mystic bent is confined to a minority of artists, the ones you cite being from the UK.
I never really know how to take it, except I have more patience for it from artists who I respect, e.g. Ken Downie. When it comes to Gen P Orridge, I think for him music has usually taken a back seat to saying whatever ridiculous sh1t occurs to him, so long as it makes him the center of attention. I've listened to a lot of it, out of deference to his involvement in several seminal projects, but once he got fake boobs, I lost all tolerance for it. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Michael Kuszynski <kuszyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, > > I've been growing to have a rather acute interest in black dog, and > the strange mysticism they keep having, the whole ov, thee, 23, etc > thing. > > Then I start digging into Genesis P-Orridge, and then I see something > about relation to Temple ov Psychick Youth, 'magick', making 'sigils' > and pretty unfamiliar occult stuff. Then there's the whole '23' thing > about making the sigils at the 23rd hour of the 23rd day of each month > and channeling their energies or wills. > > Maybe I'm stepping on some toes, or off topic, out of bounds, etc, so > reply of list if you please. > > Is a huge segment of techno run by wiccans (post-wiccans) now? Have > they taken to analog synthesizers to transmit magick? > > Sorry, just confused, and don't have a neat ribbon to tie it on, and I > try to have a neat ribbon on conceptual things lest I reach a bigger > standstill. > > Since a lot of the universe (i.e. members associated or formerly > associated) of all this topic is involved in 313, definitely no > replies needed. Just curious. >
