We tell it here every day ;-) There have been a bunch of
documentaries of wildly varying quality about Detroit Techno, and no
one gets it exactly right. Which is why it's such a joy to visit
Detroit and hang out and go to parties -- it's always something
different than what you'd expect based on media portrayals.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:14 AM, David Powers <cybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually... you just reinforced my point... He made it sound like
> HOUSE is a purely Chicago thing, and techno is what happens in
> Detroit. But Detroit producers have made, and continue to make,
> brilliant, original house music in their own right. Not just copying
> what Chicago did, but doing their own take on things.
>
> That story remains to be told, I think.
>
> ~David
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM, kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Except of course Terrence Parker spoke about the importance of the
>> influence of Chicago House on techno.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:59 AM, David Powers <cybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Carl Craig doesn't like Country & Western... :-(
>>>
>>> It's interesting to see how overlooked house is in that video, almost
>>> like it didn't exist! Not even a tiny mention of Moodymann...
>>>
>>> ~David
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Wibo Lammerts <wibo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Wow. First footage ever of Derrick in (his) studio?
>>>>
>>>> It's probably from around 1999/2000, we - technotourists - were in
>>>> Detroit in 1999, and that was at the height of the Sony/UR thing.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> W
>>>>
>>>> 2011/10/4 Patrick Wacher <pwac...@gmail.com>:
>>>>> Just noticed this old ('97+/-) documentary on TP's YouTube page:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://youtu.be/SYSagw7v4dU
>>>>>
>>>>> Its even got Richie pre-hair.
>>>>>
>>>>> - P.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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