House is year round in Detroit...techno is looked at for about a
weekend or so. the rest of the world loves Detroit Techno:)
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:17 PM, kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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