I hear more from former and current 313 list people on Facebook than I do on 313 list. Just a sign of the times. It's been almost 30 years since I got my first e-mail address, and not long after that I got on mailing lists so...maybe a technology that has been mostly superceded.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Philip McGarva <philipmcga...@gmail.com>wrote: > This article kind of depressed me, as it's mostly about the past. Sure > there are a few good new tracks on the Still Music comp, but it's patchy at > best and not any kind of real development of the Detroit sound. > > This article won't change anything. Did DEMF / Movement make any > difference to how actual house or techno are perceived or enjoyed by > mainstream audiences? I doubt it. Plus it's now about 25 years since techno > emerged - what makes anyone think that peeps will suddenly 'get' it? Are > EDM kids (I guess they're kids) into music from that era? As a teen I sure > wasn't much interested in music from the mid-'50s. > > It's great that the artists mentioned are still playing out and making the > kind of great music they always have, but that would have happened > regardless of the mainstream anyway. > > Just my 02 - this list is pretty quiet these days... > > p > >
