I think that this list, along with trips to Youtube to watch old clips of The New Dance Show and The Scene are really the only things keeping me connected to Detroit nowadays. I haven't lived in SE michigan in nearly 11 years now and have yet to come back to visit. I don't have a FB or Twitter account (Myspace was it for me), so this list has kept me informed of new releases and whatnot. Just want to say "thanks" to everyone on here.
________________________________ From: Jójó [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 1:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: (313) Defining Detroit I've been a long time 313 subscriber. Then got a few years off, now I'm back. I must say I like the list to be "low traffic", as it gets more specialized and not so noisy as it tended to be in the past. All in all, I must say the list has done a wonderful job of self-regulation. I guess in our hearts everyone knows the list allows for some freedom, and we try to use it wisely. It's still a pretty high quality list, in my opinion. On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:30 PM, kent williams <[email protected]> wrote: 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my first e-mail address, and not long after that I got on mailing lists so...maybe a technology that has been mostly superceded.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 <[email protected]> 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
