In response to KDJ quotes from Charles Prince... OK, It takes a bit to get me to post, but here goes... I'm so sick of this Black/White thing... Race is race, and music is music... The two are in some ways intertwined but a piece of music is it's own entity, sentient and soveriegn... Yes the founding fathers of techno were black, and deserve a great deal of respect for their accomplishment... I love KDJ's music... But I can't help but be bothered that this stereotype, and reverse racism is being carried on.... To say that to understand soul music you have to be black, because that's who it was made by and intended for, is like to say that to understand Christianity you have to be Jewish, because that's who it was made by and initially intended for (Just an anology)... The whole thing sucks.... Ideas are Ideas... Techno is an Idea... or if you look at it Jeff Mill's way, it's beyond an Idea...
Isn't techno constantly refered to as 'future music'??? What about a future that is void of a separation between races??? It seems that actually many people are still living in the past... I'm of white skin color & I love techno and house.... I ****FEEL**** techno, and house in my soul... All of it... From the hard to the deep (actually more on the deep side)... Who's to say who can and can't feel certain music just because of race, color, or creed??? I may not have lived Curtis Mayfield's life, and neither did anyone else on this planet, but I can ***FEEL*** his music... I can feel what he's talking about, what he's expressing through his music, and his voice... The same with Marvin Gaye or Chic, it's the beauty of the human ability to empathize... I would never tell Alan Oldham that because he's not white he can't appreciate My Bloody Valentine or Shoegazer music (which he loves and respects), or tell Jeff Mills he couldn't do Final Cut because industrial was a white thing... This is because I refuse to lump sentient human entities into catagories!!! Music has no color... It's like a white guy getting pissed that Carl Craig remixed 'Moskow Diskow' or 'Problemes De Amore' because they were "white musics", or to say that giorgio moroder had no soul..... Pretty Rediculous Right??? What was techno?? Who and who stuck in an elevator with a drum machine??? I think you see where I'm going.... It seems sometimes that for a group of people who spend alot of time trying to hide their identities or remain 'underground' once it comes to race it seems everyone's talking, and it's not about all their influences.... The truth is when it comes to the ***ART*** of making music from the soul, every soul speaks an individual language and who is anyone to interpret that message for anyone???? Or to tell anyone what they can or can't feel??? That's just irrational judgementalism..... Let's just get back to talking about the music we love and not who can and can't love and feel it..... My 2 cents... - sb One Ear to the Ground Communications http://www.totheground.com (Coming Soon!!) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jongsma, K.J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 5:35 AM Subject: RE: [313] Good artist steals? > > > > one of my fav music quotes is.... > > > > "Sad in the 20th century, in the 1990s, we still have to go > > thru the same bullshit > > route that other artists had to go to get acceptance. If it > > wasnt for the independents, > > if it wasnt for the small little cities, and the few little > > ghetto guys trying to make music, > > it would of never happened. Some of these guys will never > > make a dime. Some of > > these guys will be poor and die alone. But in the process > > theve been the true rengrades. > > And the true rebel always walks alone anyway." > > > > which i !think! is Derrick May sampled (from a tv doc) on E-Z > > Rollers - "Retro" on Moving Shadow. Though > > Ive never had this confirmed, could anyone shed any light on this. > > That's Derrick May sampled from the last episode of 'Dancing in the Street' > from the BBC. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
