I think the head fatguy behind Electrofunk was called 'A.D.' and his little
vocalist friend was 'Friday Night'.

'Shakin yo ass!'  I liked that bit too.

Scott Mc

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From: "Tom Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "313 mailing list" <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [313] C4 show last friday (was Maestro)


> Speaking of dance music on the screen, I actually managed to catch that
> 'Around The World In 80 Raves' show on Channel 4, UK last week - the one I
> posted about beforehand (normally I post about these things then
completely
> forget about them!).
>
> Anyway, these Brits who are travelling around America sampling its dance
> scenes visited Detroit (amongst other places) on Friday's edition. Before
> they reached the city they had had their heads filled with stories of how
> dangerous it was, loads of murders etc etc, and frankly, most of them were
> sh*tting themselves as a result. When they got there they were shown first
> visiting the office/studio of Electrofunk Records to get 'clued up' on
> ghetto-tech (none of them had heard of it before), then the guy from
> Electrofunk (big fat bloke - name anyone?) took them to a club playing the
> music. Didn't catch the name of the place, but most of the Brits' eyes
were
> popping out at the sight of people bumping & grinding to - you guessed
it -
> 'Ass'n'titties' (!). One of the women was a former stripper herself,
though,
> so she got right in there and was a big hit with all the local guys -
> unsurprisingly. At the end of the (pretty short) segment the Brit
contingent
> were clearly relieved not to have been mugged or murdered and were
burbling
> on about how everyone they met in Detroit was 'actually really nice'
(shock
> horror), but to the viewers the overall picture presented of Detroit was
of
> a dangerous city populated by leering, pawing fat blokes making stupid
music
> about womens breasts (No, please don't let's start a thread about the
merits
> or otherwise of Assault/gehetto-tech). Oh yeah, at one point the narrator
> referred to Detroit as "the home of American techno", but that was it.
>
> So there you have it. Anyone else in the UK catch it?
>
> TOM
>
>
>
> > I came across Maestro - a documentary about the history of the
underground
> > music scene which is currently in production - on the deephousepage and
it
> > looks like a really interesting project. Check out the details at
> > http://www.maestro-documentary.com/index.htm. I did notice, however, a
> lack
> > of presence of the detroit pioneers, and was wondering if anyone had any
> > thoughts or interesting info on the project or the omission.
> >
> > funkus :o
> >
> >
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