Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 8:31:30 AM, a knob was tweaked and out came: cac> please elaborate more on what you mean by "futuristic" as I found P-Funk very cac> futuristic, it is very conceptual in its take on Black American identity, cac> spaceships, re-worked nursery rhymes etc. And the music is the soundtrack to cac> those ideas.
I think P-Funk was certainly progressive . . . but when I say "futurism", I suppose I mean it in a more sci-fi context. Clinton's take on things is . . . hmmm . . . more cartooned than what I think techno is about. Funk is bop guns and atomic dogs, whereas techno seems to think more seriously about a real tomorrow. cac> Let us not forget Derrick May's famous quote that Detroit Techno is "George cac> Clinton and Kraftwerk meeting in an elevator." Right right, but neither are techno. You take Parliament's funk and Kraftwerk's futurism and then stir . . . May was saying that neither sound was techno all by itself. Anyhow, musical definitions fail as often as artistic ones too . . . I was only outlining a way to describe techno, and had no intention of trying to corral it into a verbal mold. ------------- Brian "balistic" Prince http://www.bprince.com - art and techno --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
