Just to comment briefly on taking what Jaun Atkins says to heart, I was
wondering
if anyone read the Spin interview with him a few years back. I lost the issue
but it
was in 1997, I think. Derrick May was also in the issue, there was a picture
of him in
a white top and pants taken in California, I think. What I remember most about
the
article, and what shocked me the most was that Atkins was upset about the fact
that
white kids shopping in his record store were buying techno but the black kids
were
buying the ghetto-tech, booty stuff.
He also was complaining about how he didn't like the way Richie Hawtin began
throwing parties. He basically blamed Hawtin for making techno music for white
people
while he was stuck in Europe, poor boy, making money.
I've lived in and around Detroit all my life (besides a year in New York)
and I am
certainly aware that race relations here are deplorable but it seemed to me
that he was
condoning the black-white hate. Yes, it is very possible that the things he
said were
out of context but if that were true I would have expected to have heard public
discussions about it. Maybe on WDET or something. Maybe there was but I
wasn't paying
enough attention.
At any rate, this article made me lose respect for him. Anyone who can
enlighten
me with information showing my impressions to be false is much appreciated.
Luna
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> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:06:42 +0100 (MET)
> To: 313@hyperreal.org
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Music
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> > I'm hoping someone will invent a button that says "Ignore completely"
> > because the "Delete" function just doesn't quite seem to cover this drivel
>
> what is it ? it´s no subject ? but YOU telling me about Theo Parrishs record
>
> and you wouldn´t like to buy it - that is something that needs to be said to
> me ?
>
> what´s the reason in telling that anybody ? what does your comment mean ?
>
> and one more 4 them who didn´t read it - Juan Atkins talks about the
>
> race-probems in music-culture on http://www.xlr8r.com/
>
> lil take:
>
> "America still has a lot of [racial] barriers," says Atkins. "There's still
> a lot of racism
> here. [I dont believe] that the music industry is any different than any
> other
> industry when you've got seventy or eighty percent white people running it.
> You're
> gonna have race issues even if they're unintentional. [Its like] what
> happened with
> Chuck Berry and Little Richard in the beginning of rock 'n' roll. Eventually
> [their
> accomplishments were] recognized, though Little Richards [veneration came]
> pretty
> late. Elvis is still bigger than all of them will ever be.
>
> "I think blacks are about to be excluded from dance like they were excluded
> from
> rock 'n' roll. It's not that [the industry and labels] are going to
> physically do it, [but
> they will] take so much soul out of it that blacks are not going to want to
> get into it.
> And that's [how] trance is [sounding] right now. It has no life, no soul."
>
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