on 12/15/02 9:48 AM, Adam Haupt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are there any black techno people out that there make crappy rocktronica for > the masses and possess marketable qualities at the same time?
Why cant a Carl Craig or Cajmere character achieve pop music stardom? > Will Smith is black, but at the same time he is extremely marketable to a > majority of people. Will Smith?! what does he have to do with techno? on 12/15/02 11:52 AM, Cyclone Wehner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's the Neptunes - NERD - and Chad Hugo knows his techno and house and > it's evidently an influence. Timbaland. And if Missy's Work It ain't a > techno/electro record, I don't know what is?? > That new Snoop single From Tha Chuuuch To Da Palace has a techno feel.\ Cyclone you live in Australia. > Anyway, you can't always use record sales as a baromoter since not every one > who would go to - and enjoy - a Mills DJ gig would buy a record of his..... > I think this is something the wider music industry has yet to come to terms > with, other ways to measure success. How many people per year would hear > Mills DJ? > > Not sure if any of that made sense. Jeff Mills can only sell out a hand full a good sized venues in select US cities, Paul Okenfold on the other hand can go on a fifty state tour and easily sell out each venue.
