----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Phonopsia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:24 PM Subject: RE: AW: (313) Derrick May quote and the Death of Techno
> I did say 'tend' to. > Anyway, you know I don't think as much of Amp Fiddler as you do, T! True. Don't know why I even bothered to make that point, other than that I'm struggling to maintain my perception that the only kind of black music that sells is of the thug/bling/begging* variety, and that it tends to be compromised/diluted, as you say. Pop music seems to be spreading its wings, as much as it's difficult for me to say that. I still think the music industry is f*cked, and racist, but it's hard to maintain the (forgive me) black and whiteness of my notions about it. *'begging music' is a term my friend Jason coined AFAIK, to identify the overtly desperate baby-please-take-me-back R&B that dominated in the mid-'90s, which I find particularly irritating - as though it were the only sort of soul that could sell at the time. Tristan ======= http://www.phonopsia.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
