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>So, is there any chance these people in the US can keep their
feelings to
>themselves? I have no idea why you hate us so much. I suspect
envy has
>something to do with it.
im not really sure about all of that. i mean, i dont like buying
imports only because im broke as hell ;) i love alot of euro
producers that make good music, just like i hate lots of US
producers who make crap. however, i do agree with the point that
US producers and deejays are often overlooked in this country in
favor of someone from europe. the reasons for this are numerous:
the misperception here of techno being a "white, european" thing
exclusively, the "grass is always greener" line of thought, and in
alot of cases the hyping of foreign musicians here over domestic
ones by the dance music press. XLR8R always does a good job of
covering lots of interesting US artists, though even they over
glamourize certain other musics (the little fantasy piece on grime
in a recent issue was more than just a little corny). even URB has
been doing alright with that, but theres those other crappy clubby
mags that (to be truthful, im not even sure if they still exist,
like mixmag US or mixer or whatever other cornball nonsense)
talk/ed nonstop about ibiza and bad music and whatnot. i guess its
probably just catering to the idea that techno is white and
european. its tough to sell techno as a working class black music
from detroit, theres not much escapism in that for suburbanites
here or whoever theyre marketing that bullsh*t to. so i can see
why there might be room for some resentment, but in this case its
horribly mistargeted. the guy should be salty at all the other
factors, not the euro deejays and producers who love the music as
much as anyone in the US if not more.
anyway, so if that cat wants to be an idiot, let him. who cares.
he certainly isnt speaking for all the hundreds of thousands of
americans who showed up to movement to see detroit deejays next to
dutch deejays. i think every single notable producer i know has
releases on euro and uk labels. so this idiocy is really contained
to just a few idiots.
tom
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