After recieving a couple of heartfelt suggestions that I should perhaps move
(to north korea or china no less), basically love it or leave it. I am not a
world class musician like r. hawtin or derrick may, but both of them have
spoken out about what is happening here in the US of a. I cannot afford to
just pack up and move to Germany or spain, perhaps people that wish people like
me to be gone could have a fundraiser or make a donation to send us naysayer,
liberty, and freedom minded people away
I had a chance to ponder what do people who love detroit techno really know
about the history of the music and the people that pioneered it. I appreciate
that most people are alittle short on memory, but history is a living thread
that art is an expression of. Anyone can throw together a techno track or a
dance music set, what makes this different. Again and again, it comes back to
soul and r&b, it is those progressions that make this music have more emotional
content than the simple expression of technology. It is the spirit of the
people that fuels the creation of art, and it is what brings me back to detroit
again and agian. And what does this soul or R&B come from? A history of
oppression that runs deep in the history of this country. It is the spirit of
the people that fuels the creation of art, and it is what brings me back to
detroit again and agian. What does that mean today? It means that when we
see Jim Crow like attempts to stop voting in black communities, we have to
speak up and say it like it is.
see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm
So anyway, I will wait for the checks to come in. Pay me the big bucks for my
records on ebay. But in the tradition of american heretics, I ain't going
nowhere.
tom
