I stand corrected; I didn't remember what year "Clear" and "Shari Vari" came out.
As another data point -- when I asked Kevin Saunderson about the large number of House, and particularly Deep House DJs that were booked at Movement in 2004, his response was "we don't really see house and techno as different things." It reminds me a bit too of the stuff written about early hip hop -- people like Grandmaster Flash thought of what they were doing as making their own kind of disco. Nearly 30 years on, any commonality between Disco and Hip Hop would seem unlikely to people who don't know the history. I don't know if any of you all get spammed by Jesse Saunders booking agent, but all his promotional materials make a big deal about him being "The Originator Of House Music", and having put out the first House record in 1983. That claim seems pretty absurd to me. A lot of people who were making house music early on took a long time to get around to making records, though they were playing reel to reel productions in the clubs well before Jesse Saunders' record came out. On 7/5/05, Matt MacQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah fair... massive connections between house and techno, and that is > the way i like it too! But just for the record on a historical > timeline, the earliest detroit techno things like A Number of Names and > Cybotron and early Model 500 took more from european sounds than they > did chicago house, and pre-dated a lot of chicago house actually. > "Clear" (1982 !) was not a debt nor offshoot of chicago house. > Chicago house (then and even now) still holds disco deep down in it's > heart, where when Juan started out there was moreso a self-conscious > rejection of that that kind of ethos in his early work. I know you > know this Kent, but just in the interest of the public record :) >
