The funny thing about this, is I live in PORTLAND, OR. And the Detroit
Techno thing was reaching HERE in 87/88/89. I remember when the records
were coming into OOZE where I was working at the time. So it's good to
know that little old Portland, OR was ahead of NY... I'd say he was
sleeping... if he wasn't noticing what was happening.
Dave
Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote:
On 3/3/06, Stewart Caig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I interviewed Frankie about 5 years ago and he told me that even as late as
89/90 the Detroit stuff hadn't really reached NY, he had not really heard of
techno and his main inspirations were still house, electro, disco and hip
hop. Don't know how much truth there was to that, but I guess to even
consider it NY techno is something of a compliment if it was truly produced
in a vacume from Detroit.
you dont think thats why he would say something like that? if he
could, he would convince the world that he invented music in general.
its just part of his trying to build himself up into something else.
and if it is true, that pops a hole in his "ive been deejaying since
the dawn of time, i have 70 billion records, etc etc" nonsense if he
was sleeping on all the detroit output that late. LATE.
honestly, theres not a word that comes out of the dood's mouth that
isnt intended to big himself up and mislead people.
tom
