On 5/17/06, Matt Kane's Brain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tom, I don't think anything I say in disagreement will mean anything to you. You have already made up your mind and no amount of data or evidence will change that. The only reason I hit reply to all is convenience. I wouldn't bother to address you otherwise since I know you're not interested in a two way discussion.
what you were trying to do is nitpick an assertion that is blatantly obvious if you take a look at this year's lineup compared to any of the ones before it. i dont care if technically 50.0000001% of the artists playing are from detroit. thats meaningless. its playing around with statistics, which is a very easy thing to do if you have any brain at all. its a game. what isnt meaningless is the overall shift in focus and general lack of respect and good time slots given to the detroit artists. and you can come up with whatever data or stats you want, nothing will change the fact that this is true. the people who were angry when richie hawtin put those stamps on those records were afraid that outsiders would come in and take what they made, appropriate it, water it down, and then make it the norm. and that has finally happened, even in techno's birthplace, at its own electronic music festival. "Detroit's Electronic Music Festival" has one Detroit deejay playing a headlining slot. thats insulting, its bullsh*t, its all sorts of things. now back to the question, does everyone still assume that those people were wrong to fear this? tom
