I have to agree - DJs playing Scan 7's "I'm from Detroit" when they clearly
aren't.
I always thought that techno went beyond place and city. It's supposed to
be interstellar - bring you beyond where you are (or wish you were just for
street cred).
The UR remix of Kraftwerk's "Expo 2000" with the "Detroit - Germany" is
interesting, imo, because it connects Detroit with the world outside. It
looks towards Europe, something that the originators always did themselves.
MEK
"fab." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/03/2006 08:01:45 AM:
> funny you should ask that
> i have alan oldham-detroit is burning and suburban knight-true to the
game
> on my current playlist and recently boogied to the vision-detroit:one
> circle, all tracks that namecheck.....every time i listen to those tracks
i
> find the namechecking amusing and a little cheesy too
>
> detroit techno has namechecked detroit so many times that it now seems as
> its a sort of clichè, like rappers representin' their city of provenance.
> i just feel that's it's not "very techno"....ie. futuristic, anonymous
> machine music, but rather a seemingly gratuitous and crass statement in a
> song that would otherwise have a more subtle and implied one, or none at
> all.
>
> ok, flame away.....;)
>
> fab.....
>
> np: b52's - mesopotamia (more namechecking.....)
>
>
>
> >What are people's views on it namechecking Detroit?
>
