Yes I have been reading all this bullshit about what I said or didn't >say
in my interview with xlr8r
I'm glad to see that you're reading all this. it amazes me sometimes how
many high profile people are on this list and actively reading it.
I'll still continue to speak my mind on you or anyone else who puts their
profile out for public display. When you have the fame to have a magazine
ask for a interview, you should expect people to speak their mind on what
you've said. I can't STAND IT when people tell me, "stopping talking about
dj x, he's not here to defend himself." Of COURSE he's not here to reply,
he's a dj. He's busy doing dj things. The fact of the matter is, when you
choose to make yourself a public figure, *expect* the public to make and
voice their opinion about you. In my humble opinion (and since i'm
semi-jealously not in your position, i may not have much room to talk), if i
was in the high profile position of being able to make my music daily
without the need of another job, and having people contact ME for a gig
instead of the other way around, i would do one of two things with the
comments that a little techno producer on a web list is making:
1. ignore them completely if they pissed me off.
or
2. take them to heart, and see if there is some validity to them.
You are in the public eye. You are an icon to hundreds of thousands of
people all over the world. You have the ability to pracically walk into any
club in the world and tell THEM that you're spinning that night, for the
mere fact that you are juan atkins. People simply will talk about you, and
that doesn't make them playa haters. that makes me someone with an opinion.
1) I did not go into xlr8r and hold a gun to the editor's head and >make
them interview me or put me on the cover, contrary to the haters
never said that. Like i said, being the great producer that you are, you
have the fantastic ability of people chasing after you for an interview.
and so you chose to put your opinion in a big spread in a magazine, which
then entitles me to speak my opinion in response as well.
Apparently, I must be currently doing, and/or
saying something of some status/substance to warrant a recent cover >story
on their mag.
Wouldn't disagree with this whatsoever. you *are* juan atkins, and i
certainly am not.
3)Since when did a coupla new jack playa haters (Poivrenoir,Yussel,&
>Jayson B,etc.) become the authority on this list as to who is in or >out
of touch with Detroit ?
hehe. new jack playa haters. I have a my newest song's title now.
Pretending to be an authority and stating an opinion are two different
things juan.
or that Oakee or Digweed are so commercially viable.
they are commercially viable. that's why oaktree has commercials on mtv,
and does all those faboo remixes for the popstars.
but you have more integrity than that right? or is it the fact that you are
black, they are white, and if you were white you'd be doing all the things
they do? All this time I though juan atkins was an artist, making fantastic
music and (when you showed up for a gig) putting on great dj performances,
and that juan atkins had more pride in his music than the sellout
cheeseballs. was i wrong?
I can't recall hearing any of their records (that they actually made) >on
the radio ? Maybe I'm wrong ? someone please correct me if I am.
ok, maybe i am getting confused, and i'd love some clarification. What *is*
your stance on commercial music? do you feel that they although they cater
to the masses, that you do it better? or do you feel that you simply write
a better form of music, even though its obviously not as accessable to the
mainstream?
4) And please give me credit
I'll give you credit till i'm blue in the face. I've said it a billion
times in this email; you *are* juan atkins, and that means a fuckload more
than being jayson b to the entire world of electronic music. but i'll still
speak my mind about you. that won't change.
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