----- Original Message ----- From: "robin pinning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DJ Entropy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: Re: (313) Hip Hop and Techno (was 8-Mile)
> aha, we differ in what we call "Rave"....uk vs. us culture. > > fair enough... Yeah. Pump Up the Volume 3 covers this all pretty well I think. Time to fire it back up? :) Re: Cyclone and Stewart's comments about hip hop as an entry point, I think it's safe to say that techno has a number of different 'gateway' styles, from hip hop to industrial to trance or whatever you may be exposed to that gets you into the beat, since most people don't hear techno right outta pop music. While I can see that many techno converts have come from a hip hop background, I'd be inclined to side with Cyclone that especially today, it's not terribly in-favor in the hip hop world. Even in the past this is true. The hip hop scene is just so much bigger than the electronic music scene (at least in the states, which is kind of what this discussion was about) that if a few people 'convert' to techno it doesn't mean much about the mass attitude towards techno in the hip hop scene. Also, I think you'll find more people who are into techno that like hip hop than vice versa. You could probably even say that more white hip hop fans come to techno than other ethnicities. Whatever, my point was that hip hop culture *can* be pretty exclusive, and it's just as inane there as here... Tristan ===== Text/Mixes: http://phonopsia.tripod.com Music: http://www.mp313.com Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Mix in mp3, 'Live in Iowa City' available for a short time from http://phonopsia.isoprax.com
