A couple of years ago I learnt that the Fairlight synth, early
sampler, was created in Sydney (Fairlight is a suburb) so maybe
Sydney is the spiritual home of much of today's contemporary music
(scary!)
On 03/06/2008, at 3:52 AM, Kowalsky wrote:
Frank, i'm sorry to disagree with you again, but there is no logic
in saying something would be this way if...
You can say that kraftwerk had no influence, or that they
influenced but not as much as people say or that they did
influenced a lot. These 3 cases should lead us to a real debate.
The "if" leads nowhere.
Kw
On 02/06/2008, at 14:05, Frank Glazer wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Thor Teague
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To play devil's advocate, that doesn't prove that if Kraftwerk had
never existed, Detroit techno would not have existed.
That was exactly my point. If you ask me, it proves that Detroit
techno would have existed even if Kraftwerk had not existed, because
Juan said he was already doing techno before hearing kraftwerk!
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Frank Glazer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
remember that argument we were all having recently about whether
techno would have happened without kraftwerk? the comment that
sparked it was "Juan and Kevin and Derrick might have had had some
difficulty without the Germans" (this was in the context of who
belongs on a techno mount rushmore alongside the belleville three)
well, i was just reading an article from the march 1999 issue of
(now
defunct) muzik magazine. it was an ongoing feature in which they'd
have a techno personality come up with a list of favorite songs
for a
hypothetical mixtape. juan atkins was featured in this
particular "do
us a tape" and he said this:
"track 9: kraftwerk - numbers - warner brothers: I froze in my
tracks
when I heard this. It was on the radio one night and I was like
'what
is this?' **I was making music already, doing totally electronic
recordings and the similarities freaked me out.** I used to go
to the
music store and just play around with the synthesiser. I think
it had
the same impact on music as the electric guitar did when that was
introduced. You could do anything with it - your imagination
was the
limit."
--
peace,
frank
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