> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt MacQueen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 September 2004 21:38 > To: Martin Dust > Cc: placid; 313@hyperreal.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (313) Man Alive? > > Also i found the Chicago arguments interesting, the > cross-pollination was definitely there. For 2nd wave > detroit/chicago crossover, DBX personified it, btw. Sold big > numbers here. So did the early > Metroplex records too. It's also funny, classically, DJs here play > Salsa Life here more than they play Strings of Life. Same record > sales numbers, but different cut for the different city. > That was one of the first things i notices when i started > going out after moving here 10 years ago. Salsa Life! It's > grown on me immensely though, prior to moving here i never > gave it a second thought. But it tears up a house room big > time. Used to hear this at Red Dog, upstairs smaller room, > hot summer night sweatbox... wooo.
This is the angle I'm interested in too, which no one ever seems to talk about. Around '94-'95 I was just getting my first exposure to Detroit and Chicago other than Mills and Hawtin, which I caught on to slightly earlier. It was the DBX-influenced people that first caught my ear, like Hyperactive and Justin Long from Chicago, Landstrumm, Vogel and Todd Sines (who even released on Contact, which I'm pretty sure was from Chicago - Todd feel free to chime in here), along with DBX. All the Iowa club kids would make the 3-4 hour trek to Chicago more than anyone older, because it was easier to do underage stuff there, and obviously more good talent. These kids, most of them 14-19 at the time, were buying loads of the stuff above alongside Relief, Peacefrog (another obvious DBX -> Chicago connection by way of St. Albans), etc. Come to think of it, you can plot a circle just from Sleazy D -> DBX -> Hyperactive. In my mind minimalism was the major cross-over at the time, although few people I met in Chicago, or who spent a lot of time there would acknowledge the cross-influence. At the time it seemed to me everyone thought each was dogging the other. Which really makes no sense with all this in mind, and given the way Derrick May was caning Preacher Man for half a decade, and the way Spastik and Losing Control were played to death in Chicago. Tristan ======= http://www.phonopsia.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
