Re: [313] mills & metropolis

2000-09-02 Thread Andrew Chuter
Metropolis is a masterpiece and a great movie to put techno music over the top of. For a start, it's a silent movie, so the visual element is designed to tell the story by itself. Second, the theme being technology lends itself to techno music. At a party about 5 years ago in Sydney I played a se

Re: [313] techno books/postmodernism (was UR in Europe)

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew Chuter
To my awareness there has only been one book that has dealt exclusively with Detroit techno. That is Dan Sicko's 'Techno Rebels'. There are a handful of music or recording guides on the topic, but the only other major book I know of that has discussed Detroit techno at length is "More Brilliant th

Re: [313] Modulations + Dancing in the Streets

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew Chuter
I transcribed part of Derrick May's words from 'Planet Rock', the final episode of the BBC series 'Dancing in the Streets': 'It's sad, in the 20th century, in the 1990's, we have to still go the same bullshit route that other black artists have had to go to get acceptance. Because we're not enter

florian re-entry + travel plans

2000-07-29 Thread Andrew Chuter
hi This is Andrew Chuter, aka florian, from Sydney, Australia. I'm back on this list after a 2.5 year absence. There's some info about my music interests at: http://spraci.cia.com.au/profiles/florian.html In '98 I backpacked around Japan, the UK, and Europe with a bunch of r