Re: (313) UR live at the LimeLight

2005-10-25 Thread marc christensen
I'd guess Mills, per 14:18 "The Punisher!" 27:51 "you want more punishment?' 29:10 "It's the Punisher" besides, the sampling-scratching sounds VERY Wizard. Cheers. -marc On 24-Oct-05, at 4:13 PM, Wojtek wrote: http://basiclanguage.net/download/live%20at%20limelight.mp3 Is this with Mills as

Re: (313) friday question

2005-06-24 Thread marc christensen
My tongue-in-cheek response (to un-ruin the genre) says it already happened DJ T-1000 "The Last DJ On Earth" But that hasn't stopped folks from releasing some fine detroit techno records afterwards. I think it's obvious that it'll be the last DJ left on earth who makes the last 313 record

Re: (313) Hello 313, I am....

2005-06-16 Thread marc christensen
Since Matt has so kindly pointed out the livejournal aspect of the 313 this AM, I'll reveal the moment of shame that begins my association with 313 music. Name: Marc Christensen Age: 35 Born: Baltimore. Lived: Detroit '72-'01. Victoria, BC, Canada '01-present.

Re: (313) iPod DJ

2005-04-14 Thread marc christensen
At 2:36 PM -0400 4/14/05, /0 wrote: id like to play somewhere with sound good enough for me to differentiate between a 320k mp3 and a wav file I'd like to *dance* at a club with sound that good, too! Anyway, I still don't like the idea of computer files substituting for vinyl. Just think, if

Re: (313) that clarence g on ebay

2005-03-17 Thread marc christensen
If neither seller nor bidder are really game on doing the transaction, then all they're out is their ebay ID. Seller can simply file a non-paying bidder claim, and all they're out is a two-buck listing fee. what a har. On the other hand, it might have people's attention, now. har twice. -m

Re: (313) the most expensive techno record ever?

2005-03-17 Thread marc christensen
That's exactly it, lee. It's rare, nobody's heard it, it's got to be worth 1K! (But don't play it if you actually get your hands on one -- it'll degrade its value! Who knows, this may have been one of mr g's famous self-destructing slabs o vinyl. Bang! You're out your grand.) -marc At 9

Re: (313) one million Italian dj's fined over stupidity

2005-02-18 Thread marc christensen
At 10:45 AM + 2/18/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, btw, apologies for talking loads of rubbish yesterday. It's not everyday that alex will say THAT! Mark this date in the 313 archives! heh. -marc

Re: (313) are they serious?

2004-10-19 Thread marc christensen
Does that explain why Sean Deason is suddenly copyright protected? -m. At 5:29 PM +0100 10/19/04, Martin Dust wrote: And Sean's doing a remix *LOL* On 19 Oct 2004, at 17:20, Brendan Nelson wrote: Err, there are... 3 of them, making up... 1 band, and they've worked with... 3 producers on the

(313) By Bot or By Mouse? ( Was: (313) Emotion Electric shutdown)

2004-10-15 Thread marc christensen
Help me understand -- do we believe emotion electric got singled out by bot, or by person? Before we get too far in collectively imagining how to defeat the mega-corporate worms, crawlers, & bots by using any of the combined methods described below (graphically representing the tracklist, fla

Re: (313) This weekend's tracklists

2004-09-23 Thread marc christensen
Now that these have been referenced in another thread, can we expect to see the sets posted somewhere soon? (please...) -marc At 6:56 PM +0100 9/19/04, Tristan Watkins wrote: [313] 10th Anniversary - UK (all tracks were created by one-time [313] list participants) =

Re: (313) run dmc remixes released on sm:)e?

2004-09-22 Thread marc christensen
RUN-DMC is 313-related insofar as the same kids who were trying to bring the whole hip-hop thing into the D back in '84/85 had no trouble dropping a Kraftwerk tape into their boom boxes: It was of the moment. Though I think most of the preps thought RUN-DMC (and the dude who did the "Funky Co

Re: (313) If

2004-09-22 Thread marc christensen
Why has no one mentioned Inkster? Or Belleville itself? Or Ann Arbor? They're cities too! Sorry, alex has been such a cheeky devil in this thread, I wanted in on the game too. -m PS my vote's for whatever special "city in the clouds" that Moritz Von Oswald clearly lives in. I assume (pe

(313) fontspotting -- solved

2004-09-16 Thread marc christensen
excuse my ignorance. it was P22's Cezanne font. cheers, -m

(313) fontspotting -- more songs about food & revolutionary art

2004-09-16 Thread marc christensen
okay, anybody know the name (or a source for) the script font used on carl craig's more songs about food & revolutionary art? i've seen it in several places recently, and it's driving me nuts. cheers in advance, -marc c.

RE: (313) May & Saunderson Win Awards

2004-09-07 Thread marc christensen
It's amazing to me that the Governors' people didn't more clearly focus on the Techno then - to DEMF now connection. Making that link would have allowed them to award May & Saunderson, and opt-in *or* opt out both Atkins & Carl Craig. But sometimes people in government aren't really as good a

RE: (313) Detroit Techno

2004-09-07 Thread marc christensen
The original question, IIRC, was whether Detroit Techno (as a term) brought to mind abstract, string-laden melodies (the kind that demand emotional as well as physical response) or abstract-minimal-but-bangin' nonetheless tracks like the ones that have long made Mills famous. Of course, the q

Re: (313) [berlin spam] shrinking cities music

2004-09-04 Thread marc christensen
Let's not forget that Dan Sicko made a nice contribution to the shrinking cities project, too. It's on the website, under "working papers" IIRC. Cheers, -marc taken from http://www.shrinkingcities.com/ : "Shrinking cities are a cultural challenge to us. In the Shrinking Cities project, ar

Re: (313) downloading, peer-to-peer, etc

2003-11-04 Thread marc christensen
Full Text of Article MEK mentioned. It's funny, like techno, it uses _analog_ technology. Heh. -m The New York Times , Oct 27, 2003 pC1 col 03 (23 col in) With Cable TV at M.I.T., Who Needs Napster ?(Business/Financial Desk)(the Libraries Access to Music Project) John Schwartz. Full Text

Re: Re: (313) 'Techno' Music

2003-10-24 Thread marc christensen
The canonical history holds that it was indeed out of the marketing of the Ten Records Techno comp that the term "techno" first came to be used to describe the 313 sound and differentiate it more concretely from the sounds of Chicago's scene. But there's more than one example of May in particu

(313) Old Derrick May interview

2003-09-29 Thread marc christensen
Hey, does anyone know where to find the pre-'95 interview with Derrick, conducted over a cell phone with a (British?) journalist, where Derrick is tearing all over town in his sportscar talking about how the Detroit landscape has been a primary influence for techno? I was reading it last month

Re: (313) Detroit Cops' Behavior towards afterparty's: a conspiricy theory

2003-05-29 Thread marc christensen
Indeed, Detroit cops' behaviour towards Detroiters (or out-of-town guests) isn't exactly exemplary. IIRC, in 2001, there were nearly a dozen unarmed civilians shot dead by Detroit cops in situations where the use of lethal force was certainly questionable. (Can you count holding a rake as "be

(313) Fancy talk about Sheffield and Detroit

2003-05-22 Thread marc christensen
Speaking of Sheffield and Detroit, look at the concluding paragraph to this article I never thought much of much of this article as a whole, but it does make some sense in places. -m (from) Analogical reasoning, digital imagining / Author: Kihm, Christophe.; Penwarden, C., tr

Re: (313) iPod pictures (that work)

2003-05-06 Thread marc christensen
He probably figured that since he'd be playing a very public NYC gig, he didn't want to be mistaken for Moby... (This would be funnier if it weren't so close to likely.) And the glasses, of course, as Gary noted. What's the consensus -- contacts or laser surgery? -m At 10:03 AM -0700 5/6/

Re: (313) more demf stuff...

2003-01-28 Thread marc christensen
At 11:37 AM -0500 1/28/03, Ian wrote: > A spokesman of Kilpatrick says: "If necessary, Dickens says, the name will change to the Detroit International Electronic Music Festival, or some such variation." D.I.E.M.F.? Die M-F? Personally, I'd like to see the acronym "M.F.I.C." worked into

Re: (313) the risks of datareduced music

2003-01-26 Thread marc christensen
Not to sound critical of scientific hypothesis (because really what we have represented in the "risks" article is hypothesis, at a fairly grandiose level), but doesn't this dude's hypothesis sound a lot like the RIAA's best wet dream come true? Extending this theory, the internet is also damag

(313) How to kill electroclash (was: swayzak)

2002-12-17 Thread marc christensen
Instead of accepting the term "electroclash" (which has obviously allowed this thing to go on way longer than the music's 15-minutes of fame one-note humor deserves) why don't we steal a term from architecture and call it "Electro Revival" in the breathiest upper-class british accent we can mus

Re: (313) sub-zero

2002-12-06 Thread marc christensen
Final Cut folks that Mills recorded with, though. As for a Chris Connely connection, I just don't know. cheers, -marc At 7:21 PM + 12/6/02, Tristan Watkins wrote: - Original Message - From: "marc christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "<313 list>"

(313) sub-zero

2002-12-06 Thread marc christensen
here's a test of folks' techno history: who was sub-zero? On the Techno City Records 1989 compilation "There's no way out (of the groove)", the Subzero track "Right there that's it" gives producer credit to final cut; engineer: Jeff Mills. Is this just mills, or do folks have a clue as to wh

RE: (313) books on techno: more brilliant than the sun

2002-11-25 Thread marc christensen
I'm not about to defend Eshun's -- uh -- excesses in More Brilliant than the Sun. He has a tendency to throw a lot of stuff about, and frankly a lot of it is more like an academic version of scat-poetry than serious analysis. (I've always liked that he included "fiction" in the subtitle -- it

(313) Fwd: Music created in the Motor City

2002-11-21 Thread marc christensen
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Music created in the Motor City Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:06:29 -0500 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Re:sounding Detroit: a comparative presentation and disc

Re: (313) Fw: Techno: Detroit's Gift to the World (correction)

2002-11-20 Thread marc christensen
Correction: in my last message, I meant to say "Scott Sterling" not "Sterling Silver" heh. call it a Freudian slip. -m

Re: (313) Fw: Techno: Detroit's Gift to the World

2002-11-20 Thread marc christensen
Three categories of people ought to be honored by the exhibit: 1) the whole damn scene and taste culture that collectively led to (and helped to develop) what was then simply "Detroit House" -- that fine music we all know as Detroit techno. Without audiences deciding what was fresh, and not s

Re: (313) 8-Mile - Detroit music history

2002-11-09 Thread marc christensen
dear "techno" -- It's nice to see you can couple a good, fresh insight to a troll. Because you're right -- the old-school elitism of the NW side GQ cliques was very palpable, and has been documented well in interview sources. Your reminder even makes the self-justifying marginalization of d

Re: (313) 8-Mile

2002-11-09 Thread marc christensen
that's an excellent thing to read, sean -- the media coverage of 8 Mile, even well beyond Detroit, has been really outrageous. Witness the appearance of Eminem on the cover of last Sunday's New York Times Magazine. The studios couldn't *pay* to get that kind of treatment. And I have to say,

(313) test 2

2002-10-29 Thread marc christensen
pardon me again

(313) test

2002-10-29 Thread marc christensen
pardon me

(313) test 2

2002-10-28 Thread marc christensen
pardon me again

(313) test

2002-10-28 Thread marc christensen
pardon me

(313) Metro Area in today's New York Times

2002-10-28 Thread marc christensen
Making Something New Out of Dance Music's Past By KELEFA SANNEH LAST year, disco and new wave underwent a dance-floor revival, as electronic producers mimicked the pop songs they had grown up loving. Smart, beguiling albums by Daft Punk and Felix Da Housecat paid exuberant (if tongue-in-cheek) tr

Re: (313) Derrick May - The Mayday Mix

2002-10-15 Thread marc christensen
Now if only it were easy to *get* this disc heck. -marc At 2:52 PM -0500 10/15/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holyfunkola! love love love this disc good thing half the office is going to be out today - I can dance around now!

Re: (313) what was the first techno record ever?

2002-10-10 Thread marc christensen
At 9:40 PM +0200 10/10/02, Maarten Baute wrote: or it would be a cybotron .. liek "clear" ... or "a numer of names - sharivari" both ´82 and Maarten's correct, these are both usually credited as being the first "techno" records. Despite the fact that when they came out, there wasn't any descr

Re: (313) Dan Bell sample

2002-10-10 Thread marc christensen
)" <313@hyperreal.org> Cc: "Tristan Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "marc christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:49 PM Subject: RE: (313) Dan Bell sample > I always figured it was the intro to the Shake track 'De

(313) Dan Bell sample

2002-10-09 Thread marc christensen
anybody know who the heck Dan Bell is sampling between the last two songs of his Globus 4 -- Button Down Mind -- Mix album? the quote: "for those of you don't know much about me, i'm from Detroit, the Black Power capital of America. Some of y'all don't dig the term Black Power, well, let me

Re: (313) Whitney V Krafwerk bootleg

2002-10-04 Thread marc christensen
At 8:13 PM +0200 10/4/02, Maarten Baute wrote: Isn´t Richie Hawtin a player hater (at times)? He used to diss Dave Clarke for playing "zombie nation - kernkraft 400"... Richie would be a funny Janus-faced playa-hata' at that, since he's probably the most simultaneously adored & dissed techno D

Re: (313) George Clinton Answers

2002-10-01 Thread marc christensen
At 11:55 PM +1000 10/1/02, Cyclone Wehner wrote: From Derrick's standpoint, I think in interviews he has always been someone who carefully thinks about what he says because he knows it's for prosperity. I think the longevity of that one quote has certainly added to May's historically-consciou

Re: (313) George Clinton Answers Techno’s Greatest Question

2002-10-01 Thread marc christensen
At 8:42 AM +0200 10/1/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Legendary funkateer George Clinton has finally revealed what he thought of Derrick May’s classic description of Detroit techno as sounding "like George Clinton and Kraftwerk stuck in an elevator", in typically robust fashion. Speaking to Au

(313) test

2002-10-01 Thread marc christensen
trouble posting, please ignore

Re: [313] Drexciya and the DEMF

2002-04-15 Thread marc christensen
Amen, Fred, Amen. -m At 4:08 PM -0700 4/15/02, Fred Heutte wrote: My sense is that Dan has it exactly right. The selection board did its job, and the follow-through wasn't there. No surprise. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

Re: [313] Technical Question

2002-03-28 Thread marc christensen
Alex- this is a more problematic (and contentious) issue than you perhaps know. Streambox ripper is a program that used to do this -- but they had legal problems exactly because it could rip mp3s from streamed audio (which goes against the intent of the streaming thing not depriving the owner

Re: [313] Blade II (OT)

2002-03-24 Thread marc christensen
At 2:27 PM -0500 3/23/02, Lester Kenyatta Spence wrote: the soundtrack is supposed to meld hiphop with "electronica" artists. just imagine if ice cube was with carl craig instead of whomever... funny -- as if carl craig *needs* ice cube to do hiphop. sorry, but i pointed out in print when it

Re: [313] Interesting Indeed/ DetroitJazzFest

2002-03-11 Thread marc christensen
l line-up of theatre, dance, music, family and comedy presentations." From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: marc christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, marc christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Lester Kenyatta Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,&q

RE: [313] Interesting Indeed

2002-03-11 Thread marc christensen
Indeed, though *most* of what you've said is correct, the first point -- that the name is inconsequential -- is the only one under real question. let's not forget that the other big 3-day festival (jazz, you know, during whichever one of those labor day/memorial day weekends isn't in may and

RE: [313] Interesting Indeed

2002-03-11 Thread marc christensen
At 10:27 AM -0500 3/11/02, Lester Kenyatta Spence wrote: Did you read the full article? The reason is clear enough whether true or false. May allegedly did it to prevent the "sale" of the festival to a foreign entity. And clearly, where most are concerned, Carol Marvin counts as a foreign ent

Re: [313] 313 pops up

2002-02-23 Thread marc christensen
At 6:21 PM -0800 2/22/02, Dan Sicko wrote: hehe. you'll see it everywhere if you try indeed. it's quite frightening, once you're tuned into the numerology. when we stayed in Edmonton, Alberta (which reminded me a *lot* of suburban detroit - yowch!), the hotel we stayed at inexplicably

Re: [313] UR at Porter Street

2002-02-22 Thread marc christensen
Shame on you for making me even more homesick than i already was! I used to live five blocks from porter street (that's two blocks from Parabox, mind). Now i live about 5,000 km away! i can't believe i moved. -marc At 2:57 AM -0500 2/22/02, Alexandres Lugo wrote: This was by far one o

[313] unpaid DEMF bills (was: Never mind the bollocks...)

2002-02-19 Thread marc christensen
d by the DEMF/PopCulture folks. In short -- if the media hasn't mentioned this yet, we can correct that, folks. Email me privately, please. -marc christensen At 11:53 AM -0500 2/18/02, scotto you know wrote: From: Kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Interesting to see if they can get anyon

Re: [313] any mention of Carol Marvin = trolling

2002-02-18 Thread marc christensen
there probably aren't four people on this whole contentious list who will defend Carol Marvin. hopefully, we can all accept that mock-praise in her name is just trolling, ignore it, and get on with other topics. cheers. -m. Slated for release this week, a hearty congratulations to those w

Re: [313] the Music Institute

2002-02-18 Thread marc christensen
Dan & LKS- it doesn't help the 1315/1515 confusion factor that Chris J. (like i can spell a last name with two nonsequential "z"s in it!), who owns 1515, was also around parties way *before* 1315 hosted the MI (which was two blocks away). Dan's book hits on that relationship. NRR: The oper

[313] test, please ignore

2002-02-11 Thread marc christensen
test - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [313] Ishkur's guide to electronic music

2001-07-26 Thread marc christensen
but lauryn g obviously didn't explore the site far enough to find this: http://ishkur.com/exposes/articles/t1000.htm for *this* list, i'd claim this page as funniest. -marc At 10:33 AM -0500 7/26/01, miss lauryn g wrote: that...HANDS DOWN...was the funniest thing from the site. ;) --

Re: [313] kenny larkin mixes (and others)

2001-07-14 Thread marc christensen
Does this mean that the main stage performances from DEMF 2001 *ARE* available for listening somewhere? (Where, where, where?) -marc At 4:38 AM + 7/14/01, Michael Kim wrote: unfortunately, Kenny and Stacey weren't broadcasted on the main stage so you can't listen to their sets. also unfo