On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 02:19, Aaron-Carl aaronc...@aaroncarl.com wrote:
Before this gets out of hand, let me say this: Personally, I have no qualms
about Dubstep. My response was not to be misconstrued as a bash dubstep
post. HOWEVER, the part that really bothered me (and YES, I'm sensitive
Before this gets out of hand, let me say this: Personally, I have no
qualms about Dubstep. My response was not to be misconstrued as a bash
dubstep post. HOWEVER, the part that really bothered me (and YES, I'm
sensitive about it) is when someone classified it as The New Detroit.
Eclecticism
Before this gets out of hand, let me say this: Personally, I have no
qualms about Dubstep. My response was not to be misconstrued as a
bash dubstep post. HOWEVER, the part that really bothered me (and
YES, I'm sensitive about it) is when someone classified it as The New
Detroit.
Both British Music Press and a lot of UK artists namecheck Detroit as
shorthand -- mentioning Detroit means you know your history, you're
'down,' you have some 'soul,' or at least you appreciate it. It goes
back to pre-Acid House times, with the Northern Soul movement.
On the one hand, soul is
