We all know you're a good guy who can see the wider picture, Mr Askew! I was
talking generally. I 100 % agree the mainstream media is weird with many
underground styles - techno and house included. I used to think it was just
urban music that was marginalised but I find that quality music - house a
I think fundamentally Australian mainstream types are scared of
anything that is "ghetto-centric" - that is anything that either
glamourises/celebrates "the ghetto" (ie Puff Daddy) or exposes the
hardships/realities of inner-city America (The Roots through to DMX,
etc, etc). They say, "this is no
it's funny because here in the U.S. lots of people do feel that Jeff Mills or
May are not Black music. But then these other places try to erase their
ethnicity because techno artists lack the same kind of image as other urban
Black music. But Detroit techno is Black. I tell people who are "afrai
>>And radio has a lot to do with it, too. Urban music is only just >breaking
>>in Australia now due to a latent racism that held it back for
>>years. Universal has tried for years and years to break Mary J Blige
>>but radio will not support her because she is too them "too Black"-
>>which is a hi
