:P wrote:
american funk.
not much funk goes on in africa. funk is as african as a bag of white
castle (for you detroiters)
I suggest reading up on Fela Kuti:
http://www.jaybabcock.com/bootsyside.html
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/k/kutifela-best.html
[Fischerspooner] likes to present itself as the vanguard of a new
pretentiousness movement. - NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/arts/music/05REYN.html?pagewanted=1
Dunno 'bout y'all but I've always done my best to avoid pretentiousness.
The fashionista sillyness surrounding the whole
Hmmm, somebody is missing the joke...
e
Mark S. Krüx wrote:
[Fischerspooner] likes to present itself as the vanguard of a new
pretentiousness movement. - NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/arts/music/05REYN.html?pagewanted=1
Dunno 'bout y'all but I've always done my best to avoid
On Mon, 6 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm with you on this one, bro. This whole New Wave retro craze is alot of
posing, if you ask me. And most of this electro-pop crap these days has
forgotten the funk. Stop trying to relive the 80's, and do your own sh*t.
Err I'd say 2 things to
I don't know.
I love techno.
I love electro.
And, some of it sounds really great together. Ms. Kitten, Felix da
Housecat, Adult, Egyptian Lover...sure the label seems ill fitting, but I
also know people who will sit awake a whole night arguing the finer nuances
of the 19,000 genres of techno.
A good piece by Amanda Nowinsky in the Bay Guardian about electro-punk
in SF:
http://www.sfbg.com/36/31/art_music_electro_punk.html
And a double bonus, a nice article in the same ish about Sutekh:
http://www.sfbg.com/36/31/art_musi_sutekh.html
speaking of which, Im ready for an acid house revival.
I got an old 87/88 acid mix U need a fast connection its about 22mb's
bu proper old chicago acid house...
http://www.spr-consilio.com/rollingsound/pl.mp3
Lemme know what u think
placid
-Joe
fux
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Hey thanks Paul, Im listening right now. its soothing somehow... maybe
because acid house was my first focus when I started producing
keep em coming :)
-Joe
fux
www.emmrecords.com/teh_fux
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From: Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: :P [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Suman
Yeah cool mix!
Listening right now.
A lot of unknows for me, suppose you don'thave a tracklist?
For me acid house don't need a revival, it's just still there!
Here's a housemix from me and a friend:
http://www.syncomdata.net/mix.ram
Have fun!
http://www.syncomdata.net/mix.htm
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Adult must have a rulebook themselves, how else can you explain that all
their music sounds the same?
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From: Dale Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Sent: 06 May, 2002 10:54 PM
Subject: RE: [313] Re: Back to the Future and the Electro revival
At 12:44
This article in the New York Times makes some interesting points about
fashion and music, electro versus techno, and about retro-futurism:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/arts/music/05REYN.html?pagewanted=all
Here's a quote to fire things up:
Techno is strangling itself with its own provincial
Sunday, May 05, 2002, 6:54:38 PM, you wrote:
HS Here's a quote to fire things up:
HS Techno is strangling itself with its own provincial rulebook, said Mr.
HS Miller of Adult. People have finally grown tired of this. Electro has no
HS real sense of rules, and thus there is a lot of excitement,
Just out of curiosity, could someone point me to the Techno Rulebook? I'd
like to peruse it's pages to find out where guys like Theorem, Christian
Bloch, and Kit Clayton have gone wrong. We obviously have been mistaken in
calling their music Techno as they sound nothing alike or like any of the
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/arts/music/05REYN.html?pagewanted=1
At 11:43 AM 5/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Techno is strangling itself with its own provincial rulebook, said Mr.
Miller of Adult. People have finally grown tired of this. Electro has no
real sense of rules, and thus there is a
From the NY Times article:
On 5/6/02 1:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sorry, but that just is NOT electro - that is what electro became in the
eyes of the uber-hip NY nightclubbing cognoscente - it's just a New
Wave revival though. Misusing the words really pisses me off because it
It strikes me that electro is essentially any music that is derived from
the original 808 sound of Planet Rock.
The fact that you may not like what some people did with electro doesn't
give you the right to make the word non-applicable to the strands you
disapprove of. Please get your ego in
following up on that NYTimes article, here's another NYC publication's
take on the 'electro revival', from the Village Voice website
(http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0218/rewind.php)...the last paragraph
is the most interesting one:
Rewind! by Tricia Romano
You know the electro revival is
speaking of which, Im ready for an acid house revival.
-Joe
fux
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From: Suman Ganguli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [313] Re: Back to the Future and the Electro revival
following up on that NYTimes article,
At 12:44 PM 5/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Just out of curiosity, could someone point me to the Techno Rulebook? I'd
like to peruse it's pages to find out where guys like Theorem, Christian
Bloch, and Kit Clayton have gone wrong. We obviously have been mistaken in
calling their music Techno as they
http://www.askjeeves.com/main/askJeeves.asp?ask=where+can+I+find+the+techno+rulebook%3Fori=0qsrc=0meta=1
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From: Dale Lawrence
i always thought this was the techno formula :
http://music.hyperreal.org/library/how_to_be_a_techno_god
this still makes me laugh
-pete
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From: Giles Dickerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:01 PM
To: 313@hyperreal.org; Dale Lawrence
Not quite - electro is a relative of hip-hop. What seems to be forgotten in
all of the new-wave stuff is the quintessential funk - the African
heritage.
When I said
I don't remember electro as ever being a means to stand out from the
crowd - more of a way to bond with your crew.
I didn't mean
I'm with you on this one, bro. This whole New Wave retro craze is alot of
posing, if you ask me. And most of this electro-pop crap these days has
forgotten the funk. Stop trying to relive the 80's, and do your own sh*t.
Ego way the f**k out of check,
Jason
on 5/6/02 5:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
american funk.
not much funk goes on in africa. funk is as african as a bag of white
castle (for you detroiters)
my opinion,
-Joe
fux
www.emmrecords.com/teh_fux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [313]
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