Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-15 Thread seth ...
christ, I post a half-serious message to 313 and I get responses filled with bigoted sh*te or suggestions that it's attitude's like mine which are stopping him releasing another album... (as if artists stop producing because people actually want to hear their music). Check the post cyclone, I

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-15 Thread Glyph1001
In a message dated 2/14/01 4:34:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Can you imagine how often Derrick must get asked this? Come up with some >deep, leftfield, creative questions that challenge him, not the obvious >ones. Try to empasise with him. Also if you want to ask him about the past, >also as

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?-black history month

2001-02-15 Thread Glyph1001
In a message dated 2/14/01 1:09:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Some of the things you are talking about were covered >during Q&A at the end. > Something I have always wondered, is why Does detroit >techno ( a black music) always get over looked as >such. > Or maybe I am over looking things, bu

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-15 Thread Glyph1001
RIGHT ON!!! WBMX was the shhyot! =) Was there when it happened, G. In a message dated 2/14/01 10:40:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >if it sounded like the hotmix 5 you would not hear me complaining. >

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-15 Thread Glyph1001
Ok you guys, stop getting your panties in a knot will ya??? =) And...please stop replying to "all" just to [EMAIL PROTECTED] don't need to get twice as much mail...thank you very much. Salute, Glyph. In a message dated 2/14/01 10:34:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> It was sad, because Derr

Fw: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-15 Thread debonair
- Original Message - From: "debonair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "313 Detroit" <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions? > > it&

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-15 Thread debonair
one day. james. - Original Message - From: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "313 Detroit" <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions? > I wasn't even go to reply to th

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?-black history month

2001-02-14 Thread Cyclone Wehner
>He also feels very strong about live music, and >everyone was talking about how live instruments are >coming back. >And the electronic music will die out soon. >A&R development people were talking about how they are >soon to have certain R&B/Hip-hop acts go on the road >with live bands instead o

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread David Knapik
Otto Koppius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Assuming that the majority of people were there to simply party (nothing >wrong with that btw) and because Derrick's set was one for the partiers >with a sense of musical history and broader musical interests, it fell >flat on the ears of the prototypical

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread Cyclone Wehner
I wasn't even go to reply to this but my hands got the better of me. >hows about we all get together and pay you to give him chinese burns until >he agrees to make another album. Man, I can't even believe people say these things. That would make him even less likely to do one. He is a free spirit

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread seth ...
rhythmically impaired white-dj audience. Sorry, I was forgetting it's not derek's personal choice which leads him away from kick drums, it's his black man's natural sense of rhythm isn't it? congratulations on bringing a serious musical point to the level of enoch powell. May I point out tha

RE: [313] re: Derrick May questions?-black history month

2001-02-14 Thread Oxholm-Flores, Rocio
be. -Original Message- From: nancy mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 2:01 PM To: Otto Koppius; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?-black history month So ...I was at a small gathering last night of industry people that c

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?-black history month

2001-02-14 Thread oliver . barkovic
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R: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread fab137
Otto, i beg to differ.completely it fell > flat on the ears of the prototypical white 18-year-old who has never > heard of James Brown and couldn't care less. sez who? thats an even greater generalization than saying white ppl cant funk! , white men can funk. But in the broader world of > d

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?-black history month

2001-02-14 Thread nancy mitchell
So ...I was at a small gathering last night of industry people that came to hear about Black Music: Past , Present & Future with Jimmy Starks & Hal Jackson speaking. Of course I would go!!! who would not want to hear these two HISTORICAL men speak about this music & their amazing lives. Some of

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread Otto Koppius
Gary Girard in response to Mike Taylor: > A bit of generalising if ever I saw it! Now you're getting into race issues (I > would assume you're of black origin to make such comments). I appreciate > melodic > tunes as much as anyone, but in a club on a big soundsystem the Richie Hawtin > style wor

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread Mike Taylor
if it sounded like the hotmix 5 you would not hear me complaining. From: "jim proffit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:16:10 Mike Taylor: (about how strong 4/4 kick-drum music is basica

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread Kyle J Dupuy
> It was sad, because Derrick's set was so much better, and so completely over > their head. PUHLEEEAZE! how quick you are to categorize and generalize.

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread jim proffit
Mike Taylor: (about how strong 4/4 kick-drum music is basically white folk's invention and the only thing that makes it move. Then:) ...The music was so square, boxy, it barely changed, grooveless and >without soul. ...He played a single bar 909 pattern that was like a kick and a clap >for

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread Gary Girard
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Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread chrise
> It was sad, because Derrick's set was so much better, and so completely over > their head. DAMN THOSE WHITE PEOPLE, THEY JUST DONT GET IT! keeping racial distinctions alive well into the 21st century, chris

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread Mike Taylor
hello, In a message dated 2/13/01 7:03:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Actually, I've always wanted to know what 'problem' he has with out nd >out> >dancefloor music. For instance: He often says he doesn't like to use bass> > >drums, because it's an easy way out / cheap trick / whatever. s

Re: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread Glyph1001
In a message dated 2/13/01 7:03:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Actually, I've always wanted to know what 'problem' he has with out and >out >dancefloor music. For instance: He often says he doesn't like to use bass > >drums, because it's an easy way out / cheap trick / whatever. seemingly > >

RE: [313] re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread Holly MacDonald-Korth
or there's the question I once asked andy weatherall... "being a 'legend', do you ever wonder you might go sh*t and no-one would tell you?" . or that they would, and that's why you won't make another album?

re: Derrick May questions?

2001-02-14 Thread seth ...
hows about we all get together and pay you to give him chinese burns until he agrees to make another album. Actually, I've always wanted to know what 'problem' he has with out and out dancefloor music. For instance: He often says he doesn't like to use bass drums, because it's an easy way out