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offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-02-15 06:33 [#01073983]
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Why are there are only so few black people intrested in
techno....actually I dont know many black DJs, yet the music
orignated in Detroit and Techno is considered part of the
Zulu Nation...


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-02-15 06:36 [#01073985]
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Maybe you just don't know a lot about Techno?


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-02-15 06:37 [#01073987]
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they...invented it...


 

offline artemis from Ghent (Belgium) on 2004-02-15 06:38 [#01073988]
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Techno and House music has indeed his orgins is in Black
America, interesting question, but i have no answer so far.


 

offline princo from Shitty City (Geelong) (Australia) on 2004-02-15 06:43 [#01073991]
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what ever it is... white people fucked it up, dried it up..
yadda yadda.



 

offline blowfield on 2004-02-15 06:43 [#01073992]
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but they can make more money with R & B or jazz... (or
pornos)


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-02-15 06:45 [#01073993]
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Techno is white boi funk


 

offline artemis from Ghent (Belgium) on 2004-02-15 06:46 [#01073994]
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That is true, Princo. White people have stolen the music
and the big money


 

offline artemis from Ghent (Belgium) on 2004-02-15 06:46 [#01073995]
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Richie Hawtin for example is one of this suckers!


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-02-15 06:48 [#01073996]
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I dont think Techno was ever about race or nationality,
Kraftwerk were german, and they were one of the founding
fathers of techno


 

offline artemis from Ghent (Belgium) on 2004-02-15 06:48 [#01073997]
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Somebody must tell him that he has to sell his equipment, he
is totally overrated, what a boring stuff!


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-15 06:48 [#01073998]
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I'd argue Richie's minimal Techno is quite different to
someone like Derrick May's Stuff...


 

offline artemis from Ghent (Belgium) on 2004-02-15 06:51 [#01074001]
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techno is in fact a mix of black and white: the equipement
and noise of kraftwerk combined with the warmth and groove
of black music


 

offline princo from Shitty City (Geelong) (Australia) on 2004-02-15 06:52 [#01074003]
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ah yes, I'm digging that.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-15 06:53 [#01074005]
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"The soul of the machine" :D


 

offline artemis from Ghent (Belgium) on 2004-02-15 06:54 [#01074006]
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Voilà


 

offline naaic from Uppsala (Sweden) on 2004-02-15 07:28 [#01074031]
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or as derrick may once described it, "the music is like
detroit, a complete mistake. it's like george clinton and
kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to
keep them company."

i love that quote!


 

offline artemis from Ghent (Belgium) on 2004-02-15 07:35 [#01074037]
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That typical derrick may, you can find this famous words on
the virgin album
Techno! The New Dance Sound Of Detroit


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2004-02-15 11:28 [#01074223]
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im black, i dig electronica


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2004-02-15 11:33 [#01074229]
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i dig your avatar


 

offline aquagak from Berlin (Germany) on 2004-02-15 11:51 [#01074271]
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i dig holes


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2004-02-15 11:54 [#01074276]
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i dig dug


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2004-02-15 11:54 [#01074278]
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zephyr twin>>

thanks


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-15 11:55 [#01074279]
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i dig it


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2004-02-15 12:00 [#01074289]
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what is the big deal anyway


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2004-02-15 12:01 [#01074293]
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any of you guys checked out The Undatakerz?


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2004-02-15 14:34 [#01074476]
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yeah what's the dig beal...

haha i got to use dig again


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2004-02-15 14:44 [#01074497]
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jeff millzzzzzzzzzzz


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-02-15 14:45 [#01074501]
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finally some one mentions the best techno dj ever!!!!!!


 

offline acrid milk hall from United Kingdom on 2004-02-15 14:53 [#01074525]
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indeed.

i just dont understand a topic like this though. for me.
race + music are mutually exclusive. an artists skin colour
has no more bearing on their ability to make good music than
their sex, age, country of origin etc.
art is supposed to transcend these boundaries.
naturally an artist's background has a bearing on what they
create. but its not as simple as black/white good/bad..
there's great techno music made by both black + white
musicians. people shouldnt be told who can create what any
more than you can be told what you can listen to.

that said, i do find it amusing the number of bigoted,
mysoginist, homophobic macho white guys into house music -
as house music's roots lie in the world of the gay black
disco scene.
ah, sweet irony..


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2004-02-15 17:39 [#01074766]
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whats fucking interesting to me is the number of people
spinning oldschool hip hop-- and all the good stuff are
dorky white guys...

(no prejudice, just pointing it out -- and i think it is a
good thing-- i do not judge based on anything)


 

offline reset on 2004-02-15 17:43 [#01074771]
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hey hey

don't forget: the keys on a synth are white *and* black.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-02-15 17:45 [#01074774]
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all the difference i've noticed is that black people prefer
rhytmic music...maybe that't the reason why there aren't any
in the idm scene :)


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-15 18:12 [#01074786]
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it probably has something to do with how you grow up...
certain demographics will feel more "a part" of this or
that... up until recently the white boy in hip hop was very
much an outsider... i'm not going to pretend like there was
no white boys in hip hop... but relative numbers will
certainly show that the ratio is shifting now that there are
so many prominent white figures in the hip hop scene... by
contrast one might say that the lack of black people in some
areas of electronic music may have something to do with the
fact that the demographic, on average, has been of lower
financial standing, and thus perhaps had less access to
computer technology... of course you can always point to
exceptions: the uk drum n bass scene was totally integrated,
for example (and virtually all of my favourite dnb producers
are black)... you could also just point to the fact that the
music that various racial demographics grew up on was quite
variant... the difference between growing up with your
parents listening to classical as opposed to jazz as opposed
to disco as opposed to r and b (etc, etc,) can make a huge
difference... (that said, my mother listened to a lot of
soul, and my dad listened to a lot of jazz... not the first
genres that come to mind for upper middle class white
people, born in the early 1950s... so what i'm saying only
goes so far in explaining anything...)


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-15 18:19 [#01074789]
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i'd also like to say how lame it is to talk about this
racial group "stealing" music from that racial group...
granted under certain circumstances something along those
lines has happened... but it's not stealing... to call it
that is to, first of all, equate any individual with their
race in a manner that does more than just state what colour
their skin is, but attempts to structuralize their
preferences, which is complete rubbish... second of all it
discourages races from listening to music that is typically
regarded as being the music of another race... which is,
again, complete rubbish...


 

offline DaWeeze from WANTED IN 16 STATES! on 2004-02-15 18:19 [#01074790]
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*cough*Gerald Simpson*hack*Juan Atkins*cough*Carl
Craig*ahem*innovators*AHEM!*

Sorry, what were you saying...


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-02-15 18:25 [#01074795]
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can someone say how many black people attend idm gigs in
us?
cuz here in europe you can hardly see any...for instance-the
biggest electronic music festival is probably sonar, there
were surely over 20.000 people there and i only saw like 2
black people. there were quite many japanese people tho.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-15 18:26 [#01074797]
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i don't think anyone's denying that there are a whole lot of
black artists responsible for techno's
inception/development... but that doesn't change the fact
that there are probably more white techo artists than black
techno artists... we're talking figures, here, not prestige


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-15 18:27 [#01074798]
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at the one bonafide idm concert i went to there were
thirty-five white nerds... probably 27 of whom were male


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-02-15 18:33 [#01074799]
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8-)


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2004-02-15 19:11 [#01074810]
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any one that goes to an 'IDM' gig needs to ask themselves
what the fuck they are doing.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-15 19:47 [#01074820]
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-supporting local talents who are looking for people to
share their artistry with?

-meeting other interesting people who share your tastes in
music?


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2004-02-15 19:50 [#01074821]
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WHAT
THE
FUCK
AM
I
DOING?

JEEZOUS THINK I JUST SHAT IN MY OWN VAGINA!


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2004-02-15 19:57 [#01074823]
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I wasn't really talking to you but.........'talent',
'artistry'? yes it's taste but lot's of so called 'IDM' is
variaitions on limits set by some nerd that pre-decides how
far one can go. to be honest I don't find that very
intelligent.

If you enjoy it on some 'self appreciating' level then good.
There's no way I'd waste my time appreciating some non
music with intilectual pretensions


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2004-02-15 19:57 [#01074824]
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hee hee! my vagina needs some looking at too.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-15 20:23 [#01074836]
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i'm not sure what you are objecting to.. is it simply that
the word "idm" was placed before the word gig? you do listen
to electronic music that is not dance-oriented don't you?
i'm not asking this because i'm trying to be sarcastic and
rude... but i'm curious, what you mean


 

offline Intruder from Chicago (United States) on 2004-02-16 01:15 [#01074911]
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i know more blacks into electronic than white. i used to
know a guy that sort of liked industrial, and thats about
it. other than that everyone elsei know or have known have
either been european like myself, middle eastern or black.
then again, i dont really talk to a whole lot of white
people.
But blacks are very into electronic music around here and in
detroit. i have family in detroit, and all they listen to is
house and downtempo.

I dont know where the person that originlly posted is from,
but i'm guessing its not very culturally diverse.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-02-16 01:18 [#01074912]
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Please tell me the Prefuse 73 guy is black?


 

offline Intruder from Chicago (United States) on 2004-02-16 01:31 [#01074916]
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No.


 


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