RE: melodic electronica...

David Hodgson
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 22:07:00 -0800


as is Juan
but at the same time i'm pretty sure that Kraftwerk / Tangerine Dream / Jean
Michel Jarre are white :-)
it depends how you define the word origin, how you define techno.
most popular music of the 20th century has it's roots in Africa to a large
degree.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: t-bird@salata.com [SMTP:t-bird@salata.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 10:53 PM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: melodic electronica...
>
> > >Now techno is black music,
> >
> > Sorry I don't get it !! Explain me better...
>
> ni> I agree. How can you put a colour on Techno - What's going on?
>
> the same way that you can say that hiphop or r&b or funk or jungle or
> *whatever* is black music. usually what someone means (because there
> really
> aren't races/etc. of music) is that the genre in question either has
> origin
> (i.e. founding artists) or a predominant audience of whatever race/etc.
>
> derrick may, kevin saunderson, & juan atkins are three of the
> djs/producers
> associated w/the origin of techno; i know that derrick & kevin are
> black...
>
> -t
>
>
>
> ... is that a can of worms you're opening?