> > 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...
>
> ....and so is Juan. And Carl Craig, Kenny Larkin, Claude Young, and
> just about every other significant Detroit techno artist. It's
> possible that techno is not commonly thought of as black music be-
> cause certain *white* artists have been more commercially success-
> ful at it than the originators.
But, then again, whereever techno is played out, the audience is
predominantly white (at least whereever I've heard it). I guess it
goes to show that you can't draw lines based on colour.
Of course *duh*! :P
bijan