On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Olaf Molenveld wrote:
> mmm.funny you say this, i must say that a lof of times i am surprised that a
> certain producers is a white-coloured person...especially when i hear some
> of the smooth afrofunk stuff etc. that's produced.....i must say that one of
> the main things i love about house/garage/nujazz/drum 'n bass/whatever funky
> quality music is the integration and mixing of all kinds of racial
> influences.....white guys/gals producing amazing afrofunk, coloured people
> producing amazing kraftwerk influenced electro/techno, brasilians producing
> UK born drum 'n bass, germans producing brasilian oriented house music.....i
> love it! :)
Classic Man.
> some "funny"? stories: Rae and Christian did a session once with bobby
> womack...when they showed up at his door he was amazed that these 2 white uk
> guys where actually producing this soulfull music he heard from them, he
> really thought they where black guys...
> in an interview A Guy called Gerald, who now lives in the states, told that
> a lot of times when he spoke to black people in the states they couldn't
> believe that there were also black people living in the UK....the world was
> either divided in african people or afro-americans...
That part about black people in the uk is true. I was at my barber once
and he didn't believe it. And it's the history books that do that son.
Part again of our fucked up education system.
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