Re: This Music & Race

From: Jonathan Ashley (jon@oblivion.accessus.net)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 20:37:33 CEST

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    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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