At 6:28 PM 1/26/98, Peter Becker wrote:
quoted 15 lines I've been crusing the digests for a week now and I could'nt hold back on a>I've been crusing the digests for a week now and I could'nt hold back on a
>few things:
>
>a.
>
>Re: the "kids these days" rant with the Kraftwerk comment ( sorry, I can't
>remember the context)
>for the person whose post ended with something like " thus Tour de France"
>should be restated "thus
>ComputerWorld" as "Computerworld was released *years* before Tour de
>France. If electro has roots (and
>it certainly does) the roots dig the deepest to Computerworld, though Tour
>de France is indeed another pinnacle of
>electro inspiration.
>
Wouldn't it be even more accurate to postulate
Computer World --> chopped up and looped by kids in the US --> Tour De
France --> electro as we know it?
Yes, the roots of electro go to Computer World, but Tour De France was a
direct result of Kraftwerk's discovering what was being done with their
earlier stuff. Or so they claim...
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