1. The Hardwax crew (of which Basic Channel is one manifestation) were
going to buy one of Ron Murphy (of NSC)'s record lathes. Don't know if
that went through, but that's at least one solid link between Detroit
and Berlin.
2. ELO did pretty much suck, after a certain point, but they came out
of The Move, and Roy Wood is one of the great unsung heroes of
experimental popular music. ELO booted Roy out after the first album
for his relentless love of weirdness. He went on to make several
curious solo albums, that you should buy on sight if they turn up.
3. Detroit has a curious place in American musical history, because of
the myriad people that got their start there. The techno dudes,
Madonna, Eminem, MC5, White Stripes, etc.
All of the early IDM guys were heavily influenced by Detroit -- Aphex
Twin, Black Dog, Kirk DiGiorgio, Dego (of 4Hero), etc.
4. I wouldn't blame Derrick May for IDM. Autechre have a lot to answer
for, though. I like Autechre as much as the next boffin, but man o
man, the GODAWFUL crap that has come out of Autechre imitators ....
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:08:09 -0500, theREALmxyzptlk
<theREALmxyzptlk@comcast.net> wrote:
quoted 18 lines Alan Lucas wrote:> Alan Lucas wrote:
>
> >Well, you know, which Donna Summer are you talking about?
> >
> >
> Well, Mr. Forrest has little to do with post-rock either. He has more to
> do with the revival of bad rock - so bad it's supposed to be good.
> In some cases it is, but NOT so with E.L.O. - do you hear me Jason?? NOT
> good. Never was, never will be. Down with Jeff Lynne. ;-)
>
> jeff
>
>
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