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Hello again, one more comment on this... I think I need to explain some more...

quoted 8 lines BEGIN QUOTE FROM Isidoros Kyrlangitses:

> BEGIN QUOTE FROM Isidoros Kyrlangitses: > > > > Last i read, K Larkin just wanted a nice car n a nice house n > >didn't really care about the 'scene'- Metro Times 2 prt article on > >techno. > > Who can blame him? If you've lived in the ghetto, you'll know... > Hell, if you've visited the ghetto's, you'd know...

I personaly don?t blame anybody trying to make a living and trying to have a decent live. But still that IMHO means, not doing EVERYTHING if you have a choice and working for MAYDAY may seem usefull and good now but on the longterm it might be a disadvantage. Don?t think that those mayday kids will buy any Kenny Larkin records just because he spins there. Only his NAME, the name of an progressive underground artist from Detroit is used there to make more money, more money for those who already have it! Of course I can understand that is interesting for DJ?s to play at Mayday, in order to get known. But to get known as what?! I think the image of Mayday is too commercial, too hype.... and IMO it a negativ image for someone like Kenny Larkin to play there. There are other big events in europe (rave city munich, tribal gathering,...) which are also big and becourse of the size also somehow commercial but there is still a different attitude behind those. They still care about the scene, about the music. Most of all I blame Low Spirit and Mayday and the consequence for me is not to go there, not to support their system, not to buy their records. If Kenny Larkin (or others) decides to go that way to, I will think about buyinig his records next time. Until know I liked most of his stuff very much. let me quote some of Kenny Larkin statments: "People in general need to be more broad-minded about accepting different styles of dance music." Mayday doesn?t do that, you don?t hear the different styles of our music scene at mayday. No jungle f.e.! In the beginning mayday was somehow different but now as it attracts 40.000 people, they are playing what those people want to hear, it?s very narrow-minded! "In America' nobody knows who we are, because their minds are closed, they don't care about the music because what they've heard, techno-wise, is the fast shit. That's the DJ's fault, because they're the ones going to the record store and buying all this fast, square mechanical shit and they don't bother with the people in the scene." That?s what he calls "shit" here is the typical techno-sound of Mayday and he won?t change that! "I don't want Detroit to be big in America, or bigger in Europe because it's perfect the way it is." Now he is the BIG artist from Detroit at the biggest event in Europe! He must have changed his mind... "If it becomes big commercially, then, two or three years later, people will be saying 'remember that Detroit techno shit we used to do?' I just love the way it is. That's why I don't want to do a lot of music and become over-exposed. Then you become almost like a machine and people grow tired of you. So I prefer to stay at the back and drop an album here, a year later drop something else or whatever." (quotes taken form the interview with him at Generator, March 95) I would prefer he would do what he said here... people... I hope you understand now, why I am not happy about his performance at Mayday! greetingz, Harry