At 12:29 -0500 21.01.97, you wrote:
quoted 12 lines Juan Atkins and Derrick May are the boys who started piddling around>
>Juan Atkins and Derrick May are the boys who started piddling around
>in their bedrooms in the early in 80's in Detroit. This was the
>first techno. House music mutated out of the early techno in Chicago.
>
>Techno became much more popular in Europe then it did in the US in
>the late 80's and early 90's and artists their were much more
>influencial during this period.
>
>People, please correct any historical inaccuracies. And in no way
>should this be taken as a "US v. Europe" argument.
>
Right on.
The Europe-U.S. process is too complex to attempt some simple us-vs-them competition anyway.
House was largely born in U.S. gay underground clubs, a sort of pre-rave scene. But house hit the mainstream in Europe before it bounced back and hit the mainstream in the U.S. (largely when non-house pop artists started lifting house rhythms).
Similarly with techno, which has its roots in the U.S., but certainly the techno scene now is immense in Europe relative to the U.S. Josh Wink was complaining about this recently, saying (with perhaps slight poetic hyperbole) that the U.S. is the only country in the Western world where dance music is _not_ the most popular form of music.
Zenon M. Feszczak
Philosophist
P.S. Check out the double comp assembled by 4Hero of Detroit techno, called "The Deepest Shade of Techno".