quoted 4 lines Detroit didn't happen in a vacuum, either - you can kick it back to> Detroit didn't happen in a vacuum, either - you can kick it back to
> Kraftwerk, the experimentalists (Stockhausen, Dockstader, etc.) or
> even Musique Concret if you wish. Even if you do so, you still can't
> eascape the Detroit influence.
So true, 'Techno' emerged as an entity of its own due to the
Detroit-ists parroting the German and Eurodisco disco sound...
quoted 6 lines And if Detroit never happened, who knows - it might have sprung in> And if Detroit never happened, who knows - it might have sprung in
> some fashion from Chicago or acid house, both of which have their
> fingers in the pots as well. Everything came from somewhere and if
> you deny the dance music/techno leg of the whole of IDM, you have a
> truncated version - an amputee, i.e, a very limited definition which
> becomes more so the farther back you trace roots.
'God' created Adam, and Adam begat Moses, and Moses begat Jesus, and
Jesus begat Anton LaVey, and Anton LaVey begat Marilyn Manson, and
Marilyn Manson begat....?
It works in a similar vein thru so called 'IDM'... There was a Genesis
(who was parroting the Detroit/Chicago sound in establishing 'Acid
House'), but there were plenty 'Gods' there before shaping and forming
a sound out of the murky void... Derrick May, Juan Adkins, Kevin
Saunderson were certainly among the originators of this (R)evolution,
in as much as the early Aphexes and Autechres and et ecteras that begat
begat....
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