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From:
Greg Hill
To:
max
Cc:
idm Org
Date:
Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:38:20 -0800
Subject:
Re: [idm] Derrick May invented IDM?
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Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, Derrick May...CYBOTRON....electro. ----- Original Message ----- From: "max" <max0666@cox.net> Cc: "idm Org" <idm@hyperreal.org> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [idm] Derrick May invented IDM?
quoted 34 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... > > >> 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.... > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >
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