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From:
jeff shoemaker
To:
Simon Walley
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Date:
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:51:35 -0600 (CST)
Subject:
Re: (idm) simon reynolds blurb on matador site
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quoted 8 lines to someone>>to someone >>like myself who was too young during most of the electronic music >>revolution, _generation ecstacy_ was a comprehensive history of electronic >>music, a good way to catch up quick. > >Sure. But its a skewed history - Reynolds bias against Detroit techno and >its' influence is hard to fathom. I'd reccomend Dan Sickos _Techno Rebels_ >book for a background on how techno started.
Generation Ecstacy was about rave. Techno Rebels was about techno. two different things entirely. Dan Sicko makes this point again and again in his book. -------------- 1642 try 621 -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org