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my opinion of music is my personal taste no more no less you, Fuminaro, may be like Bowie, Madonna, i dont know , whoever- i like german minimalizm compared to what other stuff suck. good, you disagree, lets move on. cheers, "..not that there is smth wrong with it.." Snfld __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 2 lines my opinion of music is my personal taste no more

>my opinion of music is my personal taste no more >no less

next time you advance a personal opinion, then, you just *might* want to phrase it in less dogmatic terms that those with which you wrote off the entire musical output of the "third world" as crap.

quoted 4 lines you, Fuminaro, may be like Bowie, Madonna, i

>you, Fuminaro, may be like Bowie, Madonna, i >dont know , whoever- >i like german minimalizm compared to what other >stuff suck.

it's interesting that you bring up this point, because i just got off the phone from an hourlong conversation with thomas brinkmann -- who i think most of us would agree rather epitomizes "german minimalizm" -- and much of our conversation centered on they hybridity in his music, and the complex roots of german music -- US military presence in the 60s and 70s introducing afro-american soul, post-pinochet chilean exiles introducing a latin element in the 80s and 90s -- and that this hybridity stands in stark opposition to deep-seated notions of "purity," both racial and cultural, which even now fuckers like jorg haider are trying to resurrect. in other words, it's quite subversive. and it entails knowing a *little* something about other forms of music. but i guess you'd miss that part. and did you know that throughout latin america, germanic techno actually has a huge presence? it's very influential in mexico, chile, argentina, with the result that there's a surprising amount of cross-pollination between those cultures (btw, i'm not calling latin america *one* culture, either). i think you need to learn a little something about nuance, and stop assuming that the thing you happen to like is the *only* thing with value. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org