[seeklektek <eclectic@attbi.com>]
quoted 9 lines The US scene was certainly not kicked off by GPO - that's probably the most> > The US scene was certainly not kicked off by GPO - that's probably the most
> > ridiculous thing I ever saw on the idmlist. Try telling that story to
> > Marshall Jefferson, Larry Heard, Todd Terry, Juan Atkins and many, many
> > others. The US media has a well-known history of supressing the influence of
> > black working-class music - please don't be taken in like that.
>
> That was *not* the same Acid House scene as the one being discussed:
> in fact, there was no Acid House scene there in Chicago or in Detroit,
> per se.
Uh, what are you talking about? Chicago's house scene was huge in the
80's.
Also, nobody has mentioned Phuture yet. Or Armando, Adonis, etc..
quoted 3 lines But the energy and artistic expression present in Acid House Parties> But the energy and artistic expression present in Acid House Parties
> (which spawned 'raves') *were* indeed more a product of the conceptual
> efforts of GPO and PTV, than of those others.
Which were a product of the Warehouse which was a product of disco which
was a product of rock.. I'm so sick of these "when did a scene start"
discussions. "Acid Trax" was the first acid record, that much is for
sure. Everything beyond that is a judgement call.
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