Martin D
Well-known member
i should prob read that article first, but the problem i have with this sort of argument is that it almost always just ends up being something like a) all music is black music b) black people must not like white music (and if they do, then of course, there must be black roots in that music)
me personally, i can barely hear these black roots, at least not until 80s kraftwerk, so it is then an argument about something more interesting to me at this point in my life, why just because something has 'roots' in something else, that it has to be firmly abridged to that earlier thing. not saying to ignore what kraftwerk may have been listening to, but to actually LISTEN, and see that despite those apparent roots, that what they did doesnt really follow all that easily on from it.
This is similar to something Mad Mike said, he always talked about Kraftkerk not being a colour, race or age, that the music somehow transcend all of that.