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of course i agree. significant european influence, from early industrial to mute stuff, depeche mode, italo new wave and disco, jean michel jarr, etc. But yes i agree again, all these Euro strands were themselves takes on Afro-American music. And no, of course it does not take away from the...

i dont think article or anyone is denying that Kraftwerk were ground breaking and revolutionary, only that the industry routinely fails to mention their roots in the Afro American heritage, in order to construct the myth of 1. a "pure" machine music divorced from history, spontaneously emerging...

? i don't get what you're saying. Europhilia is not really a "position", and of course all sources and influences are legitimate...

also, when i gave a talk about this at a conference recently, this African musician and scholar added a somewhat darkly amusing element, which is that the Africans which were captured and sold as slaves were for sure not the best musicians in Africa at that time :) The African kings did not...

i've bee saying this for ages, on this forum too, meeting with considerable objection. Thanks to David Toop for saying it during his recent lectures, and Tony Herrington for following up in the pages of The Wire: techno didn't emerge from tabula rasa, and Kraftwerk should be seen as firmly...

nice! echoes of that historical legacy... part of all our lives :)

no you're right there isn't any mention of suicide...

maybe as part of growing interest in Mid Eastern and N.Afrikan sounds in general in recent years, Omar Souleyman, Tinariwen, etc., and now Acid Arab... as related to the whole "global bass" thing. also his music is that strong, and does not sound dated at all, in fact quite fresh in 2014...

i doubt the Noise/Experimental sections of indie record shops in Afghanistan or Iraq in the 90s were so well stocked... what i meant is that as relatively minor as he was in terms of charts, his work did circulate quite a bit in other parts of the world, and he was certainly the most outspoken...

http://rt.com/news/russian-troops-crimea-ukraine-816/ ?

you could find his CDs in nearly all record shops in the US back in the 90s... (i wanted to buy all of them)

oh and mods can split threads now? if so cool :cool: i seem to remember this conversation being part of another thread or maybe i'm just high

Actually even before reading Padraig's summary i realized that my earlier statements regarding MG's "clear ethical vision" needs revision -- particularly after befriending a North African/Arabic/Jewish musician who has both imbued a more well rounded understanding of Israeli society as well as...

any of you old heads in town for a weekend binge come say hello! my set will likely be about 5am

bigup babs!

anyone have any good links handy to rebuke the "ancient tribal feuds" argument which minimizes the role of capitalism in explaining the on going Congolese wars? thanks in advance

point, obviously. Faults can be found with specific proclaimed allegiances, i think his clear ethical vision was on a bigger scale, the Arab cause, after a century of being bullied from outside. But no he wasn't perfect, and like many artists, some of his ideas were not grounded in reality...

hmm while of course the "minor keys" of the 303 naturally fit perfectly well with Mid Eastern scales and mood, making it easy to slap together, i think the Acid Arab stuff works well in its integration of various elements. love it to death personally. went to go see them last weekend but the...

thanks muser. yes that peruvian style goes deeeeep... when djs who really know their chichas throw down it is so very sweet. and among the dozens of Peruvian and Colombian styles (of which cumbia is of course only one), the lesser known to us ones are beautiful as well, and often even more...

Bryn Jones was not dodgy, he was an amazing musician with clear ethical and political vision. what IS dodgy is this skewed article: "hateful propaganda"? Article makes this claim and has zero examples for demonstration. I guess "hateful propaganda" for the author is a label also fit...