I'm not saying that these MCDE tracks are completely original or anything, they're obviously indebted to older Moodymann (Small Black Church, I Feel Joy, etc,), they're just really well done. Its not like Kenny is some completely original auteur either, he's a sample based artist and he owes a lot to Ron Hardy and all the other house innovators. As for the name, Stuttgart is Germany's Motor City isn't it?
Isn't it a big manufacturing hub?
Whatever, the Detroit guys have an axe to grind about this stuff anyways.
Kenny Dixon Jr is possibly the worst when it comes to borderline racist statements about European guys trying to steal Detroit's Soul. I love the man's music, but I get so tired of an endless stream of middle aged cranky Detroit artists bitching about European house and techno. And then turning around and selling single sided 12"s to an almost exclusively European market at inflated costs. That Andres album was 20 minutes long, and its full price.