Any Black People Making Electronic Music (Beside Hip-Hop)?

[Meffy]

i'm just a member of the human race

Nothing to be ashamed of. Many of us who aren't think y'all have a great deal of potential, and are willing to forgive humans for a lot. :-) Why, I've got some human genes myself!

[Hink]

Blacks in electronica are very rare (or so it seems anyway)

seriously?

Dont happen to listen to DnB, do you?

I live in America mate

Ask griels how I reacted the first time he described a UK Drum and Bass club

Seriously tho, I'd love for you to come out to this area and check out some clubs with me, you'd soon understand.

Hi Willie...I'm just up rte 3 from you (Lowell/Tyngsboro line)... But I'm just old rock-n-roll gi-tar player...I use to work in a small music store in Davis Square...though genre wise we're pretty far apart I figured I'd give a hello anyhow....

Hink! Get outta here?! My best friend from HS lives in Lowell. I go to his club night now and again, www.darkintentions.net . An "industrial" night

I feel closest to house, but I dabble in all forms of musical sorcery

Also, I went to Tufts University, so if you owned that store between the years of 1996-2005 chances are we've met

I didn't own it but I worked at Action music...(I also worked for Daddy's but in Nashua...and Mars in Natcik) but yeah I was there during some of those years...up to 99...if you went in action music there was this old fat dude (Jack) a real wheeler dealer and local music character and a guy with long hair...I was the one with hair...I live way out by the Rourke bridge in Lowell, about as far from dowtown as you can get...

[soulkraka]

I think it's daft to deny that house and techno are products of black (specifically black American) culture.
The vast majority of people on this forum genuinely couldn't give a shit if you're black, white or sky blue pink. But in their haste to prove their colour blindness some seek to deny the unique experience of the black community in America. A community that, in making what is recognisably black music from the earliest roots of jazz through to hip-hop and house, is responsible for the most important art form of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

In my opinion.

and mine

[WillieJenkins]

action music, damn that doesn't ring a bell... i don't know lowell that well, but he lives next to some kind of museum great to meet you regardless!

[allofdrab]

I think it's daft to deny that house and techno are products of black (specifically black American) culture.
The vast majority of people on this forum genuinely couldn't give a shit if you're black, white or sky blue pink. But in their haste to prove their colour blindness some seek to deny the unique experience of the black community in America. A community that, in making what is recognisably black music from the earliest roots of jazz through to hip-hop and house, is responsible for the most important art form of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

In my opinion.

Good point. I'm waking up.

[Cabinfever]

I think it's daft to deny that house and techno are products of black (specifically black American) culture.
The vast majority of people on this forum genuinely couldn't give a shit if you're black, white or sky blue pink. But in their haste to prove their colour blindness some seek to deny the unique experience of the black community in America. A community that, in making what is recognisably black music from the earliest roots of jazz through to hip-hop and house, is responsible for the most important art form of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

I think it's daft to deny that techno and early electronica are products of white (specifically anglo-saxon and germanic) culture.
The vast majority of people on this forum genuinely couldn't give a shit if you're black, white or sky blue pink. But in their haste to prove their colour blindness some seek to deny the unique experience of the common germanic heritage of northern europe. A community that, in making what is recognisably white music from the earliest roots of electronica through to techno, is responsible for the most repetitive and boring art forms of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

[soulkraka]

hey I heard that the kazoo was invented by a white guy?

Can anyone confirm?

[Ford Prefect]

.I actually am half-germanic (swedish, german, norwegian) and half-african american btw

All this "half" talk makes no sense...my son's mom is from Japan...In my recent heritage there's German, Welsh, Dutch, and Cherokee...The only thing anybody can literally be half of is half mom half dad...Japanese are some of the most ethnocentric, xenophobic people yet don't realize their heritage is comprised of at least 7 tribes...so I get really torqued when my son gets referred to as "half-Japanese"...

[ModuLR]

I'm black, and I made this... and it ain't hiphop so do I get a prize or something?

[experimental.crow]

I'm black, and I made this... and it ain't hiphop so do I get a prize or something?

one of my all-time fav KvR tracks ...

[WillieJenkins]

Ford,

Unfortunately this is not how the world works. Unless you live in Brasil or another place where the majority of people are heavily racially mixed. Pretty much everywhere else, your son will be considered half-asian / half-white, and will hear antagonizing remarks from both sides.

The reason many racially mixed people attempt to claim who they are, is so that they can take control of their identity, as opposed to allowing other people to dictate their identity to them.

[Lady J]

More and more we are all a mixture. I like the Tiger Woods approach to this stuff. Just make up words to describe ourselves.

[The Chase]

I'm black, and I made this... and it ain't hiphop so do I get a prize or something?

badass!

[Cabinfever]

All this "half" talk makes no sense...my son's mom is from Japan...In my recent heritage there's German, Welsh, Dutch, and Cherokee...The only thing anybody can literally be half of is half mom half dad...Japanese are some of the most ethnocentric, xenophobic people yet don't realize their heritage is comprised of at least 7 tribes...so I get really torqued when my son gets referred to as "half-Japanese"...

but if his mom is japanese then obviously (from an ancestral point of view) he *is* half-japanese. how else are you going to describe it ? "son you're half american and half the product of seven distinct tribes that settled in the mountainous archepeligo known in many places as Dongyang, although your genetic makeup may not equally reflect the seven tribes".

[experimental.crow]

All this "half" talk makes no sense...my son's mom is from Japan...In my recent heritage there's German, Welsh, Dutch, and Cherokee...The only thing anybody can literally be half of is half mom half dad...Japanese are some of the most ethnocentric, xenophobic people yet don't realize their heritage is comprised of at least 7 tribes...so I get really torqued when my son gets referred to as "half-Japanese"...

but if his mom is japanese then obviously (from an ancestral point of view) he *is* half-japanese. how else are you going to describe it ? "son you're half american and half the product of seven distinct tribes that settled in the mountainous archepeligo known in many places as Dongyang, although your genetic makeup may not equally reflect the seven tribes".

seems a tad wordy ...