Any Black People Making Electronic Music (Beside Hip-Hop)?
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- KVRAF
- 1530 posts since 20 Feb, 2003
and i didn't even get to the German, Welsh, Dutch, and Cherokee bit
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- KVRist
- 495 posts since 5 Sep, 2002 from Boston, Mass
Yeah, we are getting there, but we still have a few generations to go I think.Lady J wrote:More and more we are all a mixture. I like the Tiger Woods approach to this stuff. Just make up words to describe ourselves.
There has been tremendous progress even since I was growing up.
In school, when you had to fill in the 'select one' for ethnicity bubbles in school, 'mixed' wasn't even an option. We got to be the infamous 'other'
Also, tolerance has grown immensely, I can still remember when "Jungle Fever" came out, and I came home from school to a talk show where both whites and blacks were arguing that interracial babies were worse then dirt.. WHOAAAA nice self-esteem booster there.
I think awareness is growing tho, we're finally starting to see support groups spring up in colleges and high schools.
Hopefully by the time me and my Chinese gf-soon-to-be-fiancee have kids, I can tell them these kind of stories and laugh
-Eric
If it sounds good it is good.
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- KVRian
- 945 posts since 30 Mar, 2004
Tiger Woods doesn't have a race... He's a tigerLady J wrote:More and more we are all a mixture. I like the Tiger Woods approach to this stuff. Just make up words to describe ourselves.
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- KVRAF
- 2121 posts since 14 Jun, 2002 from Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
Gosh...I hope so...but do you remember that night the 2 of you saw the lights and woke up 2 days later? It may be cool though...they might have powers or somethin'...ModuLR wrote:The day my fiance and I are blessed with children... I think they'll be humans...
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- Banned
- 6127 posts since 1 Apr, 2004 from Et in Arcadia Ego
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- KVRAF
- 3588 posts since 13 May, 2004 from montreal
Check the fine William Bennett (Whitehouse)-curated compilation 'Extreme Music from Africa' for a selection of music from the new African avant-garde/noise electronics scene.
http://www.susanlawly.freeuk.com/africa/africa.html
Not really electronic, but nonetheless pushing it with homemade electric mbiras and amps made from scavenged car parts, are Konono No.1.
Then there's the guy behind Irdial Discs and the Conet Project.
Dean Dennis of ClockDVA and other, lesser known groups.
And of course, Jeff Mills, Rob Hood, Mike Banks (who has made some very pertinent, and mostly negative, comments about the dominance of hip hop and r&b in the US), Kenny Larkin, Claude Young and pretty much the whole Detroit/Chicago techno scene.
But why reinforce borders in the first place?
http://www.susanlawly.freeuk.com/africa/africa.html
Not really electronic, but nonetheless pushing it with homemade electric mbiras and amps made from scavenged car parts, are Konono No.1.
Then there's the guy behind Irdial Discs and the Conet Project.
Dean Dennis of ClockDVA and other, lesser known groups.
And of course, Jeff Mills, Rob Hood, Mike Banks (who has made some very pertinent, and mostly negative, comments about the dominance of hip hop and r&b in the US), Kenny Larkin, Claude Young and pretty much the whole Detroit/Chicago techno scene.
But why reinforce borders in the first place?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1411 posts since 25 Sep, 2003 from The Dirty South, USA
I'm just looking for all of the facts sir.Chase wrote:No. Just curiousity on the original poster's part.Andrew Vernon wrote:Does skin colour really matter? I mean, isn't this an archaic question?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1411 posts since 25 Sep, 2003 from The Dirty South, USA
I can just imagine Tiger at a rave:Lady J wrote:More and more we are all a mixture. I like the Tiger Woods approach to this stuff. Just make up words to describe ourselves.
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- KVRAF
- 3964 posts since 31 Aug, 2003 from In a foreign town, in a foreign land
Indeed. Just about everyone you mentioned is breaking them down (and have been for decades).dystonia_ek wrote:Check the fine William Bennett (Whitehouse)-curated compilation 'Extreme Music from Africa' for a selection of music from the new African avant-garde/noise electronics scene.
http://www.susanlawly.freeuk.com/africa/africa.html
Not really electronic, but nonetheless pushing it with homemade electric mbiras and amps made from scavenged car parts, are Konono No.1.
Then there's the guy behind Irdial Discs and the Conet Project.
Dean Dennis of ClockDVA and other, lesser known groups.
And of course, Jeff Mills, Rob Hood, Mike Banks (who has made some very pertinent, and mostly negative, comments about the dominance of hip hop and r&b in the US), Kenny Larkin, Claude Young and pretty much the whole Detroit/Chicago techno scene.
But why reinforce borders in the first place?
I saw Konono No. 1 live several years ago and it was a great experience. The were using The Ex' amps and the result was some of the noisiest and most hypnotic things I've heard/seen/felt.
There's something immensely visceral about 4 distorted sansa's at 100 dB going on for two hours.
Groet, Erik
Pop music delenda est.
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- KVRAF
- 7317 posts since 7 Mar, 2003
Not a bad point actually. I couldn't help notice that when I worked at the Download 2005 festival that the audience were predominantly white, and this was a metal festival.WillieJenkins wrote:I don't think so necc... Blacks in electronica are very rare (or so it seems anyway), I'm always curious to see who else is as well.Andrew Vernon wrote:Does skin colour really matter? I mean, isn't this an archaic question?
I've REALLY been curious as to how many KVRians are
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- KVRAF
- 2336 posts since 13 Oct, 2002 from Terra Firma
It's Live 8 in Hyde Park and Gay Pride in Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square. How's that for diversity. It's going to be a fantastic day of music and celebration in central London today. I'm off there right now for the Drag Idol finals in Leicester Square - Kate Winslet is comparing - something for everyone then.