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

[WillieJenkins]

Best of luck to y'all, and respect. *bow*

Thanks bro, even if its just in our minds its great fun to just go out to a club and not worry about anything but really just feeling the music, meeting people, and just really being able to relax and let your guard down.

[The Chase]

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

seriously?

Dont happen to listen to DnB, do you?

[Bunnyboy]

jeez, who gives a f**k?? the best thing about DnB is that the idea of race and skin colour became irrelevent cause it was a UK (or rather London) thing. DJ Hype might be white, but he is not a WASP.

Kid606 (aka Miguel Deprendro) is from Venezuela originally, and DJ/Rupture (Jayson Clayce) is I think non-cauc, but it has been ages since i met him.

Okay, I do think that TVD question was relevent (as i was aware that he was non-cauc), but as a topic of three pages??

err, i am a bit drunk - sorry!!

[The Chase]

you seriously met dj rupture!?! His track 'High Reolution Heat Sensor' in in my top 10 favorite tracks!

[androidlove]

it's weird that different races get used to doing certain things. i'm just a member of the human race

[Bunnyboy]

you seriously met dj rupture!?! His track 'High Reolution Heat Sensor' in in my top 10 favorite tracks!

yes. my mate matt (randomNumber) is a trouring mate of Kid606's so when all three played together i went up to rupture and babbled at him for a bit.

Have you checked out the gold teath thief mix at negrophonic.com??

I've got it on CD 1 of 500 copies

[WillieJenkins]

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.

[stale bread]

i have 1 black friend that makes experimental/dnb, and 2 that make trance.

damn! only 3 black friends.... I'm stayin outta texas
















of course i'm kidding.

[The Chase]

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.

Why? the lack of ethnicity?
Weird cuz the diversity of the DnB scene here is part of why I love it so much.

[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....

[nuffink]

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.

[WillieJenkins]

Whoa? Really? My friend out in Denver says similar things.

Up here in the Northeast, you're seriously lucky if you get one non-white to 50 whites. I don't think I'm exaggerating that number at all either unfortunately. Actually, in NYC its not that bad, I'd assume Chi-town and Philly not either, but where I'm at... its rough.. real rough.

Not that I'm around all whites (hell, I'm half white) but that lack of "a sea of color" vibe you get at a all integrated club.

Latin/Salsa clubs out here is where you get a great mix of everybody.

[Bunnyboy]

Why? the lack of ethnicity?
Weird cuz the diversity of the DnB scene here is part of why I love it so much.

I'm going with that!! it is one of the reasons why i took to DnB (as well as bein amazin music) - I didnt feel like it was a white or black sort of music, i just saw it as a vibe that people got.

Especially at the start (DnB was the first type of electronic music i got into) when I could see it as a purely UK thing - kinda felt a bit proud of this little isle producing such an amazing form of music without any racial barriers.

(okay, as for non racial music, I would say jazz in my ill-informed opinion, was the great barrier breaker, but that was at a time when social racial barriers were massive )

[WillieJenkins]

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

[WillieJenkins]

What store?