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This is not a Mixmag read: it’s detailed, descriptive overview for the geeks and OCD types to chew on. It was also published in 1993 so it contains a couple of quaint clunkers: “techno has become a catchall pop buzzword: this year's grunge” sounds weirdly out of whack in 2007. I guess the genre names were still up for definition back then.
This piece explores the roots of techno (Kraftwerk, the Belleville Three, Frankie Knuckles, Moroder), contrasting it with a present day gig at the Brixton Academy in London, with LFO and Orbital dressed up in spacesuits, no doubt to the pleasure of thousands of glowstick-waving ravers in baggy pants.
There also nice background on the influence of the experimental Europeans (Kraftwerk, Moroder) on black Detroit in the late seventies – if you don’t know the story, it’s all laid out in detail – though fifteen years on some of his points have been recycled to infinity (Doesn’t everyone’s mum know who wrote Autobahn these days? Well, maybe not.)
A classic, informative read.
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