From Maer Ben-Yisrael Sent Mon, Jul 19th 1999, 23:02
From Maer Ben-Yisrael Sent Mon, Jul 19th 1999, 23:02
this is the dumbest thing I've ever read on the IDM list. are you some sort of philistine? > > obviously you're missing my point. i NEVER implied that white people can't > listen to these genres. i'm white, i still enjoy these genre. race is not > an issue at all, it's CULTURE. my problem is when this music is > specifically watered down by suburbanites for suburban consumption. if > you're going to partake in other cultures, please have respect for the > culture. When someone feels a need to steal this culture and water it down > to make it more palatable for people of your own culture, that's sucks. > I still don't understand how you could have gotten the racial impression > from my previous post. > > and just to clarify, i have no problem with, say, much of the Mo' Wax > roster, Shadow, Vibert, Ninja Tuners, because these are people who are > doing it out of respect for hip hop, the problem enlies in the 'scene' that > was spawned, mainly from Mo' Wax and 'Endtroducing', where it was deemed > profitable to water down hip hop into a pigeon hole. >