From r. kidwell Sent Tue, Jun 29th 1999, 21:15
> agreed. I never said that autechre was a rap ban who's missing an mc. I just > thought it was a hilareous statement to say that there aren't hip-hop > influences in SOME of their stuff. I think goz quarter is a fine exanple of > this. > I'm pretty sure I've read that rob & sean were (and maybe are) hip hop heads > long before autechre happened, which would explain why to use the word > "influence" wouldn't be so crazy. yeah, there totally needs to be two words to signify the difference between "influence" as in "they listened to a lot of this and it has had an effect on them" and "influence" as in "this music has a distinct discernible relation to this other kind of music..." ,rj../