Re: (313) To Richie's Credit (was NY Times)

From Lester Kenyatta Spence
Sent Wed, Mar 22nd 2000, 20:01

yeah...journey to the hardcore.

when me and my wife got there, the wizard was spinning.  we hadn't heard
him in a while.....so we wanted to chill in the techno room first.  but
the vibe was soooooooo different and really alien to us that we quickly
jetted into the house room.  where we grooved until the early dawn....

peace
lks

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         Lester Kenyatta Spence     xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx 
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         University of Michigan

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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Holly C MacDonald-Korth wrote:

> would that have been "Journey through the hardcore"? where, during moby's set
> the lasers spelled out "RAVE" and i believe i recall him chanting "come on rave"
> over his hideous music....
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> peace,
> holly
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> Lester Kenyatta Spence <xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> on 03/22/2000 02:43:04 PM
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> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, mitch buchannon wrote:
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> > wrong
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> > The reason I'm not sure
> > >that I buy this is because techno had already made the leap to Europe
> > >before Hawtin blew up....and when it made its way back in the form of rave
> > >music, it seems to me that Hawtin got caught up IN that scene
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> Wait a second.  In either 1992 or 1993 I attended a gig at the Majestic
> with 16 DJ's.....8 in a "techno" room and another 8 in a "house" room.
> The house room was filled with the house heads I grew up with...all black.
> The techno room was filled with a markedly younger, white audience.  Hung
> out in Pittsburg in that same year.....and walked by the room of a young
> white woman with nothing but techno posters hanging up on the wall.  Gigs
> in the Pitt, in Iowa....in KENTUCKY.
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> So when you say "wrong" is it that you have some information I'm not
> privvy to.....or is there something else at work here?
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> peace
> lks
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