Smallman1 Glad he’s brown bread.

That’s a bit racist, ed!

Who is going to be outed next in hte electronic scene? Surely some of those minimal djs have to be absolute fucking deviants?

      -si-
      Is ‘50/50’ or ‘Best of both’ the only way to avoid flaunting my white male privilege in this crazy mixed up world Si?

        Notable that “Are you ready for some more” was the sequel to “Move it”. I take it that Erick had a hand in the song titles.

        In the same way that the George Floyd protests sparked the long-overdue realisation that the electronic music industry was racist to the core (something that Black people have always known), the outpouring of fawning tributes for Erick Morillo has yet again reminded women, trans women and non-binary people in the scene of how little they matter in the eyes of their male peers.

        I stopped reading after that paragraph…

        TLDR

        Can someone summarise, only if interesting enough, pls. K, thx…

          -si- Jesus wept, if disco and house was racist, they would literally have never started in the first place.

              Sorry what? I think you mean ‘Jesus whept’

              Definitely a yank penned that article…

              Homegrove The origins of disco, house and techno are black. The journalist is clickbaiting and clearly has little grasp of house music past or present. In any case, what’s it got to do with Erick Morillo, a well known and celebrated black DJ

                The origins of disco, house and techno are black and queer.

                • Dan replied to this.

                  Met Chloe a few times over the years. DJed at a night with her once too and she was always sound.

                  You have to laugh when a “serious” article is embedded within an outsized picture of two faceless bikini clad babes

                  …the origins of disco and house are indeed black (and gay), but to say this relates to the way that young clubbers perceive them today is shortsighted.

                  This is the same article that I linked to earlier in the thread… ‘racist to the core’ is probably hyperbole, but there was definitely a realisation that the dance music ‘industry’ failed to be vocal enough in the wake of Floyd/BLM and that the real history you reference is much too readily glossed-over.

                  Detroit has been repeatedly under-acknowledged by euro techno artists… RA, Mixmag etc. and loads of big name jocks that should know better who have all profited from the ‘scene’ were notably reluctant to reveal their stance on BLM. Then you’ve got knob jockeys like Guetta that think that playing the ‘I have a dream’ acapella over some Mickey Mouse EDM track will fix racism…

                  I can definitely see parallels between this and the confused reaction to Morillo.

                    Unbroken1 These are all separate issues that have little connection to Morillo’s rampant sexual abuse of women. Funny how a journalist can digress to such a degree that they flip the egregious behaviour and crimes of a celebrated black DJ into an issue of race and BLM. And all with semi clad babes on the cover!