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!

                  Unbroken1 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.

                  Is that not the same as kids into guitar based indie bands being less aware of the origins of blues etc…

                  Different times relate to the past differently, and the relation tends to fade over time.

                  Not sure it means people are being racist necessarily.

                  Guetta is a massive cunt though 🙂

                      alistair …I’ve outlined the connection, and don’t think it’s a stretch at all. Both are issues of denial of fact and a reluctance to speak-up on behalf of your peers, I’m not sure why this is such a difficult concept to grasp?

                      Like I said, I don’t think the language is helpful, and there are definitely clickbait-y aspects to it, but to say ’she’s got it wrong, she has no idea about the real origins of house music’ is an absurd simplification.

                          Mad_Cyril …yes it is, kinda. But house music is just 35′ish years-old, post civil rights and all that. Its amazing (shocking) how adept we are at erasing even recent history when it suits our needs, and I guess you could argue not speaking-up contributes to that

                              Unbroken1 he’s a rapist, he’s been enabled and indulged. We should be asking why and how and whether there are any more victims, abusive djs and what steps the scene needs to take to clean up its act. Those are the issues in hand here.

                                …that is literally what the article says.

                                Blimey.