As for Morillo himself… I don’t claim to be anyone known in electronic music, but I did have a brief flash in the pan period of relative success in the music industry here in Canada and the US, and it was a pretty open secret that he was complete scum around women. He hit on a female friend of mine (more like openly groped her) so hard at a gig we were at in Toronto that she ran away crying and couldn’t get away fast enough.
I can understand people wanting to eulogize his music and separate him from the person he was, but it can get pretty blurry where people draw the line in between the person’s art (which can be amazing) and the ‘artist’ being a piece of shit. I love what Betoko produces musically, but he absolutely battered the shit out of a woman I knew quite well who was his fiance and was convicted for the crime. Michael Jackson has had multiple accusations thrown at him about abusing children, yet I won’t deny I love his music.
That’s an aspect of things I can understand the conundrum people face when trying to come to terms when someone who has died that has influenced them greatly turns out was a real piece of shit human being. What I DO NOT understand is when people start saying shit like, ‘I only ever knew Eric to be nice to me and a gracious host, blah, blah, blah’ and try to downplay the rather rampant accusations and known open secrets about someone’s poor behaviour - which has happened way too much with Morillo from the all male DJ/producer types who eulogized him after his death. That made me pretty sick.
Lastly, I’m not sure if it has been mentioned or not but the woman who brought charges against Eric is Roger Sanchez’s wife. Can you imagine if you were Roger Sanchez and your wife stays at one of your best mates house in a spare room, only to find out the day after your best mate raped her? I’d fucking kill the guy! Not only is it wrong because you know, rape, but that just shatters every bro code rule ever written. That’s downright fucking scum right there.
