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1. Kaga Said,

   November 18, 2008 @ 13:07:03

   umm, just because you invent a few things and force democracy on a few countries doesn't mean you have a culture

2. Saunderson Said,

   November 18, 2008 @ 13:30:02

   Wow! Everyone should calm down and take the music as it is. No colors on the music please. I'm from Detroit and I feel great about anything the city births. Lord knows we need all the positive things we can get. this music is fot the world to enjoy.

3. Worrell Said,

   November 18, 2008 @ 13:53:01

   srotagadirolf you sound like a real prick... Being from the UK have travelled around the world, US also, and met many US DJs/producers along with other nationalities... Your attitude sucks..it wasnt a black / white or anything else for that matter ITS ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC YA HEAR! I dont seem to remember meeting Juan Atkins and him not talking to me because I am white AND english...we talked because of the M U S I C Enjoy your next meet at the Black Panthers...

4. Arlyn Said,

   November 18, 2008 @ 14:16:00

   Yep, we don't have a culture. YouTube isn't an american idea. Yep, you're free 'cause we defend your sorry ass. Stop talking trash about a country you know very little about. Or better yet, never bite the hand that feed you. Your cocky bs doesn't work. Go back to your third world socialist bs country and wish you were a citizen in the US.

5. EUGENIA Said,

   November 18, 2008 @ 14:38:59

   Iv'e said my point ! Your cultureless multinational debt ridden tosser ;-) Wont bother replying to this so give up

6. SOBK Said,

   November 18, 2008 @ 15:01:58

   ...and your point is...? Also, it's what we americans KNOW! Now run along

7. TAITHLEACH Said,

   November 18, 2008 @ 15:24:57

   Your american so you would think that ! Read any literature on it and Krafwerk's name will keep croping up

8. Xalbadora Said,

   November 18, 2008 @ 15:47:56

   Black people, white people, wtf!?!?!? MUSIC IS FOR EVERYONE TO ENJOY!!! Music does not have a colour! It has emotion and power!!

9. MAYMUNAH Said,

   November 18, 2008 @ 16:10:55

   no, it's the fascination of those drum machines back in the day that inspired them. Heck, most of the stuff back then was more R&B based anyway and that isn't Kraftwerk or any other electro euro band's influence. You don't get "funky" from euros!

10. MOSI Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 16:33:54

    "It seems like it bugs you to admit that African Americans created it!!!" Yup, and that's where most euros won't acknowlege where most, if not all, of the dance music comes from. Just like most genres that black people come up with (blues, electric blues, dance music) black people develop it, play with it for a while, get bored and move to something else. I'm waiting for us to get bored with hip hop/rap.

11. STOCKARD Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 16:56:53

    as derrick may says, people are ignorant, and even Detroit's electronic dance scene is pretty dead. its pushed to the booshy up-scale house scene, or the underground afterhours....go to all the main clubs, all hip hop.

12. Rylan Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 17:19:52

    FULL POWER

13. EDLIN Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 17:42:51

    It seems like it bugs you to admit that African Americans created it!!!

14. MICHIO Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 18:05:50

    and where do you think kraftwerk got their funky rhythmical influences? black music of the 60s.

15. Shaan Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 18:28:49

    Electronica is a media created term. Please stop using it lol. Techno came from Detroit's House scene which was influenced by Chicago's house scene. Kraftwerk were an influence on the Belleville three's work, but it was still a fully African American effort in its creation. Techno would have never have happened anywhere else.

16. Capucine Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 18:51:48

    Sorry this user say it before me :) Well the thing that I would say is that the matter of electronical music is that is an universal music. Is like say that mathematics we're developed by only one culture. Each one made his own contribution to develope it. That's the reason why we can found so much styles of electronical music like electro, techno, minimal, house, big beat, drum'n bass, idm, ambient and so on... And his own derivates.

17. ERIK Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 19:14:47

    Yes in Detroit was developed Techno as an electronic music style. But don't forget that it derives directly form german, belgian and other european electronica. Also most of the technology used for made it come from Japan like one user says after me! The developement of electro also derives from japanese 8bit computer games soundtracks! I think that Detroit is an important part of the chain in the evolution of electronical music as we undertand today but not the start and fortunately not the end

18. Fannia Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 19:37:46

    I am pretty sure it has to do with the Racism in America and the fact the average American thinks Techno is from Europe. Detroit is kind looked down upon as this place that has no intellectual value. Yes Europe made alot of contributions but they also introduced drugs to the music, to many folks dismay.

19. Gavriel Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 20:00:45

    Juan speeks true about your enviroment lending a hand in making music from the heart

20. Orvin Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 20:23:44

    ITs bands like Kraftwerk that inspired the likes of juan and afrian bamaaattaa.....with out there infuances music would be very different today. Who wants plastic pop music anyway ?

21. Corvin Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 20:46:43

    Why does a kind of separatism have to always engulf this music. Sheffield,England and Brussels,Belguim and also Berlin Germany all have a major part to play in the development of this field. It's not black nor is it white,most of the instruments were conceived of and made in Japan.So fuck all you colour supremicists. It's music to be enjoyed,and a scene to be embraced. Detroit plays a major part in this.Let the mission continue......

22. Kitty Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 21:09:42

    it is african american music . is hight tech soul.

23. Chana Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 21:32:41

    ooohhh ok, techno music has an african american vibe, black DJ's put the style, cool ¡¡¡

24. Mikele Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 21:55:40

    in reality the pionners in electronica were european krafwerk, tangerine dream , but detroit define electronic music as techno , they create the style.

25. ASELMA Said,

    November 18, 2008 @ 22:18:39

    yeah, many people thinks about techno as an european invention

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