“A lot of Black artists that were instrumental in innovation get forgotten,” says Detroit techno legend Juan Atkins, “or purposefully white washed.” His comments play out over footage of Little Richard performing ‘Tutti Frutti’, electrifying, raw and sexy, giving way to the then-more acceptable cover version by Pat Boone, cosy, sexless and dull. The same thing has happened with Detroit’s early electronic music, with David Guetta – white, European, younger – getting credited as the “grandfather”of the genre. It’s a misconception that Kristian R. Hill’s God Said Give Em Drum Machines aims to set right, though it loses its way somewhat on the journey.
New York was the birthplace of hip hop, and Chicago gave us house, but it was Detroit where dance music created entirely with electronic instruments – drum machines and synths rather than samples and scratched vinyl – was pioneered by a handful of young Black men; Juan Atkins,...
New York was the birthplace of hip hop, and Chicago gave us house, but it was Detroit where dance music created entirely with electronic instruments – drum machines and synths rather than samples and scratched vinyl – was pioneered by a handful of young Black men; Juan Atkins,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Marc Burrows
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
White people have stolen music from black people for decades and then some. This is a matter of historical record. No surprise, then, that white musicians stole techno, too. Kristian R. Hill’s documentary “God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines” purportedly runs down techno’s long journey from Detroit to Germany, from the hands of black artists to European ones, from the 1980s to the 2000s and beyond; one of Hill’s main subjects, Juan Atkins, lays the groundwork for making this case very early in the film, citing Pat Boone’s lifting Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” as just one instance among many others of white mediocrity diluting black genius.
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- 6/14/2022
- by Andrew Crump
- The Playlist
New documentaries on T. Rex, Leonard Cohen, and Lil Baby are among the films set to screen at the 2022 Tribeca Festival (formerly known as the Tribeca Film Festival), taking place June 8 through 19 in New York City.
Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex, was written and directed by Ethan Silverman, and will get its premiere at Tribeca. The film pairs a deep dive into Bolan’s life and career with a look at the making of the 2020 T. Rex tribute album (also titled Angelheaded Hipster), which was...
Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex, was written and directed by Ethan Silverman, and will get its premiere at Tribeca. The film pairs a deep dive into Bolan’s life and career with a look at the making of the 2020 T. Rex tribute album (also titled Angelheaded Hipster), which was...
- 4/19/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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