Mad Mike Interview

UR071...

also true in hip hop, leaving producers without online access, digital distribution etc.

Just saying.

OTOH it's hard to argue that this isn't at least a more constructive fantasy than coke-rap fantasy

I have no truck with "more opportunity for people from Detroit" but that isn't UR's politics - their politics are a kind of manifesto for overthrowing some conspitaorial new world order through sonic terrorism, hence the "UR - revolution for change" slogan, when it should really be "UR - well executed electronic music that has almost no political significance at all". I'm not denying that the fascinations with Native American Indians, Bruce Lee, Mr Spock etc (see sleeve of 1st Intergalactic Baptist Church for full roll call of UR heoes and influences) doesn't add a certain mystique to UR, just that it doesn't give them any more political gravitas (in my eyes) than 99% of other decent dance acts.

Japanese music technology, The fax machine and the development of the internet. Three technologies that functioned as transporter beams for our purpose.

t/s: mike banks using metaphor vs mike banks think the fax machine works via a beam

I don't. he's black and from detroit.

Japanese music technology, The fax machine and the development of the internet. Three technologies that functioned as transporter beams for our purpose.

t/s: using the term "transporter beams for our purpose" v "helped us get our music out to our audience"

I don't. he's black and from detroit.[/i]

Wow so being black and from detroit means he's stupid?

Don't see whats so fake about his politics, black people are still opressed by tv, radio and the press

Wow so being black and from detroit means he's stupid?

Of course not, that was a joke. Vahid appeareed to be suggesting that some of "Mad" Mike's eccentric outpourings were metaphorical while I was taking them literally, which was not the case. If Mike Banks is smart enough to make the far thinking music he makes (I suggested at the outset that I was a fan) then I'm sure that he's capable of using metaphor. However, whether metaphorical or literal, many of his political outporings are horesehit. Certainly not fake, though.

T/S: sensible debates v posting stupid cartoons
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