"The thesis of DeForrest Brown Jr's book Assembling a Black Counter Culture was always interesting to me. It didn't get the attention it should have when it dropped. It's hard to get people to pay attention to the history of Black music - hip-hop, yes, but techno gets left out of the story. The way I've understood America is through what Black people say. The truth about America? It's 400 years of slavery and violence."
"As Brown points out, techno is Black music for the post-civil rights era of deindustrialisation, when the grand Fordist dream was starting to fall apart. Techno proposed a different kind of future from the ruins. Raving is not transcendence, resistance or utopia - it is a collaborative art form for which we will always need rich and varied languages."
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