utd state 2006
i remember the first time i heard techno music. it was 1990. it changed the way i looked at everything.
until that point, i had been fearfully reluctant to listen to synthetic music, the same fear i saw in the eyes of the indie rockers. i think the only reason i actually listened to it was to confirm my fear. a fear of something so seemingly in-organic and cold. probably the same fear that fed the folkies' retreat from electric rock in the 60s. i always felt so sorry for these kids, that they were missing out on something so unlike anything that had ever happened before, and for what? why were they so afraid to join in on the fun? funny thing is, house and techno always had so much more feeling and depth than any of the indie rock crap that i heard working in record stores throughout the decade.
the music i'm referring to was from the band 808 state, a manchunian interpretation of detroit techno. the songs 'magical dream' and 'pacific' are to this day some of the most beautiful musics i've ever heard. i had borrowed the cassete along with the first deelite album and i think something from the fall or something else along those lines as at the time was the sort of music i was listening too. at that point, i stopped listening to guitar music.
it was like the first time i'd eaten mushrooms. all the walls came down.
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