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Funkadelic never said that a lecture is funkier than a party but they werent far off.
- during civilian hours, requires knowing some history.
In todays dance-music discourse, thats like being asked to eat your spinach.
Yet now more than ever, as Brooklyns club scene churns with money (real estate!)
Maybe not so much musically, as socially and economically.
Central to URs self-empowering approach was the collectives early decision to control all the modes of creativity and production.
A lot of times, the economic piece of it gets overlooked.
Handling your own business became among URs founding civic techno trademarks.
DJ Dex, a third-wave member, calls URs a blue-collar techno created for research and development purposes.
Harris calls these spaces responses, where people within communities were coming up with something better.
But it was interesting because this person really didnt understand what that meant and got a little upset.
I dont see [the refusal] as anything controversial or radical or whatever.
