Robert Hood - Live from Detroit - Junction 2: Connections

Robert Hood plays an exclusive DJ set from Detroit for Junction 2: Connections.
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[@gilli.A.]

Justice and Quality!!!

[@Flashback_Jack]

I like Robert, but the politics poisons the mood. Some are worse than others and frankly they should sit in a corner all by themself and those willing to put up with them while the rest of us enjoy music without the preaching. We get anough of that shit on Facebook as it is.

[@alchemistbox]

Disagree; there is nothing wrong with being passionate about wanting change and incorporating that into your music or the platform that enables you to voice that.

[@Flashback_Jack]

@@alchemistbox It alienates people. Not gonna name names for fear of KZbin getting stupid on me, but I was recently blocked on social media for saying a mere seven words to a famous techno DJ who loves to wax stupid about politics I'm sure he pays zero attention to: "Sorry man, love your mixes but I disagree." That person turned out to be the bitter and intolerant asshole I suspected he was. I've said it before but I understand techno has been billed as "resistance music" and some have made related points on that in the distant past, but I rather see it as speculative music--music that sees the future as either optimistic or dystopic. Now however we've got factions in the industry that want to do shit like "make techno black again" and lament that somehow white people are disenfranchising blacks and the originators. There may be some merit to that argument, but it's ultimately poisonous. People just need to do their thing and the success will come if they work hard enough. The way I look at it is that techno seems to be entering another golden age, with young producers--many of them white and with professional music education--pushing the artform further and better. Artists like CRAVO and Fabrizio Rat are just the tip of the iceberg in that sense. History is always important to bear in mind of course, but as long as the artform is improved by whoever picks it up regardless of their melanin count--all the better.

[@stephenpalenske5884]

You think this is about politics? You're out of your mind. Even if you don't agree, surely you can see what the need for this is right now, or for the past hundreds of years. I'll pray for you and for the country either way...

[@Flashback_Jack]

@@stephenpalenske5884 It's ALWAYS about politics. Have you heard Robert's latest tracks? He basically samples entire speeches by Black Lives Matter blowhards into his tracks. Besides, aside from the rare one off, the closest thing to "justice" and "equality" has already been achieved in the U.S.--just look at what a person can achieve if their mixtape goes a long way, for example. Arguably not even in Canada where I live does a person have the sheer amount of opportunity to make onself filthy rich than what's available there. There's a reason the U.S.A. is called the land of (equal) opportunity. Those that fail to take advantage of it seem to love begging for (equal) outcomes, especially the under thirty crowd who have been taught by their Humanities professors to pretend they're victim to some nonexistent oppressor and therefore can't overcome their indoctrination to realize that they too can make good use of their freedom, recognizing the sky's the limit in terms of what they can achieve.

[@Buffysbuffet]

Dude was a part of Underground Resistance. A very prominent, important, and blatantly political techno group from Detroit. Their song titles invoked change from what they were seeing around them. Stuff like police brutality, racism, poverty made because of red lining and some areas being gentrified in more recent years. If you don't like his beliefs, then you may not like his music. Politics of racism has been rooted in Techno since the start. We wouldn't have this music, this movement of change, if it wasn't for the root in progressive ideals. Also, most genres have some ounce of politics in them. Rock has theirs, Punk (at least when it started) was not quiet about its beliefs in anarchism, Hip Hop has the same beliefs that Techno inherently does just a lot rougher and visible, Pop as a whole doesn't but there are pop acts in the underground that have their beliefs in change and progression. Country is a beast that I am not that educated on, but I think you can grasp what I am getting at. Music reflects what it is made around. Hell, Reggae and Dub has roots in politics. If you don't like it, don't listen. Just make sure you actually research the music's history. Is it all serious, no. It doesn't have to be. Just at least beware there are political roots in most forms of music.