Juan Atkins controversy

[morbid]

dont you feel that some of the people who are mentioned as early pioneers to a large extent live off that reputation and failed to develop anything further after the initial boom.

I only ask because you dont see the same bickering around other genres of music (or more accurately genres of modern dance music)

There is no great debate over the claim to dubsteps birth or similarly to drum and bass / uk jungle - you could credit A Guy called Gerald with being a drum and bass pioneer but I dont hear him banging on about it and you rarely hear anyone in Drum and Bass nowadays citing him as an influence, its just the way the music developed. He went onwards in a different direction. The whole progression from early hardcore to jungle to drum and bass was just that a progression which is exactly what detroit techno was in its earliest inception - a progression from the (mainly) black musical flavours of that period - disco soul funk mixed with the new technology of the time.

I follow the argument that the technology allowed the sound not the so called creators. Techno could have been born 10 years earlier if companies like Linn and Roland had released those key instruments in the early 70's

Side note - Blake Baxter is the only one out of those early adopters that I still consider fresh in that he has continually developed his own sound and not looked to past conquests for his inspiration.

I expect others will take a different view.........