Hi, this is Nate with yet another preview of some of our bonus content available on Patreon.

You may have heard that Riley likes techno, for political reasons only, of course.

However, this week, Riley spoke with leftist techno producer, Aloyshow Wilmot, and my biases

as the producer notwithstanding. I found this discussion really, really interesting, even as someone

who's not really that into techno.

So here's a quick clip. I hope you enjoy. And if you want to listen to the whole conversation,

sign up on the Patreon today. Thanks. That weird, that M&M lyric, nobody listens to techno.

Yeah.

It feels weirdly anachronistic.

Like, it was right at the time, but now it just seems so hilariously

wrong. It was so ironic, considering like Eminem is from Detroit, you would think that somebody

from, yeah, so I'm thinking, um, a lot of that had to do with, um, just labels not wanting to bank on dance music anymore.

So if you look at like the 90s, specifically like the mid 90s up until, I want to say maybe 2000 to 2003, um, you could like, like like every like major pop rap single or whatnot would have like a

dance remix and like these big labels they were actually hire um underground producers to

kind of remix and make like a club single or whatever a pretty notable notable example is Mark Kinchin, aka M.K.

Like he would always like remix so many pop singles and whatnot.

And I guess what happened, labels they felt like with their PR teams,

they were just like, why should we spend our budget on this dance music thing when we can pay something?

It put more money into like cultivating another artist's image because they want something like visual, especially

with like the whole MTV music generation when people started consuming music from more

of like a visual standpoint. I think after that it just kind of like fell off.

But also there was also the point of view, and I remember this just I think after that, it just kind of like fell off. But also, there was also the

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