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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Its an interesting read but frankly it could be about any large urban US city, it is inane to think Prince couldn't have come from 20 or more US cities
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The article should have mentioned
Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound. This was unique to the Twin Cities.
http://www.numerogroup.com/d/purple-...neapolis-sound
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Bubbling up from the snow-blanketed land of 10,000 lakes, the Minneapolis Sound defied expectations, emerging late in the ’70s as a slick, black, technologically advanced fusion, poised to storm the charts. In relative silence, the Twin Cities had been harboring a tight-knit community feverishly at work in radically manipulating American dance music, varnishing futurist funk with guitar rock’s glamorous sheen.
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