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<title>DJ Godfather</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:04:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Electro enthusiast and Detroit Techno contributor DJ Godfather oversees the union between b-boys and Techno heads with his retro-futuristic vision. Tinny Electro stabs fly low over bulky beats and deep, intergalactic basslines against a wobbly veil of melodic synths. Often grouped with Motor City contemporaries AUX 88, Drexciya and Mad Mike Banks, DJ Godfather's lukewarm dance floor vibes drop out the human element to make room for machines.
- Melissa Piazza]]></description>
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<title>John Beltran</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 08:27:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Like many of his Detroit techno peers, John Beltran's work ranges between jazz, Latin music and sleek, soulful electronics. Beltran began producing in the early '90s, becoming labelmates with Carl Craig when his debut EP, <I>Earth and Nightfall</I>, was released on the 33rpm Records / Sinewave imprint; releases for Peacefrog and Apollo solidified his reputation as an unusually deep purveyor of ambient techno. The 1996 release <I>Ten Days of Blue</I>, with its shimmering arpeggios and fluid grace, remains an under-appreciated high point for Detroit techno's most melodic phase. Moving in the '00s to labels like Ubiquity and Exceptional, Beltran began delving deeper into soul, jazz and various Latin styles, but despite his ambitions, he never let go of his ability to make music sound unusually liquid, with congas bubbling up beneath waves of Rhodes, horns and voice.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Audion</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since 1999, Texas-born techno producer Matthew Dear has been producing cutting edge Detroit-style minimal techno and electro-pop under various monikers, including Audion, False and Jabberjaw. As a key artist on Ghostly International, Dear has had a successful avenue for putting out multiple releases, including 2003's "Dog Days" (a Richie Hawtin favorite) and, as Audion, 2006's "Mouth to Mouth". In 2007, he released the critically acclaimed <i>Asa Breed</i> under his own name, marking a move into expanded songwriting and softer, more contemplative sonics.
- Fil Rodriguez]]></description>
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<title>Matthew Dear</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:44:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since 1999, Texas-born techno producer Matthew Dear has been producing cutting edge Detroit-style minimal techno and electro-pop under various monikers, including Audion, False and Jabberjaw. As a key artist on Ghostly International, Dear has had a successful avenue for putting out multiple releases, including 2003's "Dog Days" (a Richie Hawtin favorite) and, as Audion, 2006's "Mouth to Mouth". In 2007, he released the critically acclaimed <i>Asa Breed</i> under his own name, marking a move into expanded songwriting and softer, more contemplative sonics.
- Fil Rodriguez]]></description>
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<title>Inner City</title>
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<category>House</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:41:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Led by Kevin Saunderson, Inner City were true pioneers in the world of House and Techno. Combining roots in Gospel and Soul with clubwise beats and the sultry vocals of Paris Grey, their accessible sound helped clear a path for all the Garage and Deep House to follow.
- Mike Schulman]]></description>
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<title>Cybotron</title>
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<category>Electro-Funk</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 08:33:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This is the band that Juan Atkins was in before he went on to invent the Detroit Techno sound. One can find here the roots of Techno and Ambient as well as some period pieces. Rik Davis, Atkins, and Jon S. stretch the available technology to its limits in creating habitable Ambient soundscapes. Their Roland synths still emit identifiable keyboard sounds, and the drum loops are definitely pre-909. But don't expect a pure batch of proto-rave material; this band wreaks havoc on genre. For example, be prepared for a journey back to early '80s New Wave-influenced Goth Rock and marvel at the fact that you're not listening to the Cure.]]></description>
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<title>The Juan Maclean</title>
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<category>Alt Dance</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:11:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You might not have expected that incendiary '90s indie rockers Six Finger Satellite would spawn a dance-music revivalist. But that's the transformation that 6FS guitarist John MacLean went through after the band folded in the wake of its singer's death and he eventually hooked up with former 6FS sound engineer James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. MacLean debuted his articulated, Latin-leaning alias on Murphy's DFA label with 2002's "By the Time I Get to Venus," a rollicking anthem that splits the difference between Detroit techno and dance-punk. Three years later, <I>Less Than Human</I> proved even more ambitious, pulling together elements of Italo disco and Chicago house in a combined love letter to classic dance music and vintage synthesizers. He really hit his stride with 2008's "Happy House," its euphoric piano loops jibing precisely with a classic-house revival. Nancy Whang, the song's vocalist, assumed a starring role on 2009's <I>The Future Will Come</I>, a retro-obsessed effort that also finds MacLean stepping out of his comfort zone as a singer.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>As One</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:32:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kirk Degiorgio is a man obsessed with soulful music, from the 1970s electric Fusion experiments of Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis and the Motor City soul of early Detroit Techno to the newest developments in hip-hop and R&B. His teenage record-collecting habit kicked into overdrive in the late '80s when he was bit by the Acid House bug, a period that culminated with pilgrimages to Detroit and Chicago, as well as the formation of his highly influential A.R.T. label. The early '90s saw A.R.T. releasing classic records by B-12, the Black Dog, Carl Craig and Degiorgio's best known alias, As One. Throughout the decade, Degiorgio put out a string of immaculately conceived EPs and LPs under that name on labels such as New Electronica, Shield, Clear and Mo Wax. House, Techno, jazz, Breakbeat and Electro are part of his palette, and his records frequently combine flavors of each style into a deep, soulful sound. Known worldwide as a true music fan, he is always in demand as a DJ, remixer and collaborator.
- Mike Schulman]]></description>
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<title>DJ Assault</title>
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<category>Electro-Funk</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 08:58:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Filthy party tracks that splice together the nasty bass bump of the Miami sound with old-fashioned Detroit Electro and a dash of Dancemania-style booty House. Relentlessly stoopid dancefloor tunes spiced up by tight production, wicked scratching and blistering tempos.
- Mike Schulman]]></description>
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<title>Carl Craig</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the world of Detroit techno, there are originators and cornerstones. Though Carl Craig was born too late to be the former, he's unequivocally become the latter. A major part of the scene's Second Wave, C2 has elevated Motor City machine music, expanding the language of the dancefloor to incorporate everything from post-punk to jazz. Craig began making his own tracks in the late 1980s after working at the studio of techno innovator Derrick May. Working under a variety of pseudonyms (Psyche and Paperclip People, among them) while recording for and guiding his label Planet E, Craig has flowed effortlessly from ambient drones to proto-broken beat future jazz and beyond. Early classics reimagined drum 'n' bass (1992's "Bug in a Bass Bin") and reinvented minimal house music (1994's "Throw"). Collaborations with the likes of Herbie Hancock and Francesco Tristano enabled his entry into modern jazz and classical circles. And his relentless remixing career has made hits for artists as disparate as Tori Amos, Cesaria Evora and Junior Boys (which garnered him a Grammy nomination in '07). Two decades into his career, Craig is a Detroit techno legend whose vitality remains undiminished.
- Piotr Orlov]]></description>
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<title>Model 500</title>
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<category>Techno</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:21:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For more than ten years, Model 500 served as the alias for Detroit deity Juan Atkins' Electro-driven Techno madness. Whipping freakish dancefloors into frenzies since the mid-1980s, Atkins' tunes set the standard for the Detroit Techno style by serving up swift, robotic beats, oddly funky basslines and inhuman sound effects. Model 500's first release "No UFO's" proved to be a classic upon its first appearance in 1985.
- Melissa Piazza]]></description>
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<title>Metro Area</title>
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<category>House</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:37:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Octave One</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:14:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Underground Resistance</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Defining Detroit's Underground Resistance is like trying to handcuff a shadow. Part production team, part guerilla art collective and part record label, UR has been operating under a cloak of secrecy since the late '80s, with its rotating membership using myriad aliases. Here's what we do know: UR was essentially the brainchild of Jeff Mills, Mike Banks (aka Mad Mike) and Robert Hood. Right from the get-go, the trio revolutionized techno with a pulverizing aesthetic that reflected their interests in black militancy, Marxist politics and post-industrial sci-fi. Early releases like <I>Riot</I> and <I>Waveform</I> boiled Kraftwerk and Public Enemy down to their rhythmic essences and integrated them into Detroit techno. Mills and Hood departed in 1992, but Banks carried on, pushing UR into electro, avant-technoid boogie, breakbeats, drum 'n' bass and "hi-tech funk." Some of techno's most vital producers have crossed paths with UR's orbit, including Claude Young, Drexciya, James Pennington (aka the Suburban Knight) and others. Despite UR's dystopian critique of modern society, few techno labels have been so committed to digitizing its back catalog of uber-rare singles.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Josh Wink</title>
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<category>Techno</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:09:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia doesn't quite rank alongside Detroit, New York or Chicago in the annals of American house and techno, but don't blame Josh Wink: since he and King Britt founded Ovum Recordings in 1994, the formerly dreadlocked dance master has turned out classic after outsized classic to belie his "second city" standing. He first hit ravers' radars with the worldwide underground hits "Don't Laugh" and "Higher State of Consciousness." The latter, with its nimble breakbeat and spookily time-stretched vocal, offered an irresistible fusion of hardcore and acid house, and its standing in the dance-music canon was confirmed with multiple reworks over the years, both by Wink and others. An in-demand DJ, Wink showed versatility behind the decks with mixes like the <I>Profound Sounds</I> series. In 2009, he returned in full force with the studio album <I>When a Banana Was Just a Banana</I>, a collection of muscular, state-of-the-art tech-house that balanced purposeful grooves with cheeky detailing.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Kerowack</title>
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<category>House</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Echospace</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:58:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Cajmere</title>
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<category>House</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:12:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>John Acquaviva</title>
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<category>Techno</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:39:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Osborne</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Todd Osborn is a busy dude even by the industrial logic of the Detroit area, where he lives. He's a dedicated tinkerer, coding his own software, building strange machines and repairing the airplanes he also flies. (He's even reportedly at work on a hovercraft.) And that's just the moonlighting. Co-owner of Detroit's first drum 'n' bass record store, Dubplate Pressure, he went on to launch the Rewind label, where he collaborated (as Soundmurderer) with Tadd Mullinix (aka Dabrye, recording there as SK-1) on tough, biting ragga-jungle. He adopted Osborne for his more straight-ahead house and techno, releasing three cult-favorite EPs between 2002 and 2004 and returning from hiatus in 2007 with "Outta Sight." Ghostly sublabel Spectral Sound released his self-titled debut the following year; gathering together years worth of DAT tapes, it was refreshingly diverse but surprisingly coherent, lovingly gathering vintage styles like acid, disco and even freestyle.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Juan Atkins</title>
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<category>Techno</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Brandishing the title "godfather of Techno" like an all-access pass at a Kraftwerk show, this member of the Belleville Three towers over fellow Detroit classicists Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson in terms of commercial influence and critical acclaim. Poised at the onset of the history of electronica, Atkins produced essential releases under such names as Infiniti, Cybotron, and Model 500. Clinging to a carefully crafted Techno framework complicated with a delightful mass of buoying blips and bleeps, Atkins' curvy grooves are irresistibly funky and stoically melodic, like objects recovered from the deepest black holes in the Milky Way.
- Melissa Piazza]]></description>
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<title>The Suburban Knight</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:14:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Detroit Grand Pubahs</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Comprised of Paris The Black Fu and Andy Toth, this Detroit pair have hit it big in the U.K. because of the novelty song "Sandwiches." The boys' sound is rooted in pure Detroit Techno, with pumping, pure Electro beats steeped in funkiness and Paris' humorous vocals run through a vocoder, giving them a sped-up, cartoonish sound. Essentially, the song is incredibly simple and straightforward about its overriding theme: sex (hence, a big reason for its popularity). While the song isn't necessarily groundbreaking, and while they've yet to produce anything other than this single, ''Sandwiches'' is one of those songs that will stay in your head long after you've grown tired of it.
- Tim Pratt]]></description>
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<title>Kenny Larkin</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Critically acclaimed member of the Third Wave of Detroit innovators, Kenny Larkin makes his mark on electronic music's growing history with his emotive techno style. Highly influential to the European dance scene, Larkin's talents have earned him much-deserved international respect. Instilling a warm, human feel to an all-too-often mechanical medium, Larkin intersperses sharp Detroit Techno grooves with soft strains of Chicago house, quirky experimentalism, and jazz-inflected goodness. Comforting digital melodies and sheer Ambient washes balance out massive basslines and tough rhythms that hypnotize like a swinging pendulum to create a haunting soundscape of soulfully wordless musings.
- Melissa Piazza]]></description>
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<title>Sean Deason</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:54:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Morgan Geist</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:16:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Morgan Geist's Metro Area -- a duo with fellow DJ and producer Darshan Jesrani -- is rightly regarded as instrumental in disco's '00s revival, but Geist's solo career goes even deeper back. An early fan of synthesizer music, whether New Wave, industrial or disco, he was captivated early on by the sound of Detroit techno and its offshoots, and he wasted no time getting into the game himself: he released his first single in 1994, while he was still in college. He developed his sound -- a supple mix of electro-boogie, Italo, analog R'n'B and soulful techno -- across a string of records for labels like Dan Curtin's Metamorphic, Clear and his own Environ imprint, and his 1998 LP <I>Clear</I> remains a classic of jazz-inflected, Detroit-inspired techno. During the '00s, Geist largely focused his efforts on Metro Area, but he returned in 2008 with two excellent singles, "Most of All" and "Detroit," in advance of a new album for fall.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Plastikman</title>
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<category>Minimal/Glitch</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:39:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Richie Hawtin's trajectory through outer-Detroit Techno history has brought him closer and closer to detail and subtlety in sound. From Windsor, Ontario, just across the water and border from Detroit, Richie Hawtin's output as Plastikman has always been an austere approach to an already dry, refined sound. Over time, Plastikman's minimalist dance tracks became a study in beat minutia; each track like a page from <i>Gray's Anatomy</i> of rhythm. His music is a sublime soundtrack for deep contemplation and ecstatic escape. While his music is architecturally spacious, it is like wandering in a dark, empty warehouse that feels claustrophobic as your footfalls create slow slap-back and time and space lose reference. His muted beats and distant drones approach the level of self-contained musical tautologies that repeat and reinstate simple phrases with only minor, almost imperceptible changes. This space is far from the 4/4 bombast, but it is still organic and resonant. You can still feel it in your body.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>AUX 88</title>
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<category>Electro-Funk</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:14:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Theo Parrish</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:11:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A legend even within a city of legends, Theo Parrish wasn't one of Detroit's "first wave" of electronic-music producers, but he has created a sound as distinctive as any of his citymates', as well as a musical philosophy that reaches far beyond the norms of techno -- Detroit or otherwise. Born in 1972, Parrish began releasing soulful, minimalistic techno and house in the mid-'90s for labels like Moodymann's KDJ and Parrish's own Sound Signature. Folding long, sinewy strands of soul and jazz together with synths and drum machines, Parrish builds evolving grooves that span decades and shun labels. His eclectic DJ sets are as celebrated as his records, and you can hear his unconventional approach -- part collagist, part virtuoso -- in every off-kilter beat and unlikely chord of his productions. (As his tribute to Sun Ra attests, Parrish has an uncommon empathy for outsiders and visionaries.) Woozy, hypnotic and wonderfully tarnished, Theo Parrish's music can thrill and confound in equal measure -- which is precisely what makes its soul run so deep.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Cobblestone Jazz</title>
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<category>House</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Detroit Escalator Co.</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:47:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Moodymann</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Moodymann, aka Detroit's Kenny Dixon, Jr., has been both celebrated and castigated for his refusal to play the music-industry game -- good luck finding an interview with him -- and also for his insistence upon house and techno's essentially African-American character. (Given that electronic dance music's black American pioneers have often gone under-recognized, his polemics are understandable.) But politics falls by the wayside in Moodymann's music, which fuses the grinding, machinic rhythms of Chicago house and Detroit techno with suppler, more sensual sounds culled from jazz, disco and soul. Albums like <I>Mahogany Brown</I> and <I>Forevernevermore</I> prove Dixon to be a master arranger with an ear especially attuned to the nuances of crackly vinyl and bluesy drift, while epic cuts like "Shades of Jae" are rightly recognized worldwide as classic anthems capable of uniting all comers under their yearning, searching grooves.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Robert Hood</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:26:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Infiniti</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:32:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Aril Brikha</title>
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<category>Detroit/U.S. Techno</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:15:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With tracks comprising little besides soft, rounded basskicks and lead synth, Brilkha lays down some new, House-influenced Detroit Techno. The synths play in subtle swells and stabs around the deep, throbbing beats.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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