Tag: Culture of Detroit
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The Ten Rules of Techno
“You’ve invented educational techno” goes the first comment on this video, and pretty much sums it up, Oscar from Underdog goes through the rules in under 5 minutes with a banging acid track. I wish all music lessons were this much fun! Video makes me think oddly of Adventures in Success by Will Powers…and the…
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RIP Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire
= Really sad to hear of the death of Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire fame aged 65. As someone who has family links to Sheffield and did my degree there, and even used to hang around the very cemetery where the Sensoria video was filmed (Meersbrook represent! Well, no-one was there, it was dawn)…
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PSSU Fearless & Avery
Something that slipped out late last year, PSSU – Richard Fearless and man of the moment Daniel Avery – is some really tripped out techno, very deep and hypnotic. Reminds me of some of the classic bleep/hypnotic techno coming out of Warp and Detroit around 1990-1992. Interestingly the video for me also reminds of that…
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RIP Aretha
Sad to hear about the death of Aretha Franklin. She’s been ill for a long time, but no-one ever took the crown of the Queen of Soul. Here she is in her great cameo in The Blues Brothers.
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Mashup Say, Mashup Do
A sample search and a post over in Facebook by Lee 10,000 Spoons reminded me – one of the people I mentally fingered (oo-er) for the First Mashup show was Westbam – but for some reason forgot – his classic Alarm Clock was, if a little repetitive and pre-figuring the techno revolution, one of mashup’s…
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Carl Craig’s techno orchestra
Check out the wonderful ‘At les’ which is Detroit’s Carl Craig making the “Les Siècles ” Orchestra + the pianist Francesco Tristano funky and techno 😀 Thanks to Eric Kleptone for the nod 😉