#Detroit Techno

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Juan Atkins & Eddie Fowlkes    

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W Świątyni Czarności i Kobiecości

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Dave Gahan & Derrick May

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The Mighty Death Pop! Box Set by Insane Clown Posse is Transgender!

requested by @rottingspiders

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New Order- Round & Round (1989)

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Tracklist:

Extra • Cocoa Mousse • Stretch • Ethos 9 • Moved By Air • Pause In Herbs • Frame Out • Endless Season

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

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Tresor’s 030313

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[yellowmanula]

DJs wanted! In December, we're organizing another edition of the Rave FM Audio Festival. It's an event broadcasted on FM radio waves in 3 cities in Poland, as well as online. DJs from all over the world take part. Every music genre is welcome, a great opportunity to showcase yourself to a new audience. Details in the event! :) Peace!

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[grandadofrad]

I accidentally haunt every song I make so I guess I'll just lean into it. Really channeling my inner Detroit's Filthiest on this one, with all due respect to the deadly serious bops. I was trying to teach myself to make a G Funk whistle. It's not done but it's getting there.

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ECOATM — S-T (Great Corner Sound)

Detroit invented techno in the 1980s and 1990s, fusing the android-synth propulsion of Kraftwerk to the hedonistic excesses of disco and Chicago house.In the years since, machine-tooled electronics have continued to flourish and bleed into other genres in the Wolverine State (see the Dirtbombs’ fabulous covers album, Party Store, reviewed here by Emerson Dameron).Much fertile ground, then, lays open for Dr. Pete Larson’s new Michigan-centric electronic imprint Great Corner Sound to explore.This opening salvo from ECOATM is a very good start.

Great Corner Sound is somewhat cagey about exactly who is involved in ECOATM, though Larson has hinted (broadly, see photo above) that Michigan all-arounder Fred Thomas (of His Name Is Alive, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Tyvek, Idle Ray, Winged Wheel, etc.)is the man behind the curtain.If so, it’s a radically new look for him.ECOATM doesn’t sound like any of his previous bands. 

The disc starts with skittery “Deluge,” an antic skirmish of drums and synthesizer that erupts periodically into full-on battery.It moves quickly and lightly, rattle-stomping barrages of terse snare and cymbals like gloves on a speed bag.“Stimulus Check” leaves more negative space between its thumps and rattles, an altered voice popping up on off-beats like a stuttery ghost.You can feel a drummer’s sensibility (again, maybe Thomas, maybe not) in the way these cuts box up time in tight, inelastic packages, a music made of points and vacancies, no colors.

Yet not everything is a rush and a clatter.Some of these cuts run surprisingly lyrical, with long echoing synth tones that sculpt otherworldly shapes in the air.“Glass Yard,” for instance, flickers and glows, nearly rhythmless as its bright notes blink on and off. “Dawnless” moves ponderously, a big drum boom punctuating the end of glittering glass-bead guitar lines.And “As You Said” floats in a percolating unreal synth space, the thump of kickdrum anchoring airy iterations of keyboard motifs.

It's all pretty good, surgically scrubbed but not unwelcoming, the kind of clean well-lighted sonic space that invites cogitation rather than bodily motion.Whoever made it (maybe Fred Thomas!) was from Michigan, continuing a mighty tradition of electronic experiment.Roll on Motor City.

Jennifer Kelly