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Detroit – Movement Weekend 2010
My first Detroit music festival weekend is in the books. It only took me 17 years to get myself in gear and now I feel more passionate about the music, people, and city than I ever did before. In five … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Shakir, DEMF, detroit, festival, Kirk Degiorgio, kyle hall, Mike Banks, Movement, orlando voorn, UR
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Music Institute 20th Anniversary 12″ Pt. 1 – NDATL
There are those clubs that loom in the imagination of music devotees and depending on where your allegiances lie they may differ drastically. But for anyone claiming the slightest interest in techno’s history they should recognize the seminal Detroit club … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Anniversary, Alton Miller, Chez Damier, club, D Wynn, Derrick May, detroit, house, Kai Alce, Music Institute, NDATL, record, review, techno
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Black Secret Technology
“Alita’s Dream” comes from Guy Called Gerald’s Black Secret Technology album and is one of many songs from it that 14 years later finally speaks to me. Coming off a bit like a drum & bass version of his 808 … Continue reading
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Tagged acid house, black secret technology, drum and bass, gerald simpson, guy called gerald, uk
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IMPS – Remixed
Plucked from the IMPS ’08 album Bring Out The Imps on Mule Electronic, the recent spurt of remix EPs (titled bluntly enough as Remixed Volume 1, 2 and 3) work like a triptych honoring the capricious jazz informed original work and in … Continue reading
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Tagged IMPS, Isolee, Jan Jelinek, Minilogue, Move D, Mule Electronic, remix, remixed, review, Strategy, Thomas Fehlmann
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Genre-fication
I remember a time when genres meant almost nothing, back in ’92-’93 when I really started to mine the ‘dance’ page (yes, I do mean that in terms of singularity in most cases) of British music mags like NME, … Continue reading
Hello world!
I just decided to enter the world of blogging. Looking forward to writing about music that may not be getting as much attention or just plain digging up old records that are still meaningful to me. Keep your eye out … Continue reading