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Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Journey of the Dragons (Galaxy 2 Galaxy, UR, 1993)
“OK, so I’m a sucker for the stargazing, hope-filled, melodic, simultaneously-eulogizing-and-celebrating side of techno. I’m not apologizing—and I’m pretty sure Mike Banks wouldn’t either. This is epic techno—not your giant crowd epic, but just the sort of elevating, heroic epic Detroit needs. When I think of the music and its relation to the city, or even the beauty of human beings creating music during their blip on time’s radar, I go back to Galaxy 2 Galaxy, and everything makes sense.” — Dan Sicko
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Scion A/V Presents: Moodymann Interview
…playing all the old school jams for you and your momma.
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Octave One - Eniac (Detroit Techno City II, 430 West, 1996)
Soulful but minimal, above all very introspective; this is where minimal techno splits up. Octave One’s music is the body of a record gathering Robert Hood’s soul and Maurizio’s mind.
Apt comment on Discogs on the Burden brothers’ 1998 release, The Collective.
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Mix: Carl Craig @ DEMF (2009-05-25)
C2 throwing down on his box at Movement 2009, Detroit. No tracklist for this one. Download on SoundCloud.
(Photo credit: digidug)
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Planet (E)volution
Q&A with Carl Craig at the Red Bull Music Academy 2002 in São Paulo, Brazil.
In years to come, techno will be pored over and historicised and whatever the fate of the brave new world’s music, a handful of names will have been immortalised through it. Carl Craig’s is one.
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Drexciya - Davey Jones Locker (True People: The Detroit Techno Album, React, 1996)
This is Drexciyan Cruise Control Bubble 1 to Lardossan Cruiser 8-203 X. Please decrease your speed to 1.788.4 kilobahn.
Laidback underwater rhythm. Class. Drexciya Research Lab has an analysis, if you need one.
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The Martian - Sex In Zero Gravity (Red Planet, 1993)
The Red Planet will appear only when your mind is open.
Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines. Wars got bigger and bigger and finally killed Earth. That’s what the silent radio means. That’s what we ran away from. We were lucky. There aren’t any more rockets left. It’s time you knew this isn’t a fishing trip at all…. Now I’m going to show you the Martians….
— William Thomas, The Million Year Picnic (Ray Bradbury, 1946)
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Mix: The Wizard (1986-89)
TDKs at the ready! Detroit Techno Militia has a selection of Jeff Mills’ radio mixes from 1986-89 when he was still The Wizard. Taped history.
(Photo credit: Sam Donnison and Takahiro Nakayama - Resident Advisor: Lost)
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Cybotron - Techno City (Fantasy, 1984)
Alleys of Your Mind, Cosmic Cars and Clear are all classics but Techno City is the one where it all comes together. It could easily soundtrack Blade Runner or Metropolis, the classic Fritz Lang silent film that gave Richard Davis the track’s underlying concept: “Techno City was divided into different sectors, the privileged sector in the clouds and the underground workers’ city.”
“The idea was that a person could be born and raised in Techno City, the workers’ city, but what he wanted to do was work his way to the cybodrome where artists and intellectuals reside. There would be no Moloch, but all sorts of diversions, games, electronic instruments. Techno City was the equivalent of the ghetto in Detroit, which is overlooked by the Renaissance Tower.”— Jon Savage on Cybotron: Techno City (Guardian, 2010)
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Kech & B. Bonds - Zephyr (True People: The Detroit Techno Album, React, 1996)
From the Motor City with love. Also available on the Floyd Cramer’s Revenge EP under the name Strand. The sound quality of the video doesn’t do the track justice.
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