Two years after it was filmed, The Pleasure of Sound is now available to stream worldwide. The brief documentary features a meeting between accomplished electronic artist and Ghostly co-founder Matthew Dear and Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad. The film, a collaborative effort made possible by local public radio station WDET, Mikel Ellcessor, and Ghostly International,…
What started off as a small grassroots gathering of hometown heroes has now blossomed into one of the world’s most respected electronic music festivals. Every year on Memorial Day weekend, Hart Plaza turns into the capital of techno as people hail from far and wide to make a pilgrimage to the city where it all began. This year’s…
KMS, the record label started by Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson in 1987, has been reissuing seminal works on vinyl over the past several years. These include Saunderson’s Just Want Another Chance (made famous by its signature “Reese” bassline), as well as releases by MK, Chez N Trent, and Kreem (the duo of Saunderson…
Iconic ambient techno duo The Orb have revealed the details of their upcoming album, the first for Cologne-based label Kompakt since 2005’s Okie Dokie It’s the Orb on Kompakt, and it is set to feature a tribute to Detroit’s J Dilla. As usual, Moonbuilding 2703 AD will also see Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann…
Indie electro-rock duo Nigel & The Dropout are quickly establishing themselves as one of Detroit’s hardest working acts, playing a bevy of local shows while still finding the time to record four albums in almost as many years. Now Nigel Hemmye and Andrew Ficker are fresh out of the studio with their fifth full-length,…
Jeff Mills has, in recent months, announced a film project for The Louvre and a live album released in collaboration with pianist Mikhaïl Rudy, but this week the seminal Detroit techno artist topped those stories. Mills took to social media to share that he is preparing a multimedia experience inspired by the iconic Stanley…
Detroit techno icon Jeff Mills is no stranger to scoring films. Back in 2000, The Wizard shared his re-imagining of Fritz Lang’s classic Metropolis, and earlier this year he contributed a score for the director’s The Woman in the Moon. For his latest endeavor, Mills tackled Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 film L’enfer (Inferno)…
The last time Detroit-native electronic artist Jimmy Edgar and Berlin-based producer Machinedrum teamed up as JETS was in 2012, and now they’re back for round two. Their four-track EP The Chants is due out May 11 on the duo’s own Ultramajic label. The pair explain the process behind the new album in press…
Motor City electronic artist Terrence Dixon has thrown his support behind a crowdfunding effort aiming to launch Minimal Detroit Lounge, a new club that hopes to launch in May with Juan Atkins confirmed as resident DJ. The venue, which takes its name from a series of Detroit-focused house and techno groups Dixon formed on…
Detroit techno legend Carl Craig and Chicago house heavyweight Green Velvet have teamed up for a collaborative album, Unity. The seven-track album was released through Beatport by Relief Records earlier this week with little fanfare. Twitter and Facebook posts from Craig, Green Velvet, and Relief Records were the only indication that the new work…