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MetroTimes Detroit Music Awards

Afflatus Community

Small Stone This site is mostly interested in advertising, but I include it here as an example of a grass roots project trying to implement a vision, which you can read about here.

Detroitmusic.com isn't as rich a site as one might hope, but it does offer an on line jukebox

I think CityClub's page is interesting as an example of "underground" culture. On the one hand, there are no signs designating the location of CityClub--only insiders can find it. On the other hand, you can get directions on the web. Is there a contradiction here? For a similar reason, check out Acension UK, which looks like a boarded up Chinese restaurant, unless your "in the know."

Interview with DAM's Cary Loren see also Carey Loren's "Manifesto of Ignorance"

MP3.com's Detroit section

Techno

Hyperreal has a brief description. It also has library page which contains a Village Voice article and an essay by Morgan Lang

For another fairly sophisticated treatment of Detroit techno, see John Paul Molenda's "Techno's Role in the Capitalist World-System"

This alt.rav FAQ includes a taxonomy of the various types of techno and how Detroit fits into the grand scheme.

Cognition is an interesting site with archives of Andrew Duke's "In the Mix." Check out the interview with Detroit's Terrance Parker.

MetroTimes article on Underground Resistance

Tribute to Ken Collier

Detroit Techno Art

Submerege's Somewhere In Detroit store and Area 1 Good Pictures & brief but important commentary on Detroit "progress."

"Planet E Celebrates..." (Michigan Daily)

The 313 Detroit Techno email list has archives here.

Compare these discussions of Detroit with something like this Detroit News article called "How Do You Define Detroit"

313 has descriptions of various Detroit record labels, including reviews of specific albums:

Underground Resistance: "No Hope, No Dreams, No Love, My Only Escape Is Underground"

Techno is often conceived of as a means of resistance. See for instance the brief discussions at D.PART (Detroit . Pursuit and Resistance Technologies) especially here and here.

s6313 I found this site interesting and professional web magazine. A little audio intense, but with interesting interviews and articles. Specific inquiries into the Detroit techno community. Don't miss the brief but provocative "mission statement."

Reverb is also a rich site. I was particluarly interested in the article on the cement space gallery.

Description of Beverly May's Future Jazz: The American Roots of Techno & House, a book about the origins of Techno in Detroit and Chicago.

Detroit Electroinc Coalition

Detroit Peoplemover.com

Dan's House of DNA

In-Site Magazine

Underground Resistance

Alan Oldham profiled in XLR8R

Stacey Pullen & Eddie Fowlkes in Dissonance Magazine

MetroTimes Sonic Metropolis

Transmat Timespace Tour

John Beltran

313ctr0

Jeff Mills mix

ele-mental

pitch'd

Cybotron

7th City

Detroit 2000

streetsound

Sevenmag Interviews

Pointblank's Carl Craig page

Dan Sicko's Techno Rebels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz

The Graystone Museum--an excellent site!

Detroit Jazz

Free Press Article on Harold McKinney

Free Press Article on Calvin Brooks

Johnnie Bassett & the Blues Insurgents

Althea Rene

Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival

Go to AKADetroit's Attic page and try a sample of Detroit jazz.

Blues

Detroit Blues Society

Grant Green, Jr.

Motown

Hitsville U.S.A.--The Motown Historical Museum

"Our Motown Recording Heritage"--a series of articles by Robert Dennis

(Part 1)

(Part 2)

(Part 3)

(Part 4)

(Part 5)

(Part 6)

(Part 7)

"The Motown Story"

Introduction & Discography

Complete Article by David Edwards

Ska

Detroit Ska

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