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"The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It’s like George Clinton and Kraftwerk stuck in an elevator"

Derrick May, techno pioneer, quoted in 1988

Slideshow photo: Movement 2010. Credit

• "Detroit's Movement festival has been rescheduled due to coronavirus concerns" by Jerilyn Jordan 
  From "Detroit Metro Times": "It's official, folks. Detroit's Techno Christmas has been postponed and will now take place closer to actual Christmas."
• "Something in the Water: How Detroit's Techno Family Threw an Emotional Dance Party for Flint" By Jesse Weiss 
  From "Noisey": Moodymann, Kevin Saunderson and many others came together to raise funds for Flint's water crisis.

High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music

Featuring in-depth interviews with many of the world's best exponents of the artform, "High Tech Soul" focuses on the creators of the genre — Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson — and looks at the relationships and personal struggles behind the music. 

Detroit Techno & The Electronic Music Festival: Retrospective

Presented by DetroitTechno.org // Part 1 of 3 explores how the electronic music festival was born in Detroit in 2000. From the death of the underground to Motor Lounge, this short documentary touches on some of the significant milestones that led to the festival's birth.

Techno City: What is Detroit Techno?

A short documentary filmed on location in Detroit and featuring personal interviews and commentary from some of the seminal figures in the story of Techno. Including coverage of the inaugural Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2000.

• The 10 best early Detroit techno tracks, according to Kevin Saunderson
  Kevin Saunderson is one of the pioneers of Detroit techno – alongside Derrick May and Juan Atkins, he was a member of the group of artists often referred to as the “Belleville Three” who helped originate the city’s sound. 
• 10 Classic Techno Records For People Who Don't Know Shit About Techno 
  "Uncompromising" is the best adjective to describe Detroit techno and the people who laid the scene’s groundwork. 
• Electronic Music 101: What is Detroit Techno?
  Just as early House music was happening in Chicago and New York, there was another sound bubbling up in Detroit that was entirely different. The sound of Detroit was more futuristic and cold; it was the sound of a city in decay and drifting in outer space.

• "Detroit is Techno City, and techno is Black" by Imani Mixon
  On Memorial Day weekend, a persistent thud spreads over downtown Detroit from Saturday afternoon to Monday morning, originating from the center of Hart Plaza and continuing to the after-parties that boom from different corners of the city.
• Put your hands up: An oral history of Detroit's electronic music festival
  Detroit Electronic Music Festival, Focus Detroit Electronic Music Festival, Movement, Fuse-In, Movement. The festival that has occurred on Memorial Day weekend in Detroit at Hart Plaza centered around electronic music since 2000 has had many names. The story behind those names is just as complex as you might expect. 
• "From the Autobahn to I-94" by Heiko Hoffmann 
  Twenty years ago, two groups of young, mostly black Midwesterners-- influenced in parts by disco, Philly Soul, and European synth-pop-- simultaneously created the two major movements in modern dance music, house and techno.
• "A Tale of Two Cities: Our 1998 Feature on the Racial Politics of Detroit Techno" by Mike Rubin 
  Techno Pioneer Juan Atkins and his disciples once ruled Detroit, then split for greener pastures. In their wake came 'burban ravers and X-rated booty.
• Detroit to Berlin: How Techno Revolutionised the Dancefloor
  Along the last few decades Berlin has appropriated techno music to the point that today you can’t mention one without spitting out the other. But despite post-industrial qualities from the hometown of Berghain and currywurst, the music genre’s origins can be found all the way across the Atlantic.

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