When you think of music from Detroit, what comes to mind? Motown, Berry Gordy, techno, The Belleville Three, most likely. From the mid-’90s to the early ’00s, another popular sound emerged – ghettotech. It was, as one artist and longtime resident put it, “the indigenous music of Detroit.” Parties, radio mix shows, strip clubs, jit dancing, record stores and a TV show nurtured a complex musical eco

At the tail end of 1989, those lucky enough to be on the KLF Communications mailing list received a package containing a pair of records that were, by the standards of the time, hugely radical. The accompanying info sheet spelled this out in no uncertain terms. DJs were warned that the first record, which contained new remixes of the previously unissued “Last Train To Trancentral,” may be: “totall

Between 1983 and 1990, you couldn’t go to a roller rink, Sweet 16 or nightclub without hearing the addictive strains of freestyle. Sometimes called Latin hip hop or Heartthrob, its Roland bass, effervescent minor-key synth melodies, and Latin-influenced percussion infected urban teenagers from New York to Miami to Chicago to L.A. Its lyrics were the perfect soundtrack to tormented high school roma

The Genius of Graphic Designer Barney Bubbles When we think of British graphic design and music packaging, some names spring immediately to mind: Peter Saville, Malcolm Garrett, Hipgnosis. Yet, until recently, the work of Barney Bubbles, a great and noted influence on the work of Saville and Garrett has been ignored. Barney Bubbles defined the look of the British psychedelic movement of the ’60s,

How an unassuming club became Japan’s most influential venue, as well as a beloved home-away-from-home for countless international DJs. Just a few blocks away from one of Tokyo’s largest nightlife districts, Roppongi, there’s a much quieter crossing called Nishiazabu intersection. If you walk onto a small side street from there, a blank yellow sign glows in the dark outside a building. This is the

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