Interdimensional Transmissions ran No Way Back 2025 on Sunday night at Tangent Gallery. The event marked I.T.'s 30th anniversary and was billed as a 14-hour Techno Thanksgiving. That turned out to be a conservative estimate.
No Way Back is the annual Memorial Day weekend overnight that BMG and Erika have been running for most of the last two decades. The format does not change. One room, one sound system, a rotating cast of DJs, and a no-phones culture that has been in place long enough to actually function. The 2025 edition added the Transcendence Orchestra for a Detroit live debut in the Outer Space Room. Anthony Child and Daniel Bean brought material from their modular-heavy catalog that fit the room's low-ceiling, warehouse-adjacent acoustics.
Scott Zacharias closed the main room. His set started before dawn and ended closer to noon. RA released the recording as a Mix of the Day later in October. In a short note accompanying the mix, Zacharias mentioned that he and his partner had learned they were pregnant earlier in the weekend. The set has the emotional register of a person processing something significant in public in real time.
The anniversary framing turned the night into something larger than a standard afterparty. I.T. has been running events in Detroit since before most of the city's current venues existed. Thirty years in, they are still booking the same room, running the same format, and getting the same result.
Interdimensional Transmissions' next event is on ra.co/promoters/1283.
