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Profile
July 22, 2025
Sterling Toles and the hybrid Detroit hip-hop / electronic vein
Sterling Toles has been making music in Detroit for more than two decades. Most of it sits where the city's hip-hop, jazz, and electronic traditions overlap, and most of it has been heard outside the city before it gets a Detroit listen.
Spotlight
June 25, 2025
From J Dilla to HiTech: Detroit hip-hop and electronic still share the same room
James Yancey died in February 2006. Nineteen years later the Detroit hip-hop catalog he helped build is still in conversation with the city's electronic scene, and the conversation is structural, not coincidental.
