#history
Everything filed under #history. Tags cluster stories across categories and rubrics.
Detroit house: where it diverged from Chicago
Chicago house and Detroit house are usually filed as the same lineage. They are not. The two cities share a starting decade and a roster of mutual influences, then diverge sharply around 1990 in ways that still define both scenes.
Metroplex Records: Juan Atkins's foundation
Juan Atkins founded Metroplex in 1985 out of his mother's house. The catalog is the foundation document for a genre.
From warehouse parties to Hart Plaza: how Movement got its venue
Detroit techno spent fifteen years homeless before it got Hart Plaza. The festival came out of the warehouse circuit, not the other way around.
From Detroit to Berlin: how the city's sound went global
Detroit techno was a UK and German phenomenon before it was a Detroit one. The Berlin half of that story runs through one club and one record label, both founded inside two years of the Wall coming down.
The Music Institute and the room where Detroit techno became a scene
The Music Institute opened on Broadway in late 1988 and closed in late 1989. Less than 18 months. Long enough.
How techno started in Detroit: the Belleville Three story
Three Black teenagers from a Detroit suburb — Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson — built the foundation of techno between 1981 and 1988. The story is shorter and stranger than the genre suggests.
