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April 20, 2025
Inside the North End record shop keeping Detroit techno's vinyl archive alive
Somewhere in Detroit, the retail counter inside the Submerge building, has run on appointments and word of mouth for two decades. The crates are the city's vinyl spine.
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October 5, 2024
Submerge: Underground Resistance's headquarters and Detroit's techno archive
Mike Banks established Submerge in 1992 as a distribution hub for Detroit's independent dance labels. The building at 3000 East Grand Boulevard now holds the closest thing the city has to a living techno archive.
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August 25, 2024
Detroit's record store map: Submerge, People's, Hello, and what's left
Detroit lost most of its record stores in the 2000s. The handful that survived run the city's vinyl economy and the techno-pilgrimage circuit at the same time.
