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#underground-resistance
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The three godfathers played Hart Plaza together
Carl Craig went back to back with Moodymann on the Stargate stage on Saturday night of Movement 2025. Mike Banks was in the booth with them.
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.
Robert Hood and the minimal Detroit techno tradition
Robert Hood co-founded Underground Resistance with Jeff Mills and Mike Banks. He left in 1994 to start M-Plant and put out Minimal Nation, the record that named a subgenre.
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.
Jeff Mills: the second-by-second precision of a Detroit master
Jeff Mills has been DJing professionally since the early 1980s. The Detroit techno producer's catalog runs across more than three decades and roughly 60 releases on Axis Records, the label he founded in 1992.
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.
