Blake Baxter has long been one of the greats of Detroit Techno. While at Movement 2007, we managed to catch him and talk a little about analog vs. digital production.
In our third installment with Germany's Hardfloor, we get into a deeper conversation about production and distribution. Oliver and Ramon talk in depth about translating their analog sounds to digital media.
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Offsite Link: Hardfloor's website can be accessed here.
Detroit's Own DJ Surgeon talks about vinyl exhibitions and where he feels Serato fits in with his sets. For travel and ease of music storage, Serato seems the obvious choice. With advent of the technology, though,...
Within electronic music, few cities know more about being self-sufficient than Detroit. Unlike many electronic scenes, where labels abound completely unlinked to each other, Detroit has gathered many of its techno,...
Offsite Link: Scan 7 are part of the Cratesavers Muzik Family.
Robert Rich talks to us in this third installment of our Movement 2007 interview. He talks about his philosophy on music distribution and where he sees it going. Much of his music is still available on CD, but you...
Scan 7 has long been a prominent name in the canon of techno music, and solid interviews with the elusive production crew are hard to come. While at Movement 2007, however, we managed to catch up with Trackmasta Lou...
Offsite Link: Scan 7 has been producing records since the late-eighties.
Detroit's Own DJ Surgeon has been spinning wax for a long time (since he was 15). When we met up with him in Detroit, we really wanted to know if he was still packing a crate or not. Like most of the artists of cratesavers,...
Fabrice Lig (aka Soul Designer) and Spirit Catcher have been releasing music for a while now. Stopping by Buzz Bar around 1am, I managed to grab them by 3:00am for a quick interview while we all sobered up*.
Blake Baxter, the "Prince of Techno" continues his talk with us on the digital vs. analog debate. Analog is still considered by many to have better low end than any digital product. Blake talks about vinyl, 303's,...
Offsite Link: Blake Baxter is currently collaborating with Abe Duque. Check out the website at http://www.abeduquerecords.com
Hardfloor sit down for the first installment of our interview with them and talk shop. Oliver and Ramon go through the nuts and bolts of how they create their sounds and then import them into their Mac G5.
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Offsite Link: Hardfloor have been devastating dancefloors with their brand of Acid since the early nineties.
In part two of our interview with Robert Rich, we delve deeper into his live setup. Robert discusses the pros and cons of new technology and how he incorporates both. In the clips shown, he is operating both a mac...
Offsite Link: Robert Rich has been producing ambient and other forms of music since the 1970's.
Fabrice Lig (aka Soul Designer) and Spirit Catcher have a large catalog of releases on a variety of labels. While in Detroit, we wanted to talk to them about their different approaches to DJing and production.
Kate Simko originally studied classical piano and photography at the University of Miami. Moving to Chicago shortly thereafter, she switched gears and went into the music technology program at Northwestern.
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Offsite Link: Kate Simko is a producer, DJ, pianist, and photographer from Chicago, Illinois. Her info can be found at www.katesimko.com
Mr.De has been making music and DJing for twenty years, and managing labels for over ten. As founder of Submerge Recordings, the indepedent distributor for most of Detroit's electronic labels, he has seen trends in...
Offsite Link: Mr. De is the founder of Submerge Recordings, a company that distributes the bulk of Detroit Electronic Music Recordings.
Nicknamed "The Prince of Techno", and solidified with that identity via his release of the same name on UR records, Blake Baxter has been pushing the sonic boundaries of electronic music since the mid-eighties.
Stefan Betke has maintained the alias Pole since the mid to late nineties. His first three albums, a trilogy of self-titled albums, helped push the boundaries of how stripped-down ambient dub could get.
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Offsite Link: Pole has been making electronic music for over a decade. You can visit his official website at www.scape-music.de.
Hardfloor have long been masters of the TB-303. Oliver Bondzio and Ramon Zenker have been collaborating together on electronic music projects since the early nineties. They initially found success as composers of electronic...
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Bill Holland (aka Mr. Automatic) and Joe Vortech travel to the birthplace of Techno for Movement 2007: Detroit's Electronic Music Festival. The festival was originally begun by Carl Craig in 2000 as a world venue for...
Offsite Link: Movement 2007 is produced by Paxahau an event production group located in Detroit.
Robert Rich has been experimenting with custom electronics ever since he was lured away by the legendary Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. While there, he performed "sleep concerts" of ambient...
