The Detroit-Berlin Techno Axis
Tracing techno's path from Kraftwerk's Düsseldorf studio to Detroit and on to a reunified Berlin, where it met Jamaican dub.
- 11968-1975 · West Germany (Düsseldorf, Cologne, Berlin)
German Krautrock
In the early 1970s a generation of West German musicians set out to make music that owed nothing to their parents' Germany or to imitations of American pop. Can recorded in Schloss Nörvenich, a castle outside Cologne, while Kraftwerk built their own Kling Klang studio in Düsseldorf.
Read the issue - 21981-1995 · Detroit/Belleville, Michigan, USA
Detroit Techno
Juan Atkins first heard Kraftwerk on The Electrifying Mojo's Detroit radio show in the late 1970s. With Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, his friends from Belleville High School, he combined Kraftwerk's machine precision with the funk of Parliament-Funkadelic, and the result became techno.
Read the issue - 31988-2005 · Berlin, Germany
Berlin Techno
After the Wall fell, Dimitri Hegemann opened Tresor in 1991 in the vaults of the old Wertheim department store, and his label's first release came from Underground Resistance as X-101. Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, and Juan Atkins followed, and Detroit's sound became the foundation of Berlin techno.
Read the issue (members) - 41968-1980 · Kingston, Jamaica
70s Dub Reggae
In 1993 Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus began releasing records as Basic Channel from Ernestus's Hard Wax shop, setting dub's echo, space, and bass weight inside a 4/4 techno pulse. Their later Rhythm & Sound project worked with Jamaican singers, which leads back to the Kingston studios where those techniques began.
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