As well as being one of the foremost production duos emerging from Detroit in the 1990s, electro outfit Drexciya also became renowned for their thematic releases, starting with 1995’s Aquatic

Under his persona of The Wizard, Jeff Mills was more than just a sorcerer’s apprentice, as this video from 1983 illustrates. This footage was shot at Cheeks Nightclub on Detroit’s

Given that this week marked techno legend Carl Craig’s 49th birthday – happy belated tidings Carl! – this week’s Throwback Thursday highlights one of the jewels in the maestro’s back

Today, 6 April, marks Derrick May‘s 55th birthday, and it’s a sign of an unyielding devotion to quality techno that May, one third of the famed ‘Belleville Three’, is still

A funny thought came to me last night, what if Donald Trump’s election platform had been founded on protecting American techno? The much-mooted ‘Wall’ would likely be a Funktion One

Hell hath no fury like Mad Mike scorned, as this article from MUZIK magazine in August 1996 demonstrates. The Underground Resistance head honcho sent a fax (remember them?) to the

WIRED magazine has long had its finger on the electronic pulse of modern society, and one year on from its formation, the Condé Nast-owned publication headed to Detroit to discover

What happens when Kraftwerk’s ‘Numbers’ comes on in the club? You get in line and wait your turn to bust a move of course… This has been doing the rounds

Having developed his Axis label (as well as providing a boost to the emerging Tresor sound in Germany) in the early 90s, and conscious of the emerging tribal techno sound,

Detroit’s finest Derrick May has a history of combining a myriad of styles, from disco to house to mind-numbing techno, over the course of a two hour set, and this