“Uncompromising” is the best adjective to describe Detroit techno and the people who laid the scene’s groundwork. If house is a feeling, techno is an idea, or perhaps a DIY ethos, made in Detroit ...

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Although widely associated with Europe, techno music was invented in Detroit and its suburbs in the early 1980s by young African-Americans armed with drum machines, futurist ideals and a predilection ...

When the doors opened to the Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) in Frankfurt’s Hauptwache square, last year, it seemed that club music was finally getting its due. MOMEM was billed as the world ...

The 90s was an incredible time for techno. The dance music culture continued its spread from Detroit across to Europe, becoming a transatlantic phenomenon, helping to fuel the rise of US rave culture, ...

In the interests of organization, this year I tracked new music in an ongoing iTunes playlist, but the attempt at housekeeping had one unexpectedly stressful consequence: I now have hard numbers to ...

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“Hardcore” was the first rave subgenre. An investigation of early-’90s rave culture would reveal its participants’ insistence on using the word “hardcore” to describe themselves and their music.