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Detroit techno is a type of techno music that generally includes the first techno productions by Detroit-based artists during the 1980s and early 1990s. Prominent Detroit techno artists include Juan Atkins , Eddie Fowlkes , Derrick May , Jeff Mills , Kevin Saunderson , Blake Baxter , Drexciya , Mike Banks , James Pennington and Robert Hood .
DJs would mix multiple genres including jungle, ghetto house, hip hop, R&B, electro and Detroit techno. [4] [3] The music of 2 Live Crew is also cited as influential to the genre. [4] A Detroit ghettotech style of dancing is called the jit. This dance style relies heavily on fast footwork combinations, drops, spins and improvisations.
The New Dance Show is a television series in Detroit, Michigan, which ran on WGPR-TV 62 (now a CBS affiliate known as WWJ-TV) and W68CH 68 (now WHPS-CD 15). Hosted by R.J. Watkins, The New Dance Show was a local version of Soul Train and featured regular dancers, including a man who dressed like a Gypsy and who wore a cape, and a woman who dressed as a boxer.
The New Dance Sound of Detroit is a 1988 compilation of early Detroit techno tracks released on the Virgin Records UK imprint 10 Records. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The compilation's title helped establish the term " techno " as the name for electronic dance music emerging out of Detroit in the 1980s.
The success of house and acid house paved the way for wider acceptance of the Detroit sound, and vice versa: techno was initially supported by a handful of house music clubs in Chicago, New York, and Northern England, with London clubs catching up later; [61] but in 1987, it was "Strings of Life" which eased London club-goers into acceptance of ...
The revered house and techno festival returned to Detroit this past weekend, featuring genre legends and launching countless Shazams. Movement 2022 Reminded Us That Techno Is Detroit: The Festival ...
In 1988, dance music entrepreneur Neil Rushton approached the Belleville Three to license their work for release in the UK. To define the Detroit sound as being distinct from Chicago house, Rushton and the Belleville Three chose the word "techno" for their tracks, a term that Atkins had been using since his Cybotron days ("Techno City" was an early single). [10]
The single helped kickstart the Detroit techno music scene. A year later he followed it with the release of "Strings of Life," which was named by Frankie Knuckles. [7] It "hit Britain in an especially big way during the country's 1987-1988 house explosion." [8] "Strings of Life" is based on a piano sequence by May's friend Michael James.