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Lauren Flax I Don't Want To Hurt You

Lauren Flax has unveiled the second single taken from her new EP, 'I Don't Want To Hurt You'. You can listen to the track below. ...

Photo of DJ Minx sitting on a brown leather sofa wearing a black dress and boots

DJ Minx has shared a brand new single, ‘D-Town’, on her own Women On Wax label. Check it out below.


Out today (11th August), the...

Roisin Murphy What Not To Do Moodymann Remix

Róisín Murphy has shared a new remix of 'What Not To Do' by Detroit luminary Moodymann. You can hear the track below. 


The remix is...

Cover image for ‘The History Of The World's Greatest Nightclubs’

A new podcast series looking at key nightclubs around the world and the ways they have influenced the ways that people party has landed.


The...

Black and white photo of a queue of people outside Tresor, Berlin

A new short film documenting the origins of techno in Detroit and its boom in Berlin has been released.


How Techno Was Born: From Detroit...

Detroit's Underground Music Academy unveils studio space with 2k Foundations

Detroit's Underground Music Academy has teamed up with charity 2k Foundations to launch a new educational studio space in Detroit.


Located at 2990 East Grand...

Photo of DJ Bone standing on a tall roof overlooking Amsterdam train station in a green jacket

DJ Bone has announced the final album to be released on his Subject Detroit label, titled 'FURTHER'. Check out the LP's first single, 'The Will...

Press shot of Octave One

Over three decades after bursting onto the scene with tracks like ‘I Believe’ and ‘Falling In Dub’, Detroit second-wavers Lawrence and Lenny Burden are back with a new LP, the contemplative ‘Never On Sunday’. As they prepare to play this month’s Movement festival, DJ Mag catches up with the brothers to talk about the album, their creative process, and just how they became so adept at packing their live gear

Lawrence and Lenny Burden, together known as Octave One, have Detroit techno running through their veins. Since the release of their debut single, 1990's 'I...

DJ Minx poses next to a red-painted garage door

DJ Minx has released a new two-track EP, ‘The Throne’ – stream it below.


The DJ and producer, who is a key figure of the...

Acid detroit

A new book explores Detroit's musical and social history from the 1960s onwards.


Written by Joe Molloy, Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City...

DJ Bone in a long army camo jacket standing in a concrete doorway

From underground Detroit hero to flourishing international headliner, DJ Bone has worked hard to get where he is today. He meets Joe Roberts in Amsterdam to talk about his innovative FURTHER party series, his homelessness charity, repping the Motor City overseas and keeping the funk in techno

“They always say the first wave of Detroit, the second wave, the third,” says DJ Bone, aka 52-year-old Eric Dulan, as we sit chatting about...

DJ Minx to DJ at the Detroit Pistons' final home basketball game of the season

DJ Minx is set to DJ at basketball team Detroit Pistons' final home game of the season.


Taking place on 5th April, when the Pistons...

Octave One announces first new album in five years, ‘Never On Sunday’

Octave One have announced their first new album in five years, ‘Never On Sunday’.


Formed in Detroit back in 1989, the techno duo, comprising siblings...

Lee Purkis death 54

UK techno pioneer Lee Purkis has died, aged 54. A stream of tributes have poured in following the news. No cause of death has been...

Cover art of Drexciya's 'The Quest'

Released in 1997, Drexciya's double-vinyl compilation 'The Quest' marked the duo's breakthrough onto a larger public stage, as well as their first, temporary, retirement. With liner notes that sharpened their Afrofuturist mythology into focus , it is also the record that cemented many fans' sonic liaison with the Detroit duo, following a series of 12" releases that perfected their musical ideas. Here, Ben Cardew reflects on a record that most perfectly encapsulates the style, grace, and range of James Stinson and Gerald Donald's project

Detroit duo Drexciya were electronic music’s ultimate world builders and myth makers, a production unit whose exquisite musical control was tied to a profoundly moving...

Waajeed

Coming up in Detroit, Waajeed’s never been afraid to take the necessary steps in order to evolve and thrive as an artist. It’s been a career defined by constant change, pushing against expectations, and seemingly having no fear of what’s next. Bruce Tantum catches up with the veteran Motor City DJ and producer to find out more about his search for musical perfection, the Underground Music Academy, and finding peace in chaos

For Waajeed, it began with a high school talent contest. “I was in ninth or tenth grade, and I was really hellbent on winning,” the...

Waajeed releases new album, ‘Memoirs of Hi​-​Tech Jazz’, on Tresor Records: Listen

Waajeed has dropped a new album, ‘Memoirs of Hi​-​Tech Jazz’, on Tresor Records. Stream it below.


The Detroit-born-and-raised producer and musician released the 22-track album...

Babyface Ray Mob album release

Detroit rapper Babyface Ray has announced a new album, 'Mob', which will drop on 2nd December via Wavy Gang/Empire. You can watch a tailer below. ...

BRAYLEN DION & EMILY WANG

Detroit-born, Atlanta-based Ash Lauryn is a digger in the truest sense, repping a soulful, classic house sound in her sets and helping preserve and bring back to the fore the Black roots of electronic music through her Underground & Black project. She speaks to Ria Hylton about discovering her passion and making the most of opportunities

On 1st July, Ash Lauryn performed an all-night-long set at East London’s NT’s Loft. Her mix, dripping in the soulful, cavernous grooves of an old-skool...

John Beltran Placid Angles

John Beltran has announced a new Placid Angles EP, '056 (The Lotus)', which will arrive via Nic Tasker's AD 93 label on 22nd July.  ...