Some Detroit Techno Videos

A Number of Names: 'Sharivari' @ The Scene (1982)


Drexciya: 'Hydro Theory' (with footage from Blue Planet BBC series)


Model 500: 'The Passage' (with footage from 2001: A Space Odyssey)

YouTube offers some 313 techno-related videos such as a version of 'Sharivari' (there are many different spellings for this track, such as 'Sharevari', 'Charivari', etc.) by A Number of Names, which is considered one of the first Detroit techno tracks, if not the very first; I was quite amazed to find this video, made for the dance music show The Scene. Then there are some bootleg videos for Drexciya and Model 500, using footage from BBC and Kubrick's 2001, respectively.

More Detroit techno/electro search results from YouTube (see also ghettotech):

Arpanet

Aztec Mystic (see also: DJ Rolando)

Juan Atkins (see also: Model 500 & Cybotron)

Aux 88

Blake Baxter

Black Replica

Carl Craig

Cybotron

Detroit Grand Pubahs

DJ Assault

DJ Godfather

DJ Rolando

Dopplereffekt

Drexciya

Eddie "Flashin'" Fowlkes

Robert Hood

Kenny Larkin

Derrick May

Jeff Mills

Model 500

Kevin Saunderson

Scan 7

Ultradyne

Underground Resistance

Claude Young

313ctr0: Detroit techno & electro @ pHinnWeb

Mad Mike Banks Interview

Mad Mike Banks, the mysterious head honcho of Detroit's Underground Resistance and one of the most outspoken personalities in the world of techno speaks in this February interview for the German electronic music magazine De:Bug:

http://www.de-bug.de/texte/4639.html

Drexciya: "Fear of a Wet Planet" by Kodwo Eshun

"Fear of a Wet Planet", a 1998 article by Kodwo Eshun about the legendary African-American "aquatic electro" act Drexciya has now been archived at The Wire magazine site.

Aux 88 to Finland!

AUX 88: The legends of Detroit Techno Bass @ FLASH meets FBI!

Friday 1 September 2006

AUX 88 (Detroit, USA) live
Lil'Tony (FBI resident)
Erkko (YleX, Niitty)
Messis

@ Kuudes linja
Hämeentie 13, Helsinki, Finland.
entrance from the
yardside (Kaikukatu 4)
2200–0400 hours
Age limit 20
Tickets 8e

I Need To Freak -- one of my biggest Detroit electro favourites coming to Finland! The musical collaboration of Tommy Hamilton and Keith Tucker started in the mid-1980s. They launched Aux 88 in 1993, releasing a series of legendary 12"s for Direct Beat label. Aux 88 has been gigging among all with Juan Atkins and Mad Mike of Underground Resistance. Recently Hamilton and Tucker returned together after having done solo projects (among all Auxmen) for some years. The new album, called Aux 88 was released in Japan this year. Their earlier album releases are Is It Man Or Machine? (1996) and Xeo-Genetic (1998).


Aux 88: 'Electro Techno'


Aux 88: 'Play It Loud'


Aux 88: Mini Video Fuse Festival in 2005

All Aux 88 search results @ YouTube

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You can listen to some Aux 88 tracks at their MySpace site

The official Aux 88 site
Aux 88 info @ Smack Dynamik
Aux 88 @ MP3.com
Aux 88 discography @ Discogs.com

Drexciya Research Lab

Through Wikipedia's Drexciya page I found this blog called Drexciya Research Lab giving in-depth analysis to all things Drexciya, Dopplereffekt and their various offshoot projects.

Drexciya was a widely acclaimed Detroit techno/electro/ambient act headed by James Stinson (who sadly passed away in 2002), with some classic releases for such labels as Underground Resistance, Rephlex and Clone. Stinson was assisted by Gerald Donald, familiar for his own Dopplereffekt act, whose minimal electro sound emulated Kraftwerk and early synthpop, with some controversial song lyrics varying from the joys of being a porno star to the sterilization of human race. Both Drexciya and Dopplereffekt were shrouded in mystery, with any photographs of group members being virtually non-existent (or at least extremely rare). There are such further Stinson/Donald acts in existence as Glass Domain, Japanese Telecom and Arpanet, keeping any collector perfectionists constantly on their toes.

Drexciya Research Lab also has a mother site of the same name, giving a namecheck to pHinnWeb at its links ("The classic and much read Phinnweb page" for Drexciya).

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Some related videos @ YouTube here and here.