Vladislav Delay @ The Wire

Berlin-based Finnish electronic artist Vladislav Delay (a.k.a. Sasu Ripatti a.k.a. Luomo a.k.a. Uusitalo) is featured on the cover story of February's issue of The Wire (#288), written by Philip Sherburne and titled "What makes today's Techno so different, so appealing?". The mag also features a stream of the track 'Lumi' from Vladislav Delay's latest album, Whistleblower.

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As a bonus, I noticed The Wire Web archive includes an unedited transcript of the interview of Mad Mike Banks, the enigmatic frontman of Detroit's Underground Resistance label. (UR had a cover feature in the magazine's November 2007 issue.)

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