Blogs: The Subterraneans

Timeline Live at Music Hall / “2010 A Detroit Odyssey” from Carleton Gholz on Vimeo.
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The bad news: Ricardo Villalobos’ scheduled performance this weekend at the Movement Electronic Music Festival has been canceled. The good news: Richie Hawtin will perform in his place on the BeatPort Stage Sunday, May 30, 9 p.m. until midnight. Villalobos did not receive his work visa back in time due to unexpected bureaucratic obstacles,...
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Trippy, minimal techno-house crossover star Ricardo Villalobos is coming back to Detroit for the first time since 2002. The Chilean-German producer/DJ has been confirmed to perform at the Movement Electronic Music Festival ending weeks of rumors of his appearance, a major coup for Ferndale-based promoters Paxahau. Villalobos was among a handful of artists who...
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The countdown officially begins now for Movement 2010, Detroit’s biggest electronic music party held each Memorial Day weekend. Let’s see, it’s 79 days (if our calculations are correct) until the first beats roll out at downtown’s Hart Plaza, where the festival has been held since 2000. Even bigger news: the headliners for the Main...
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Without spoiling too much of the current thrill-a-minute Subterraneans column, which puts to rest a bloodstained year in a fractious imperial democracy and looks ahead to even stranger days ahead, I thought I’d jot down some essential tunes to take with you to the island of your choosing, when you need to get away...
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In the mid-1990s, a band of Berlin outsiders, centered around the record store Hard Wax and studio Dubplates & Mastering, began reducing sonic pressure to pure grayscale essence. The labels Basic Channel, Chain Reaction, Main Street, Burial Mix and Rhythm & Sound tossed Detroit techno, Chicago house and roots dub beats in a compression...
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Ann Arbor-based Ghostly International has just released an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Called Ghostly Discovery, the application works as a mood-reading jukebox containing Ghostly’s and sister label’s Spectral Sound’s catalogs, allowing users to create space-age playlists for what they want to listen to based on their emo(tional) state and digital (or)...
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The numbers keep going up for Paxahau and its three days of electronic love on the Detroit riverfront. In a press statement released this week, the Ferndale-based promotions group said that 83,322 people visited Hart Plaza during the three-day Memorial Day Weekend for Movement, the annual electronic music festival that featured nearly 100 performances...
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I wish I knew her real name. I don’t want to call her Grandma Techno. Surreal speakers in the sky. Flying Lotus tearing it up. Cybergoth kids raving by the Noguchi Fountain. Mr. Nice Guy playing Alice Cooper songs on Roland Micro Cubes.
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Clark Warner Kero Flying Lotus Lee Curtiss Carl Craig
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