Original Six Electro-clash: Detroit

The best BBQ in the D is actually in Canada.  But make no mistake: Detroit is to electronic music what Wittenberg is to the Reformation. I am still lacking the ability to rip LPs, so whatever Detroit stuff the Electrifying Mojo turned my cousin on to,  and thus me, will have to wait. The Egyptian Lover will have to wait too. The Red Wings, however, have long flourished thanks to foreign players, and the D is a mecca of robots and outsourcing. Hockeytown heroes Meg and Jack White took a page from GM and Ford, and arranged for automaton  maquiladores to cover their songs for a cover album  called "Electrostripes: An Electro Tribute to the White Stripes." I know very little about any of these bands, though like many electro compilations, the acts seems to be slightly different iterations of  a single producer. As a whole though, the concept works pretty well, and the record is probably worth owning  for the dismay it will cause your sincere guitar friends.

Satin & Circuits: "Hotel_Yorba" Electrostripes: An Electro Tribute to the White Stripes, Big Eye, 2003

Happy Birthday, OGIC!

Comments

[lee]

given carl craig, the detroit electronic music fesitival, richie hawtin/plastikman, etc., don't you think it's interesting that detroit's most famous son these days anyway should claim in one of his songs 'nobody listens to techno'? techno can mean many things, of course, but it overlaps with electronica, i think. and detroit is a place where people do listen to it.

[ogic]

Ooh, I can see the pictures! Worth the wait!