Techno Last Night a DJ saved My life.

Techno Last Night a DJ saved My life.Chapter 13 by Emma o, Madge, Amy & Steph

The SoundThe race which first learns to balance equally the intellectual and the emotional to use the machines and couple them with a life of true intuition and feeling such as the Easterners know will produce the supermen. Paul Robeson, 1935

There are millions of people in Detroit. Id say about thirty of them have heard of techno. Marc Kinchen 1990

Definition of TechnoAny of various styles of dance music characterized by electronic sounds and a high-energy, rhythmic beat.

(Music / Pop Music) a type of very fast dance music, using electronic sounds and fast heavy beats

THE BELVILLE THREEThree main key figures wereDerrick MayKevin SaundersonJuan Atkins (older brother to a friend of the other boys)

Met together at school, where their race was a main contributor to sealing their friendship amongst playing football in an upper middle class environment. Black men could detach themselves from the traditional ghetto, through European pop.Here the High School music scene was taking off, and was a place for the teens to make money fast to fund a fashionable lifestyle of designer clothes in a struggling and violent town. This was to be their first taste of the music industry and gave them an idea of how to run an eventsomething of which they would use later on.Juan AtkinsSon of a concert promoter Met a shell shocked Vietnam veteran who had lots of sound equipment who had already made an album (played by mojo). The two went on to form a band called cybotron.10,000 copies were sold in Chicago and Detroit, and aired frequently by electrifying mojo (DJ Charles Johnson)

Kevin Saunderson Derrick started to make music with JuanKevin was still focused on his sportsEventually they all started to set up a studio and make records togetherThey then began to DJ at upper class high school parties.Kevin then went on to join a crew Deep Space in 1984 as Master Reece (after Maurice his middle name) He was still struggling to mix after the failure of his sport career so took a trip to Ohio to learn where he really got a feel for it.Derrick MayDerrick may managed to swing himself a prestigious radio gig when he convinced WJLB to let them put together a Detroit version of Chicagos Hot Mix 5 show called Street Beat.The three performed joined by Mike Grant who later became a House DJ.

Metroplex was then formed with the three coming together to work after the end of Cyborton. NO UFOS TRACKThe music is much like Detroit, a complete mistake, its like George Clinton and Kraftwerk stuck in an elevator.

This type of intellectualising music made it easier to sell, for example Strings of Life. Is said to be about Martyn Luther KingThe Bellville three

Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson & Juan Atkins According to youtubeThe initial blueprint for techno developed during the mid-1980s inBelleville, Michigan, a suburb ofDetroitbyJuan Atkins,Kevin Saunderson,Derrick May(the so-called Belleville Three), andEddie Fowlkes, all of whom attended school together atBelleville High. By the close of the 1980s, the four had recorded and released material under various guises: Atkins asModel 500, Flintstones, and Magic Juan; Fowlkes simply asEddie "Flashin" Fowlkes; Saunderson as Reese, Keynotes, and Kaos; with May as Mayday, R-Tyme, andRhythim Is Rhythim. There were also a number of joint ventures, the most commercially successful of whichwas "Big Fun," the first single by Saunderson's groupInner City; it was produced by Saunderson, mixed by Atkins, re-edited by Saunderson & May, and co-written by Saunderson with vocalistParis Grey, and fellow DJsJames Penningtonand Arthur Forest.The Electrifiyin MojoThe Electrifying Mojo(b. Charles Johnson inLittle Rock, Arkansas) is anAmericanradio personality. He was adisc jockeybased inDetroit, Michiganwhose on-air journey of musical and social development shaped a generation of music-lovers in Detroit and throughout southeasternMichiganandCanadaand was of importance to the development ofDetroit Techno.He is recognized for having introduced or "broken" many artists into the Detroit radio market, includingPrince,The B-52's, andKraftwerk, and was occasionally thanked on-air by the artists for his support of their work. Prince granted Mojo a telephone interviewfollowing a sold out birthday concert atCobo Arenaon June 7, 1986, during an era when Prince rarely if ever granted interviews. He was visited in the studio byThe B-52'sandThe J. Geils Bandwith the latter thanking him for playing "Flamethrower" from their albumFreeze Frame.Most recently, Mojo is serving as Program Director for a handful of Detroit radio stations - he does not publicize which ones - and he is in negotiations to bring his show to XMsatellite radioin 2006, where he will not only begin a new show, but also air shows from his archive dating back to 1977

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Kraftwerk an influence to the Bellville threeKraftwerk(German pronunciation:[kaftvk], meaningpower plantorpower station) is an influentialelectronic musicband fromDsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed byRalf HtterandFlorian Schneiderin 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly following a WesternClassicalstyle of harmony, with a minimalistic and strictly electronic instrumentation. The group's simplified lyrics are at times sung through avocoderor generated bycomputer-speech software. Kraftwerk were one of the first groups to popularize electronic music and are consideredpioneersin the field. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kraftwerk's distinctive sound was revolutionary, and has had a lasting effect across many genres of modern music.The real inspiration of european music was that it was made with electronic equipment. This would appeal to the Detriot teens. As not a big production would be involved, therefore low cost in hard times. The Bellville three wanted to make funky dance music on cheap synthesisers.

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CybotronCybotronwas an earlyelectrogroup formed in 1980 byJuan AtkinsandRichard "3070" DavisinDetroit, Michigan. Guitarist John "Jon 5" Housley joined soon afterward. Cybotron had a number of singles now considered classics of the electro genre,[1]particularly "Clear" and the group's debut "Alleys Of Your Mind", as well as "Cosmic Cars" and "R-9".Although generally considered electro, Cybotron was also part of the early evolution oftechno music. Cybotron was the first musical outlet of techno co-"originator" Juan Atkins, and the group's unique combination of musical influences, boldly experimental aesthetic, andafro-futuristphilosophy became the underpinnings ofDetroit Techno.cybotron

MetroplexAtkins began recording as "Model 500" in 1985 and founded theMetroplexlabel. His friendsEddie Fowlkes, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson all recorded singles on the label.Atkins' first single as Model 500, "No UFOs," was a hit in Detroit and Chicago. He followed it with a series of landmark techno tracks, earning him the nickname "the godfather of techno."[8]Within a few years, Atkins' work was re-released in EuropeOver the years, Atkins has also released works under the name Infiniti. He explained the difference in a 2007 interview: "Model 500 is really a continuation of Cybotron. That's one thing that I've always stayed the course with and I've always wanted to not deviate when I do stuff with Model 500. In the past year it's probably what Cybotron would have done had the partners not split. Its more song-oriented with melodies, not just dance track - that's always been my experiences with Model 500. Now if I do stuff under the name Infinity [sic], that would be the more straightforward form of pure techno, the purest techno what is deemed as techno right now in North America and in EuropeMetroplex