When Detroit techno producer Omar S thinks back on the early days of his label, Fxhe, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, he sounds as down-to-earth as his inviting, party-oriented music suggests. “I was just working at my job and making tracks,” he recalls over Zoom. Before then, he’d sent some music out to the major dance labels at the time, but none seemed to have a place for his sound. “I was sending demos to Nervous Records, Strictly Rhythm, Djax-Up-Beats,” he recalls. “I didn’t hear anything...
- 6/27/2023
- by Jeff Ihaza
- Rollingstone.com
YouTube Originals will launch on Nov. 18 “Behind the Beats,” a novel animated pop music anthology series produced by France’s TeamTO and 22D Music Group in partnership with France Télévisions, the French public broadcaster.
Episodes 1-4 of the novel history of pop will also debut on the YouTube Kids app, YouTube Originals Kids & Family announced on Wednesday.
YouTube and TeamTO have shared first-look images from the series in exclusivity with Variety.
The deal sees YouTube launching the series worldwide but with a one-year holdback in the French language, where France Télévisions has first-window exclusivity.
“This new animated musical series from TeamTO hits a sweet spot for family co-viewing, filling a gap for parents who want to watch something together with their kids that they actually will enjoy,” said Craig Hunter, global head of kids & family originals for YouTube.
Currently packing a first season of 26 five-minute episodes, “Behind the Beats” tells...
Episodes 1-4 of the novel history of pop will also debut on the YouTube Kids app, YouTube Originals Kids & Family announced on Wednesday.
YouTube and TeamTO have shared first-look images from the series in exclusivity with Variety.
The deal sees YouTube launching the series worldwide but with a one-year holdback in the French language, where France Télévisions has first-window exclusivity.
“This new animated musical series from TeamTO hits a sweet spot for family co-viewing, filling a gap for parents who want to watch something together with their kids that they actually will enjoy,” said Craig Hunter, global head of kids & family originals for YouTube.
Currently packing a first season of 26 five-minute episodes, “Behind the Beats” tells...
- 10/12/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“A lot of Black artists that were instrumental in innovation get forgotten,” says Detroit techno legend Juan Atkins, “or purposefully white washed.” His comments play out over footage of Little Richard performing ‘Tutti Frutti’, electrifying, raw and sexy, giving way to the then-more acceptable cover version by Pat Boone, cosy, sexless and dull. The same thing has happened with Detroit’s early electronic music, with David Guetta – white, European, younger – getting credited as the “grandfather”of the genre. It’s a misconception that Kristian R. Hill’s God Said Give Em Drum Machines aims to set right, though it loses its way somewhat on the journey.
New York was the birthplace of hip hop, and Chicago gave us house, but it was Detroit where dance music created entirely with electronic instruments – drum machines and synths rather than samples and scratched vinyl – was pioneered by a handful of young Black men; Juan Atkins,...
New York was the birthplace of hip hop, and Chicago gave us house, but it was Detroit where dance music created entirely with electronic instruments – drum machines and synths rather than samples and scratched vinyl – was pioneered by a handful of young Black men; Juan Atkins,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Marc Burrows
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
White people have stolen music from black people for decades and then some. This is a matter of historical record. No surprise, then, that white musicians stole techno, too. Kristian R. Hill’s documentary “God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines” purportedly runs down techno’s long journey from Detroit to Germany, from the hands of black artists to European ones, from the 1980s to the 2000s and beyond; one of Hill’s main subjects, Juan Atkins, lays the groundwork for making this case very early in the film, citing Pat Boone’s lifting Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” as just one instance among many others of white mediocrity diluting black genius.
Continue reading ‘God Said Give’ Em Drum Machines’ Doesn’t Quite Live Up To Its Historic Premise [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘God Said Give’ Em Drum Machines’ Doesn’t Quite Live Up To Its Historic Premise [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
- 6/14/2022
- by Andrew Crump
- The Playlist
New documentaries on T. Rex, Leonard Cohen, and Lil Baby are among the films set to screen at the 2022 Tribeca Festival (formerly known as the Tribeca Film Festival), taking place June 8 through 19 in New York City.
Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex, was written and directed by Ethan Silverman, and will get its premiere at Tribeca. The film pairs a deep dive into Bolan’s life and career with a look at the making of the 2020 T. Rex tribute album (also titled Angelheaded Hipster), which was...
Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex, was written and directed by Ethan Silverman, and will get its premiere at Tribeca. The film pairs a deep dive into Bolan’s life and career with a look at the making of the 2020 T. Rex tribute album (also titled Angelheaded Hipster), which was...
- 4/19/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Farewell to the great Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, the German electronic duo who changed everything about the way music sounds. “Kraftwerk is not a band,” Schneider told Rolling Stone in 1975. “It’s a concept. We call it ‘Die Menschmaschine,’ which means ‘the human machine.’ We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas.” As his longtime collaborator Ralf Hütter once said, Schneider was the “sound fetishist” of the group — the machine in the mensch-machine.
Kraftwerk always reveled in their reputation as cerebral technocrats.
Kraftwerk always reveled in their reputation as cerebral technocrats.
- 5/7/2020
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
These days, Ice-t‘s résumé reads like a long biblical scroll. He’s one of the original pioneers of gangsta rap via seminal releases like “6 in the Mornin,‘” one of the greatest hip-hop songs of all time. He’s hosted and produced multiple TV shows and documentary films, including The Art of Rap and the VH1 documentary Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation. That’s on top of a hefty acting filmography, which includes starring roles in films like New Jack City; his now-defunct reality TV series Ice Loves Coco,...
- 10/18/2018
- by John Ochoa
- Rollingstone.com
Electric Daisy Carnival (Edc) Las Vegas 2016: Insomniac Proves That Dance Music Isn’t Going Anywhere
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If the buzz is any indicator, Edm is on its way out – but anyone who attended the 2016 edition of Electric Daisy Carnival (Edc) Las Vegas last weekend would likely tell you otherwise. Insomniac Events organized a magnificent 20th anniversary celebration for its flagship festival, going to great lengths to ensure that those in attendance would look back on the landmark event with a special fondness.
After all, there were quite a few of them to witness what took place. Edc 20’s organizers reported that three-day attendance broke the 400,000 mark for the second time in the festival’s history, although it took two months longer for this year’s edition of the festival to sell out than that of last year. The festival nearly came to a close with zero reported fatalities for the first time in three years, but...
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If the buzz is any indicator, Edm is on its way out – but anyone who attended the 2016 edition of Electric Daisy Carnival (Edc) Las Vegas last weekend would likely tell you otherwise. Insomniac Events organized a magnificent 20th anniversary celebration for its flagship festival, going to great lengths to ensure that those in attendance would look back on the landmark event with a special fondness.
After all, there were quite a few of them to witness what took place. Edc 20’s organizers reported that three-day attendance broke the 400,000 mark for the second time in the festival’s history, although it took two months longer for this year’s edition of the festival to sell out than that of last year. The festival nearly came to a close with zero reported fatalities for the first time in three years, but...
- 6/25/2016
- by John Cameron
- We Got This Covered
Tight knit as it is, the Detroit techno scene is not without its controversies. We provided a brief history of the genre to supplement our recent coverage of Movement 2016, but even we admittedly left out one of its most outspoken early figures: Eddie Fowlkes.
Fowlkes released music shortly before any of the Belleville Three, the trio comprised of Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson whom are widely credited as the originators of Detroit techno. As he told us in an interview during Detroit Techno Week, he wishes to not be associated with the Belleville Three and believes that it was devised by May as a means of keeping him and other early techno pioneers from receiving proper credit.
Fowlkes’ resentment towards May is nothing new. We asked May about it as a side note when we met up with him on the same day, and he told us the...
Fowlkes released music shortly before any of the Belleville Three, the trio comprised of Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson whom are widely credited as the originators of Detroit techno. As he told us in an interview during Detroit Techno Week, he wishes to not be associated with the Belleville Three and believes that it was devised by May as a means of keeping him and other early techno pioneers from receiving proper credit.
Fowlkes’ resentment towards May is nothing new. We asked May about it as a side note when we met up with him on the same day, and he told us the...
- 6/9/2016
- by John Cameron
- We Got This Covered
No record of the history of techno is complete without a mention of the Belleville Three. Berlin may be have emerged as the genre’s unofficial capital for the last decade and a half of its history, but Detroit DJ/producers Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins are largely cited as its original pioneers.
Be that as it may, during an era in which techno’s popularity is at an all-time high, the Belleville Three have been somewhat removed from the conversation.
As we recently touched on in our Movement 2016 coverage, May, Atkins and Saunderson met as teenagers in the rural Detroit suburb of Belleville. For having taught the other two how to produce electronic music, Atkins is often referred to as “The Originator.” In addition, he’s credited for coining the term “techno” itself with the 1988 compilation Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit, which he adopted from...
Be that as it may, during an era in which techno’s popularity is at an all-time high, the Belleville Three have been somewhat removed from the conversation.
As we recently touched on in our Movement 2016 coverage, May, Atkins and Saunderson met as teenagers in the rural Detroit suburb of Belleville. For having taught the other two how to produce electronic music, Atkins is often referred to as “The Originator.” In addition, he’s credited for coining the term “techno” itself with the 1988 compilation Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit, which he adopted from...
- 6/7/2016
- by John Cameron
- We Got This Covered
Only in this day and age could a politician win over a segment of a city’s population by appealing to its techno enthusiasts. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has declared May 23rd-30th Detroit Techno Week just in time for the 2016 edition of Movement Detroit – and it has a certificate of recognition and everything.
As we’ve mentioned before, Detroit has been revered as the birthplace of techno since as far back as Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins (known collectively as the Belleville Three) formulated the genre in the ’80s. Movement Detroit has emerged as a mecca for the original “other” genre since its inaugural edition in 2000, and it falls conveniently on the end of the date range specified by Mayor Duggan.
“Detroit becomes a tourist destination for music lovers,” Mayor Mike Duggan wrote in the certificate. “I encourage all to come out and celebrate the festivities, as...
As we’ve mentioned before, Detroit has been revered as the birthplace of techno since as far back as Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins (known collectively as the Belleville Three) formulated the genre in the ’80s. Movement Detroit has emerged as a mecca for the original “other” genre since its inaugural edition in 2000, and it falls conveniently on the end of the date range specified by Mayor Duggan.
“Detroit becomes a tourist destination for music lovers,” Mayor Mike Duggan wrote in the certificate. “I encourage all to come out and celebrate the festivities, as...
- 5/24/2016
- by John Cameron
- We Got This Covered
Simian Mobile Disco, Juan Atkins, Vitalic and Derrick May have been announced in the first wave of acts for the new Fire: In Session series of shows in London this autumn. The club nights are hosted by a number of top dance brands, including Bedrock, Bugged Out, Rwd Magazine, Mixmag Live, Lost, Neon Noise Project, Kitsune Club Night, What Matters and others. The nights will be held at Fire on South Lambeth Road from 11pm to 6am, and early bird tickets are available now for £12.50. The first wave of acts announced is as follows:
September 15: Mixmag Live w/ Steve Aoki, South Central, Doorly, Dod + more TBASeptember 22: Sub-Tracked and SantoVida Present What Matters w/ Pleasurekraft, Format:b, *Special Guest Tba* + more TBAOctober 6: Bedrock Birthday w/ John Digweed, Apparat (DJ set), Amirali (Live), Electric Rescue, Maxime Dangles Al Tourettes / 10pm-7amOctober (more)...
September 15: Mixmag Live w/ Steve Aoki, South Central, Doorly, Dod + more TBASeptember 22: Sub-Tracked and SantoVida Present What Matters w/ Pleasurekraft, Format:b, *Special Guest Tba* + more TBAOctober 6: Bedrock Birthday w/ John Digweed, Apparat (DJ set), Amirali (Live), Electric Rescue, Maxime Dangles Al Tourettes / 10pm-7amOctober (more)...
- 8/20/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
When it was announced 18 months ago that half-French/half-robot DJ duo Daft Punk were on board to score and produce the soundtrack for the upcoming “Tron: Legacy,” as much was made of the duo’s involvement as the movie itself.
The blogs went wet, gushing over the synergy between the group’s dancey, futuristic sounds and the glimmering futureworld of a film based on a 1982 movie that, at the time, was at the forefront of computer graphic imagery.
But to paraphrase Paul Simon, If you took all the Daft Punk film collaborations, they’d never match my sweet imagination.
Untainted fantasy is usually better than reality and with the massive marketing blitz being showered on Daft Punk, the end result is a lot of sound and fury signifying, well, not nothing, but a fairly standard symphonic film score with added electronic flourishes.
Daft Punk – New Music – More Music Videos
Over 24 tracks,...
The blogs went wet, gushing over the synergy between the group’s dancey, futuristic sounds and the glimmering futureworld of a film based on a 1982 movie that, at the time, was at the forefront of computer graphic imagery.
But to paraphrase Paul Simon, If you took all the Daft Punk film collaborations, they’d never match my sweet imagination.
Untainted fantasy is usually better than reality and with the massive marketing blitz being showered on Daft Punk, the end result is a lot of sound and fury signifying, well, not nothing, but a fairly standard symphonic film score with added electronic flourishes.
Daft Punk – New Music – More Music Videos
Over 24 tracks,...
- 12/7/2010
- by Jason Newman
- NextMovie
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