When I was about 6, my older sister and I pooled our money to buy
Parliament's "Mothership Connection", and the rest was more
or less inevitable.
Around 1979 or '80 The Electrifying Mojo (God's personal DJ, Detroit
Stylee) started playing new wave records alongside P-Funk, Kraftwerk, and
Prince. Later he began to mix in the then-new Detroit sounds of Atkins,
Saunderson, et. al. Jeff Mills had a nightly DJ slot for a number of
years on a local station as well, where you could hear early Detroit
techno alongside Chicago house, Miami electro and British synthpop. Later
on I heard some dance-industrial (middle-period Ministry, Cabs, and 242)
so that got mixed into the stew as well.
Really, I had no choice in the matter -- IDM is in my blood. :)
| Dave Walker, Detroit Art Services (DAS) |
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