Alter Ego artist and Underground Resistance’s Bileebob’s is back with a brand new 12″ EP “Call Me,” which features the hot single “Get a Phone.” This beautiful piece of 12″ vinyl can be purchased online at www.submerge.com.
But BileeBob wasn’t satisfied to merely tell you to get a phone. Nope, the famed Detroit DJ made this [...]
Calling out around the world, Nadir, The Regiment, and DJ Mark Flash are bringing the jams to the Detroit streets on Saturday August 14th!
21st century blues man and funk artist, Nadir, and Underground Resistance DJ Mark Flash, and hip hop duo The Regiment will play the 2010 Dancin’ On The Street festival presented by the [...]
Official US Premier of Parts 1&2 +world premier of part 2
Tresor Berlin - The vault and the electronic frontier Pts: 1&2
A documentary with a strong Detroit connection. Techno was built in Detroit but it took Berlin and Tresor to knock the nail home. In 2004 Mike Andrawis released the first independent documentary (now …part [...]
In case you haven’t heard, the United States Social Forum kicks off today in Detroit. Although some grumpy old guy at the Detroit News would have you believe that the USSF is “a hootenany of pinkos, environuts, peaceniks, Luddites, old hippies, Robin Hoods, and urban hunters and gathers,” we know better. The United States Social [...]
Want to experience one of Detroit’s most dedicated DJ’s? Then make sure you do not miss this. Starting the 14th of this month, Underground Resistance’s DJ Mark Flash will be heading to Canada for a two week tour and will be at NOCTURNE CLUB, in Toronto on the 21st. Get ready to move, cause With the [...]
French filmmaker Jacqueline Caux‘ “Cycles of the Mental Machine” is a piece of visual art inspired by the legendary Detroit DJ, The Electrifying Mojo and his book, “The Mental Machine”. Cycles recently received an “Award of Merit” from the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood. “And what,” you may ask, “does this have to do [...]
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Burn by iLLiTe
One of Detroit’s underground hip-hop veterans, iLLiTe has given us the gift of rhyme for over 15 years. If you haven’t heard iLLiTe yet, check out his video for “Burn,” directed by Gerard Victor Atillo and shot right outside of Alter Ego Management’s building in Detroit. “Burn” can be found on iLLiTe’s “Champion [...]
Danny Brown “Re-Up” Video from FWMJ on Vimeo.
FWMJ’s Rappers I Know, a hot spot for emerging hip hop artists, recently debuted Detroit native Danny Brown’s new video for “Re Up,” the first Quelle produced single off Brown’s new album, “The Hybrid.”
“The Hybrid” dropped March 2010 and is available now as a free digital download from [...]
09 Feb, 2010
Posted by: cornelius In: Music
Little White Earbuds, one of the blog sites to reference for all that is worthy of your attention, has rated Mr. Parker’s musical tribute as the top reissue of 2009! The ep was done in tribute to the late great Ken Collier, a Detroit DJ that many a “famous techno/house person” owe a great deal [...]
08 Dec, 2009
Posted by: babu In: News
Yes folks, there’s no more famous quote concerning techno music than Derrick May’s “techno is like Kraftwerk and George Clinton stuck together in an elevator.” And Kraftwerk has had a longstanding relationship with the Motor City, so when the New York Times thought to do a piece on the iconic electronic band, it only made [...]
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