Apollo Brown’s upcoming instrumental album Clouds drops March 1st, 2011 via Mello Music Group. His previous work with The Reset, Brown Study, Gas Mask, and developed this Detroit producer a solid following from both fans and critics alike.
Today, enjoy the mp3 download of Time Passed Autumn a track from Clouds. The track is representative of the album, as Clouds is more like a mood piece more so than a album full of ‘bangers.’ Please stay tuned for the upcoming music video for the song Time Passed Autumn dropping next week.
If you’re wondering why we’re jocking this whole Dirtbombs-do-techno thing, it’s simple—I’m from Detroit and this shit is dope. Following the Ectomorph remix of The DBs cover of the Underground Resistance classic “Jaguar,” we now have the full remix EP for streaming or download from Scion. Omar S hands over a marching version of A Number of Names’ “Sharevari,” arguably the first techno record, while Kyle Hall turns Carl Craig’s breakbeat classic “Bugs In The Bassbin” into a mutant shuffle that you’d have to be seriously corrupted to dance to.
What happenes when four techno-obsessed friends from Detroit—Seth Troxler, Lee Curtiss, Ryan Crosson, and Shaun Reeves—move to Berlin and find fame on the global DJ/producer circuit? They start an “art house” label that has [almost] nothing to do with dance music. URB sat down with Troxler, the number three DJ in the world, at Mexico’s BPM Festival to find out more about this new collaborative project, and the first release—the very techno titled “Where The Freaks Have No Name” by Benoit & Sergio …MORE
Garage rockers The Dirtbombs have been getting a whole lot of attention lately for their upcoming album, Party Store, which finds the Detroit group pulling a 180 on a bunch of hometown techno classics—including “Sharevari,” “Cosmic Cars” and “Bugs in the Bassbin.” There’s also going to be an EP of remixes done by Detroit techno producers Kyle Hall, Omar S and Ectomorph—a full 360 degree circle if you will.
Here’s a little more Detroit techno getting a new makeover for the holidays. A number of Name’s “Sharevari” has been called the first Detroit techno record, pre-dating Cybotron’s “Clear” by a good two years. The tune was custom made for the local Detroit dance party scene, which fancied itself as an urban version of the mainly imaginary European club scene—all Morodoer-inspired glitz and glamour.
Detroit garage rockers The Dirtbombs cover this synthesizer classic in their own expectedly scuzzy way. And the video even pays tribute to Detroit cult classic TV broadcast “The Scene,” which clued in a whole generation of Motown’s ’80s babies to what was happening in the city after dark.
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