TAG: Mike Huckaby

May03

Advice For Opening DJs From Josh Wink, DJ Dan, Shiftee and More

We’ve all been there, walking into the club only to be confronted with an opening DJ pounding out the biggest peaktime tunes to a sparse crowd of early arrivals who are more concerned with checking their coat and grabbing a drink than sweating it out on the dance floor. It’s the first no-no of the warm-up DJ set, and is repeated by all of the star jocks—including Josh Wink, Hector Romero, Mike Huckaby and DJ Dan—in a recent blog post by NYC DJ school Dubspot. Other tips include making room for the next DJ in the booth, not dropping the headliners biggest hit right before he goes on (duh) and packing something “throwback or silly” which according to DJ Shiftee will make your set memorable without messing with the vibe of the whole evening.

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Aug09

Watch A Doc On Detroit Techno In 2011 (Video)

Our friends over at Resident Advisor recently spent a week in Detroit to create this min-doc about the current state of the city’s techno scene. Included in the piece are interviews with Brendan Gillan (Ectomorph), Kyle Hall, Rick Wilhite, and URB’s own Joshua Glazer. Our favorite part is towards the end of the 20 minute clip, when the filmmakers visit Youthville to see Mike Huckaby teaching two kids, age 11 and 14, the intricacies of electronic music production.


Real Scenes: Detroit from Resident Advisor on Vimeo.


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Nov08

Unsound Festival 2010 Review (Krakow)

One of the best reasons to hop on a plane to Poland. 

As mentioned before in my previous post on Unsound, it’s a festival that is known for enticing its demographic with risks, rewards and thematic atmosphere. With the theme of horror being the crux of the whole weekly event, there was ways that anything and everything could go wrong. However, just when one would think the undertaking of layering an entire festival with a theme would turn out horrific (no pun intended), somehow the curtain comes down to show off something off-kilter yet preserved in its magnificence. Unsound 2010 in Krakow, from start to finish, was one of the most daring and endearing festivals to ever come about. …MORE

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Nov01

Ten Things I Learned At Unsound 2010 (Krakow)

Horrific and heart-warming, in the best way imaginable. 

This past February in New York, Unsound Festival branded itself stateside by launching a New York City version of its seminal satellite event. To many people’s pleasant surprise (myself included), the festival gained a considerable amount of welcoming and wonderful press, coverage from outlets such as: The New York Times, Time Out New York, Self-Titled Magazine, XLR8R and ourselves at URB. While Unsound was hailed a success in New York, their original festival location in Krakow has been an important part of Polish arts and culture, finding countless ways to invigorate experimental and electronic music in the midst of a historically rich city. Using venues such as cinemas, museums and most interestingly, an abandoned cosmetics factory, Unsound 2010 upped the ante this year by having a line-up that was as huge as the leap it was about …

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May18

Oral History of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival

Those crazy kids over at Resident Advisor went and did the seemingly impossible, interviewing over 50 people to get the complete(ish) story of Detroit’s annual techno festival. They even talked to URB’s own Detroit native Joshua Glazer. From Carl Craig and Richie Hawtin to Paxahau and the Mayor of Detroit, it’s a serious read.

To explain the many twists and turns of the festival thus far, we turned to the people that were directly involved. Artists, promoters, city officials, journalists, more than 50 in all, presenting an oral history of Detroit’s electronic music festival. READ


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