Midwest Techno Originals

Aril Brikha was born in Tehran, Iran and emigrated to Stockholm, Sweden at the age of three right around the time of the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979. He started playing keyboard when he was 7 years old and by the mid nineties was confident enough to shop some labels in his new Swedish [...]

Drexciya was a duo that kept their identities secret throughout much of the group’s decade long existence. They combined a faceless, underground, anti-mainstream media stance with mythological, sci-fi narratives, to help heighten the dramatic effect of their music. In this respect they were similar to artists within and close to the Detroit collective Underground [...]

Reverting is taken from Jeff Mill’s The Purpose Maker EP released in 1995 on his Axis label.  I wasn’t sure if I should blog about a legendary superstar who is known to 99% of the people reading this blog but then I realized, most of them have probably not followed this man as closely as [...]

Oh man oh man! When I hear this track, the word Minimal is the furthest thing from my mind. However, DBX aka Dan Bell is known for making some of the rockinest minimal dance tracks to come out in the early and mid nineties. Besides helping me make an argument for minimal [...]