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Techno Keeps Forgetting Where It Came From. Akua Won't Let It.
Ghanaian-American DJ Akua, born Tracy Bee, digs up 1990s Detroit and Chicago house and techno pressings and threads them straight into her Berlin sets, insisting: "you can't have techno without house."
Emma S. · 5 min read
Detroit Techno Just Lost the Man Who Explained It to the World. John Collins Was the Tour Guide.
John "Jammin" Collins, the Underground Resistance ambassador who ran Submerge's Exhibit 3000 techno museum and DJed Cheeks Nightclub alongside Jeff Mills in the 1980s, has died; Detroit Techno Militia announced the news on Facebook on July 26, no cause disclosed.
Finn M. · 5 min read
Detroit Gave Techno Its Rulebook. Jeff Mills Tore It Up and Kept Playing.
Jeff Mills co-founded Underground Resistance in 1989, then built a solo catalog on Axis Records that turned Detroit's rawest techno into a global minimalist blueprint.
Finn M. · 6 min read
Dekmantel Spent 12 Years Guarding the Forest. This Year It Opened the Gates to Skrillex.
Dekmantel's 12th edition, opening July 29 in Amsterdam, adds a dawn forest program and a first ever city takeover, while putting EDM crossover star Skrillex on a bill built around Underground Resistance and Ricardo Villalobos.
Josh D. · 5 min read
Underground Resistance and Saul Williams meet at Dekmantel: Detroit techno's political spine, spoken aloud
Dekmantel 2026 pairs Underground Resistance, Detroit's most uncompromising techno collective, with poet Saul Williams for a special live set on Friday 31 July at the Amsterdamse Bos, a booking that reads like the whole Techno Resistance argument condensed into one stage.
Finn M. · 4 min read
Detroit Invented Techno. Tec-Troit Is Asking What the Tourists Owe.
As Detroit cashes in on its techno legacy with an official Techno Week and a festival economy worth 20 million dollars, a small free festival and the music's Black originators are pressing a harder question: what do the visitors who built careers on this city give back?
Finn M. · 5 min read
Jeff Mills Won't Do Techno Nostalgia. He's Building Its Future.
Techno's own architect refuses to let the music live in its past. At 63 the Detroit pioneer still mixes on three decks with no sync button, treats techno as education over entertainment, and the same month he marked 30 years of his most famous live set he shipped a brand-new sci-fi concept album. He honours the past without missing it, and points everything forward.
Finn M. · 4 min read
DJs Don't Need a Brand. They Need a Myth.
The acts that endure in electronic music, from Daft Punk to Drexciya, never sold a personal brand; they built a world you could disappear into, and in an age of AI sameness that mythology is the only moat a DJ has left.
Charlie M. · 5 min read
Tec-Troit Returns to Detroit June 26-28: 34 Artists, Free Admission, and the Soul of Techno Still Intact
Now in its 16th year, Tec-Troit sets up at the abandoned Herman Kiefer Hospital for a free, all-ages weekend of Detroit techno, with Mike Banks, Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter and 30+ more on the bill.
Finn M. · 5 min read
Houghton 2026 Books Underground Resistance for Their UK Festival Debut, Sells Out All 200 Acts
The Norfolk festival announces its most expansive lineup to date, headlined by Underground Resistance's first-ever UK festival appearance alongside Ricardo Villalobos, Helena Hauff, Ben UFO and close to 200 artists.
Josh D. · 4 min read
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