Detroit Just Got Its Hands on Chicago's Holiest Deep House Record
Chez Damier's 1992 deep house touchstone "Can You Feel It" returns on Balance on November 27 with two new Underground Resistance remixes on the B-side.
Chez Damier's 1992 deep house touchstone "Can You Feel It" returns on Balance on November 27 with two new Underground Resistance remixes on the B-side.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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