The reason the album worked out so well is the way Noel elevated the music. Without him I would have recorded it very differently. He encouraged me to incorporate my love for electronic music, to mess ...

Not familiar with techno? Here are the basics everyone should know about the electronic music genre born in Detroit.

A teenage Jamie Hodge enchanted the international underground-dance community in 1993 with his debut 12-inch as Born Under a Rhyming Planet, Analog: Heaven. Techno figurehead Richie Hawtin released ...

At 60, the D.J. and producer is inspiring fresh generations with new work, including an LP that approximates the experience of traveling through a black hole. By Mike Rubin During a recent performance ...

Moon Hooch performs during an April 2023 episode of "That's My Jam." Moon Hooch will be among the performers at this year’s Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival, happening Saturday at Jennings Landing at ...

A new exhibit at the Michigan State University Museum celebrates Detroit as the birthplace of techno music in the 1980s and '90s and how the genre has progressed to today. "Techno: The Rise of Detroit ...

Such moments are, in a way, the essence of techno — an escape from reality that pulls the dance floor into a raw, instinctive headspace, stripping away self-consciousness. The Sejong Center described ...

In the interests of organization, this year I tracked new music in an ongoing iTunes playlist, but the attempt at housekeeping had one unexpectedly stressful consequence: I now have hard numbers to ...

Rapper Common's newest album Electric Circus is a hybrid of several different styles. Expanding on the jazz and bohemian feel from his previous albums, this one has a variety of different experimental ...

Jeff Mills’ memories of his first performance in Cork are a blur. It was 1996 and the Detroit DJ, producer and composer – then known as the wizard of electronic music – was touring his acclaimed ...

The TechnoCats are a group of five talented young musicians, each of whom has ties to Michigan State University in East Lansing, as does composer (and co-producer) Gregg Hill, whose music the ...