Hey all, I've been asked why Ypsilanti is 313 related, and I thought it would be super fun to explain that publicly.
In my experience, Detroit techno is much bigger than Detroit, and much bigger than one strictly defined genre of music. Obviously the influence is global, so that is one way that it reaches beyond Detroit. But the whole region of southeast Michigan is central to the history of techno, and electronic dance music in general. The Electrifying Mojo started his radio program in Ann Arbor on AM radio in the mid 1970s. Detroit techno founders, Juan, Derrick, Kevin, and Eddie, all spent significant parts of their youth in Belleville. WCBN, out of Ann Arbor, had a significant impact on listeners who are now totally awesome electronic music producers and/or DJs in this area like Tadd Mullinix, Todd Osborn, and Carlos Souffront. Brendan Gillen transformed Crush Collision on WCBN from a primarily jazz program to a dope electronic music program. Erika Sherman (of Ectomorph with Brendan) also spent some years in Ann Arbor and DJing on WCBN. Lots of Detroit DJs, during the 1970s - 1990s played in Ann Arbor. I'm still not addressing Ypsilanti directly, I know. I just want to emphasize that I think Detroit techno is part of a much larger, and diverse, regional culture and history. Ypsilanti of 10, or even 5 years ago, probably wasn't super connected to Detroit in terms of electronic music. However, it is becoming one stop along the regional techno circuit. There are a number of people who live in Ypsi, or spend time and energy in Ypsi, who are significant to the contemporary state of Detroit electronic music. Todd Osborn is one in particular. He is the reason why this Rephlex event is happening at Woodruff's in Ypsi. Todd hosts a regular Sunday night at Woodruff's and DJs other parties there. Plus Woodruff's is becoming a really great musical and cultural space, in general. I'd love to hear others thoughts on this! Denise > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Denise Dalphond <ddalp...@umail.iu.edu> > wrote: >> Ypsilanti makes it 313 related!!! Plus, Todd Osborn and Tadd Mullinix >> round out the Detroit nicely. >> >> A little post I put up about Rephlex 20th anniversary events happening >> in the midwest this weekend: >> >> http://schoolcraftwax.com/2011/08/30/rephlex-is-twenty/ >> >> -- >> Denise Dalphond >> Ph.D. Candidate >> Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology >> Indiana University >> http://schoolcraftwax.com/ >> > -- Denise Dalphond Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology Indiana University http://schoolcraftwax.com/
