The Story about the EP : Back in 2005, I was in Detroit, playing for Detroit Techno Militia and Electric Avenue for a long weekend I'm not near to forget about. The Electric Avenue event took place on the East Side of Detroit, just in front of the Eastern Market.
After my performance there, I walked around for a few blocks, I was almost next to Gratiot Avenue but I was not feeling sufficiently confident to go further. After all, Detroit still had this reputation of one of the murder capitals of the world. At the same time, my lighter died and I couldn't smoke my cigarette. So, I went back and asked if there was some sort of night shop or a place where I could buy a lighter.My great friend Mitch Walcott took the keys of his car and drived me until the next gas station, the only thing open in the area at that time, around 1 AM, something like that. I entered the gas station, asked for a lighter and the man who was there looked at me with a very strange eye... He said me : "A lighter ? Why the fuck are you asking me for that kind of shit ?" I told him that mine was dead and that I wanted to smoke, simply. He had a smile and told me : "You're not from Detroit man ? Where are you from ? " I said : "I'm french but I come from Belgium" He said : "Oooh You're from France... You know, I can't give anything that generate fire here." I asked : "Why ?" He said : "Man, you're in Detroit here, if I give you a lighter or some mashes, you could burn me and kill me right now, it's a gas station here" At this precise moment, I understood that Detroit was definitely "the hard city". And that my vision of this city was quite far away from a daily reality peoples experience there. He saw that I had no bad intentions and gave me discretly three boxes of mashes, for free. He asked me to be very prudent wherever I go, whoever I meet. This moment happened in Russell Street... The tracks : http://detroittechnomilitia.bandcamp.com/album/russell-ep Hope you'll like the music ! Peace
