Dan was the real deal -- smart, aware, engaging. I miss him loads -- we all do.
fh ----------------- >So sad that he's gone... worse that there will not be another. > >On Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 11:56 AM Andrew Duke <andrewdukecognit...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> Happy Birthday, Dan. "Daniel S. Sicko [26Sep1968-28Aug2011] was a music >> journalist and scholar of techno music dedicated to legitimizing Detroit >> techno and establishing its place in music history. He earned a B.S. from >> the University of Detroit in 1990 and established a career in digital >> advertising, ultimately serving as a Creative Director of the Detroit >> office of the advertising firm Organic, Inc. Early in his career Sicko was >> a freelance writer for *Rolling Stone*, electronic and underground music >> periodicals such as *Alternative Press* and *URB*, and the digital >> technology magazine *Wired*. He also founded *Reverb*, one of the first >> periodicals exclusively devoted to digital music. Sicko is perhaps best >> known for his book *Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk* (first >> published in 1999 and reissued in 2010), which is widely considered to be a >> groundbreaking text with regard to the history of Detroit techno music. >> *Techno >> Rebels* chronicles the genre's origins as an underground movement led by >> Detroit's African-American high school students. Sicko also gave lectures >> on the Detroit music scene and was a key figure in the establishment of the >> 313 Mailing List (a 1990s mailing list critical for enthusiasts of Detroit >> techno). Throughout his career Sicko engaged in extensive researches on the >> Detroit music industry and on electronic music in general, for which he >> conducted dozens of interviews with Detroit-based techno artists and >> producers." >> >> Source: Kirn, Peter. "Loss of a Techno Rebel: Why Dan Sicko will be Sorely >> Missed." *createdigitalmusic.com <http://createdigitalmusic.com>* , 29 >> August 2011. >> >
