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Artist: Various Artists Title: Detroit Beatdown Vol.1 Label: Third Ear Distribution: Baked Goods Format: 3LP/ 2CD Cat. No.: 3E CD 001/3E LP 001 Streetdate: 7/10/2002 Featuring new and exclusive tracks from Theo Parrish, Mike Clark, Alton Miller, Eddie Fowlkes, Rich Wilhite, L.A. Williams, and more. Many of the artists on Detroit Beatdown Vol. 1 have been making music and playing in the clubs of the American Mid-West, which includes Detroit and Chicago, for a very long time. Detroit is famous as the place where the qualitative step was made from House to Techno, and the development of a particular type of electronic music which is now known as Detroit Techno. But in Detroit, the labels which are attached to the music in Europe and elsewhere, are not really evident. Musicians, producers, and DJs tend to refer to it all as Techno, or Dance Music, or Electronic Music or House, depending on who you talk to. As a result of attention paid to musical developments in Detroit since the mid-1980s, and the particular bias that has resulted from record company press releases and the music magazines, What has been labelled 'Detroit Techno' has stolen the limelight from other strains of electronic music in the city. Generally speaking, this is justified, although it demonstrates a lack of concern for the facts among record company promotion departments and music writers over the period. Within Detroit, or specifically within Eight Mile Road, the culturally recognised boundary of Downtown Detroit and 'The Suburbs', it has been noted that 'Techno' has been more the outsider and remained virtually unknown, and there is an element of truth in this. Certainly the music which has come to be known as 'Detroit Techno' is difficult to find, but electronic music made in the city is played in the bars and clubs, and much of which is known locally as Techno. Beatdownsounds.com is a website dedicated to Beatdown music. In it's early incarnation, Theo Parrish, Kenny Dixon Jnr., Mike Clark, all had mixes on the site. It is telling that, even among the British music press, where the urge to categorise seems to have been overwhelmed by the quality of the music produced by these artists, all are regarded simply as coming from Detroit. This might also be more to do with the fact that their music defies categorisation by the categories available, and a conscious effort to avoid categories by some. Other artists featured on the Beatdownsounds.com website included Terrence Parker, Norm Talley, Delano Smith, Rick Wilhite. Terrence Parker is regarded as the don of Detroit House. Norm Talley, for all his deep minimal Techno tracks, mixes the sweetest House sets or proper Disco sets. Anybody who hears Kenny Dixon Jnr or Theo Parrish DJ will here the whole spectrum of black American music. Rick 'The Godson' Wilhite, also. Eddie Fowlkes is known as the fourth Godfather of Techno, after Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, and Juan Atkins. This has been as much to do with the ability of the others to promote themselves, as with their undeniable abilities. Yet to hear Eddie Fowlkes DJ, is also to hear a wide variety of music. On reflection, this is not a characteristic, even, of the DJs associated with Beatdown, but of all Detroit DJs. Derrick May, Blake Baxter, all the genre-defining Detroit Techno DJs play a wide spectrum of music, displaying a broad knowledge, soul, and technique. The best way to get a handle on what Beatdown is, is first of all, simply to listen to any of these artists DJ, then imagine them going 'beat-down'. TRACKLIST Disc One Malik Alston: Butterfly Alton Miller: Tulum Theo Parrish: Falling Up Rick Wilhite: Ruby Nights Norm Talley: Exodus Mike Clark: The Creeper Norm Talley: Change Mike Clark: Let Your Love Darren Abrams: Loose Piano Disc Two Delano Smith: Metropolis Eddie Fowlkes: Brotherman L.A. Williams: Velvet Musac Eddie Fowlkes: Powerquest Dwayne Jensen: My People Go deep... All the way deep... Beatdown deep. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
