Celebrating two years as creative director at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, Carl Craig is releasing All Access, a CD on his Planet E label, ...

Detroit assembled its own line of defense against the washed out and watered down representations of techno in the early '90s, at the advent of the European explosion.

And projects such as Detroit’s Exhibit 3000, the world’s first museum dedicated to techno, which opened in 2004, help promote the city’s role in developing electronic music.

This Memorial Day weekend, techno music and its fans come home — to Detroit — for the annual Movement Electronic Music Festival. Today, most of techno's audience is in Europe. But its ...

Techno producer Richie Hawtin at Movement festival (photo credit: Bryan Mitchell) As the sun sets on a warm evening at Detroit’s Hart Plaza, a silver-haired lady leans against the stage ...

Originators, producers, DJs, label owners and musicologists — including Juan Atkins, Carl Craig and Jeff Mills — pick 10 tracks that define the Detroit techno sound.

May 25 -- Despite the downer of a nasty internal battle, the second annual Detroit Electronic Music Festival is slated to move forward for three more days of throbbing techno this weekend in the ...

Kevin Saunderson, one of the pioneers of Detroit techno, described the genre to 7 News Detroit. "We still come from Funk, from Soul, and we put a certain love or creativity into the way we created it.

Richie Hawtin is the executive producer of a short film set in the early '90s Detroit electronic music scene. Kids Like Us, ...

Mikel Smith owns Detroit Threads, metro Detroit’s go-to record store for electronic music – particularly Detroit techno – as well as soul, jazz, rock, new wave and anything synth.

(THE CONVERSATION) For over two decades, Detroit has celebrated its status as the birthplace of techno with an electronic music festival held over Memorial Day weekend. Greenwich police said ...