The Detroit Techno Militia has been getting a ton of support from
international DJ extrordinaire, Dave Clarke on his weekly radio show,
White Noise. On March 31, 2007 he played Ippon off DTM001 on the
Electro/Ghetto Tek Special installment, and T.Linder's "Wolfpack" and
"Wolfbeats" off DTM002 have made a few rotations since. On June 2,
2007 Mr. Clarke gave two of T.Linder's yet-to-be-released tracks,
"Respect" and "Depth Stalker" their international debut.
Here's a new DJ mix that T.Linder recently recorded for Dave Clarke's
White Noise Radio. It's mainly Techno/Electro with a handful of
unreleased material.
“Similar to the
restoration of historic architecture, we are not tearing down and
building anew. Rather, (we're) using the existing structure as a basis
for our own endeavors. Detroit has always had much to offer musically.
It is our mission to make it known to the rest of the world for
generations to come.” Thus is the vision of the Detroit Techno Militia,
a grassroots collective of electronic artists and enthusiasts concerned
with keeping Detroit techno alive and well, honoring its past and
helping shape its future.
“DTM is an amalgamation of all the
things that have inspired us, both on the music end and the business
end,” says Angie Schwendemann, owner and label manager of DTM. “We’ve
been able to work closely with the people we look up to and develop DTM
into more than just a DJ crew.” Schwendemann and her partner, Tom
Linder, combined a basic idea and visual direction to make the idea
into reality. Enlisting the talents of close friends as “soldiers,”
DTM's roster of DJs and producers is impressive, with several enjoying
tour dates, special guest spots on Internet radio shows and a worldwide
community of supporters, brought together through DTM’s interactive Web
site, DetroitTechnoMilitia.com.
Now
DTM proudly presents DTM001, the first release on its own label. The
three-track disc features new music from DTM soldiers abroad: Belgium’s
The Mercenary, North Carolina’s Loner.9, and an additional artist. The
Militia celebrates the release on Saturday night at McCarthy’s Pub,
keeping the cover charge non-existent (that’s free, people!). Snag your
copy of the new release along with DTM002, the first solo release from
T.Linder featuring the tracks “No Retreat No Surrender” and “Wolfpack
& Wolfbeats.” The party will feature a live set by Loner.9 and
selections by DTM DJs T.Linder, Darkcube, Dan Lucas, Neil V, DJ Psycho
and DJ Seoul.
“We believe in what we do, and take pride in
contributing to a tradition that has deeply inspired us,” Schwendemann
says. “Detroit Techno Militia soldiers work to maintain and preserve
the significance of techno made in our native city.”
DJ Seoul is bringing a hot electro mix to kick the weekend off. DJ Seoul will be preforming at this years DEMF on Saturday. Make sure to catch his preformance on the Detroit Stage from 12pm - 2pm
Felton Howard is one of Detroit's legendary multi-genre DJs. His diverse style is rooted in his appreciation for Gospel music and uplifting House, as well as Garage, Disco, and of course, Techno. He is one of the few DJs in Detroit that had the opportunity to meet the legendary Larry Levan, at the Paradise Garage, as well as visiting the hallowed Better Days nightclub in New York City.
In 1976, Howard solidified his commitment to becoming a professional DJ by becoming the first mobile DJ in the city of Detroit. He owned Technics 1200 turntables, a Bozak mixer and a huge Cerwin Vega sound system. This sound system later became the tool of many of artists that were starting to make names for themselves in the Motor City. The equipment was fitting for a work schedule that made Felton the first DJ in Detroit to perform four nights a week. In the 1980s he was the first DJ to create the twelve-hour, non-stop music parties for packed crowds (1500+) as the resident DJ at Climax2. During this period, Howard had the opportunity to compete and play alongside several other seminal Detroit artists: Ken Collier, Stacey Hale, Duane and Tyrone Bradley. At this time, he learned how to outfit a club with proper audio equipment from his time spent working with Ed Duncan of Duncan Sound Systems, the audio supplier to all of the city's major clubs until the late 1980s.
In the 1990s Felton Howard took his many years of club experience and opened up a late-night underground venue, Club Better Days, named after the club in New York. At Better Days, he opened up the booth and crushing sound system to other DJs, and resided over one of the few afterhours multi-cultural dance clubs in the Detroit at that time.
In 2001, Howard's love for technology directed him to become one of the first DJs on the planet to use the Final Scratch turntable/laptop interface. With this new tool he was able to use it to its full potential, performing DJ sets comprised almost entirely of his own remixes and edits.
After Better Days closed, he returned to his first passion as a DJ, he has maintained a hectic performance and touring schedule ever since. His 30+ years of experience has proven that time has enriched Felton Howard's intimacy with the many facets of electronic music. In his own words, "House is not dead. It just moved to a different location."
DTM Represent!
Our good friend Tiger at the ancient ruins of Bet Sh'ean - Israel.
Wizard Mixes Anyone?
A discussion on the UR forum prompted one of our members to digitize his Wizard mix collection. In all, he digitized 7 sets ranging in time from 13 - 50 minutes long. He also included 7 of his own tribute mixes to pay homage to the master. I would like to personally thank Needlz for taking the time to do this. We have been dying for new Wizard sets. Please keep in mind they were recorded from tape.
I was born in Toronto Canada, but I was raised in Grand Rapids MI. I had a serious musical background my mother played guitar and sang the blues in bands for years. Always loved music and never knew anything else. My mom always had Aretha Franklin or the pointer sisters or Taj Mahal or Patty Labell playing in the house. Stuff like that, so groove was introduced very early to me.
When I was 13 I started breakdancing and couldn’t get enough of that new street sound, you know? Then it happened, when I was 14 my friend came back from Detroit and had a tape of the wizard and we were breakin to it. That’s when I became more interested in the music we were listening to. I asked him "what is this?" He said this is the wizard on WDRQ-before WJLB and that was it.
I stopped dancing and began trying to scratch on my moms fold out turntable. I used to hook the microphone up by the speaker of the fold out turntable, play a record on the stereo-system turntable and scratch threw the mic. It was awful, but it worked. Later I got equipment at pawn shops and started to make tapes.
My mom was a teacher and about 4 times a year she had to go to Detroit, so I started going with her to record the Wizard who by this time was on JLB. When I started to get good around the age of 16, I met this guy who rapped and we ended up getting a contract at 4-sight records. We flew down to Miami and made a 12-inch called Mega Jons Bass Backed w/ Dance Transformer. The music business back then was even worse than it is today, as far as actually trying to make it. I just wanted to make people happy with my mixin’. I didn’t, and still don’t, care about cash…its just not me.
The Wizard influenced me threw all of this, I would listen to his mixes and be like man I wish I could do that. That is what influenced me to make the tribute mixes. Over the years my scratchin’ has developed immensely so it was hard to do those because I had to put myself in the mind set of about 20 years ago. It was a blast and I look forward to doing more, you know I used tape decks to do those mixes, that’s it!
The Needlz tribute mixes are only out of total respect for Jeff. I did my best to make them true and remember they are 87 style. I think you guys who love the wizard will like them they are all me, not pieces of Jeff’s mixes, the wizard mixes are a variety from 86-89.
Needlz
Dan Lucas Live @ BANG!
Dan Lucas is back with a new live mix from his recent appearance down in Cincinnati @ BANG! This mix is 100% live, no editing, crowd noise included (listen close for the DE-TROIT chants). We even left in the part where the tonearm is knocked by a crowd member dancing their ass off. Why? Because the track is too f*%&ing good to leave out. Would you expect anything less from DTM? This partial set was recorded on 12/02/2006 at BANG!, Cincinnati's original all techno event.
Detroit kicked off the new year properly! Jeff Mills made a rare hometown appearance at Fifth Avenue in Detroit on Saturday Jan. 6th. 2007. The Fresh Corporation's Patrick Russell started off the evening with a great set peppered with Detroit & Chicago classics. Between sets Tansha Blackman aka
Buttersoulfly added some flavor to the night by reciting some poetry
for the crowd. Jeff stepped up to 3 decks and 2 CDJ's to start his set off with Promised Land by Joe Smooth. The words to that song rang true for all the Detroit heads in the house. His 4 hour set left the crowd chanting for more at the end of the night. The club obliged by giving him a 5 min encore before we all had to head home.
Detroit Techno Militia would like to send out special thanks to Spectacles and The Fresh Corporation for making this event possible.
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Brothers, sisters
One day we will be free
From fighting, violence
People crying in the street
When the angels from above
Fall down and spread their wings like doves
And we'll walk hand in hand
Sisters, brothers, we'll make it to the Promised Land
Detroit Techno Militia shirts are now available overseas! Tired of the long
shipping delays and the high shipping costs? Now our shirts are available
locally for the European consumer. We've had a bit of a shipping delay for some
of our shirts due to the holiday shipping season and some of our sizes going on
back order at the beginning of December. We've fulfilled all the back orders,
so now we'd like to direct you to the BEWOL
site for future European orders.
Thank you to all our customers all
around the world for your continued support! Many wishes for a happy and
healthy 2007!
-The DTM Crew
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Detroit Techno Militia is proud to present a new mix from Dan Lucas. This is a live mix recorded at Purity Control, a party hosted by Nocturnal Sounds at Corktown Tavern in Detroit.. Dan played along side Alan Oldham and Vidro (from Ultradyne). All the sets from the party are available on the Nocturnal Sounds website.
This file is 2 hours and 13 mins long (122 megs so it will take a while to download). Enjoy! Click Here to download the file
Partial Tracklist:
E Dancer – Velocity Funk (Stacey Pullen RMX) - KMS
Joel Mull -
Dynamite Voltage – Subvoice 18 (B2) – Subvoice
H – Productions
Marco Carola - - Kobyashi
Marco Bailey – Ideals – Session
Mould Impression
Dave Clarke
Marco Bailey – capture (Adam Beyer & Henrik B RMX) – MB Elektronics
Detroit Techno Militia is proud to present the first in a series of archived broadcasts of the show "Stick It In Your Ear". For 11 years "Magic" Mike Young and Alisa Ruffin hosted "Stick It In Your Ear" Friday nights on 90.9fm - WDTR. Over the years, several of Detroit's most prominent and influential artists filled their studio and the airwaves. Some of the artists that appeared in-studio include: Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson, Eddie Fowlkes, Alan Oldham, Alton Miller, Mike Grant, Niko Marks, Anthony "Shake" Shakir, Keith Tucker, Tom Tom, Black Tony, Scan7, Santiago Salazar, Invincible, Jeremy Ellis, Tony & Unsel Brown, Strand, Timmy Reggisford, Norm Talley, Mike Clark, Nicole 11:11, Dan Diamond, Reggie Dokes and many more! Each show gave it's listeners a chance to learn more about all genres of electronic music (with a heavy focus on Detroit...of course) and about the people that made it happen. Listeners were able to call in and give their shout-outs, ask questions and participate in on-air contests.
Magic Mike & Alisa always provided listeners with up-to-the-minute information on all the major electronic music events in our community including all of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, The Pontiac Techno House Festival and Techno Brings People Together. They've broadcast live from the Concert of Colors the three years that featured Carl Craig & Kevin Saunderson/Trance Global Underground and the Tom Tom Club.
In 2004, WDTR changed formats and their call letters to WRCJ. This is the reason why we've started sifting through piles of DAT's, mini-disks, CD-R's and tapes to ensure the knowledge they provided us continues on for the future generations. To preserve their historical nature, we are not editing out things like PSA, stations ID's, callers or commercials (many of which were produced by Detroit Public School students).
Show Facts:
Keith Tucker wrote the most current theme song for the show. The record is called "Stick It In Your Ear" and it is track A titled WDTR Vocals by Wanda Dixon.
This show was one of the last "Stick It In Your Ear" shows recorded in July, 2004. It features music by: Keith Tucker, Eddie Folwkes, Agent Sumo, Los Hermanos, Andre Loademann, Mrs. Wood and others. Track ID's are available during the show.
Now without further ado...
Ladies & Gentleman, Boys & Girls... Click here to download the first show in the series.
You must be a registered member to download this show and it will only be available for a short time. Click here to register.
Detroit History: Abdul Qadim Haqq
Detroit Techno Militia is proud to present another chapter in Detroit's techno history: Abdul Qadim Haqq. He has been serving the techno music community since 1989 and he is dedicated to Techno Visual Art. His artwork continues to inspire fans all over the world.
If you have ever bought an Underground Resistance record, a Red Planet one or been to the old Submerge building on Grand River and looked at the ceiling you know Abdul Qadim Haqq. For over 16 years, Haqq has contributed to the science fictive creeds of the Submerge crew, Juan Atkins, Derrick May and others by making visual worlds that are synonymous with the music. Characters such as The Illuminator or Firekeeper legends all have Haqq’s multimedia infusions. Each time he writes or colorizes one of the riddles to the multi-cultural electronic disbursements of funk the underground resists more junk talk about the mainstream having a chokehold on the world’s sound consciousness.
Haqq, (AKA the Ancient) spent a lot of time with television as a child and got his first ideas about other life from TV space cadets like the Star Trek family, Speed Racer cartoons and all sorts of fantasy. He did not know that he would draw from those days of channel blinking to literally illustrate what the tales of the Little Bighorn looks like remixed into Techno. After completing art school, he met Banks in ’91 and did his first project for him. He recalls having the same feelings about the sound then and now. “It [the music] always sounded like it was from beyond this world.” At the time UR was new but the music had already been living and Haqq knew this from his nights spent dancing at the Music Institute, which is burnt into the city’s history of computer dance jams. One day Derrick May skimmed some of his journal entries on Native American rituals and chose some of Haqq’s notes on the Lakotah for the backsleeve of his magnum opus, Rhythim is Rhythim’s “The Beginning”. That instance was just one of the increasing moments of Haqq’s eye and eye (third and physical) visions that are evenly building optical rapture.
Jacob Lawrence’s urban inspired hues flipped into almost fluorescent space people at a party are one way of describing Haqq’s new Submerge mural. However, the green dreadlocked man called “The Martian” definitely exhibits some Afro sci-fi reality. DJ Rolando’s key to the Aztec Mystic for the “Vibrations” CD contains more text from the Ancient. When asked how he picks and matches the otherworldly sounds to specific cultures, he explains: “The rhythms are tribal and Native Americans as well as African-Americans have healthy tribal histories.” His Islamic practices also inform the work because as he says, “Techno can be about realizing your fullest potential spiritually, the concepts work across the board.” The cover for Scott Groove’s, “Music in the City” is another piece from Haqq that melds his sight of cement verging on the fantastic approaching stuff farther than the stars.
Since ’98 he became the artist for most of UR’s productions. And working for others is one part of his mission as he develops more for art shows. Haqq’s role as the Ancient is a further affirmation of the fact that we do hear and see sound.
Intel Reports 
By Amy Hubbarth 
Track 1 - No Retreat No Surrender by 
Track 1 - Motor City Alibi by 
Our good friend Tiger at the ancient ruins of Bet Sh'ean - Israel.
A discussion on the UR forum prompted one of our members to digitize his Wizard mix collection. In all, he digitized 7 sets ranging in time from 13 - 50 minutes long. He also included 7 of his own tribute mixes to pay homage to the master. I would like to personally thank Needlz for taking the time to do this. We have been dying for new Wizard sets. Please keep in mind they were recorded from tape.
Detroit Techno Militia is proud to present a new mix from Dan Lucas. This is a live mix recorded at Purity Control, a party hosted by 
