LITM Extra - No UNESCO: Detroit Techno [excerpt]

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture

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Earlier this month UNESCO added Berlin techno to its List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, a register to recoginize and safeguard important traditions, practices and expressions. This news was met with consternation from music fans over how this honour completely overlooked the birthplace of techno, Detroit. For this patrons-only episode, Jeremy and Tim react to the news by pulling out a dozen or so of their favourite Detroit techno cuts to discuss.

We hear about the ‘Belville Three’, post-Fordism, Alvin Tofler and the relationship between Chicago and Motor City. The guys dwell on the aesthetic of coldness and futurity that characterised much of the Detroit sound, folding in the Panthers, jazz and unidentified flying objects into records from Underground Resistance, Carl Craig, Drexciya and Theo Parish. Plus, we hear one of the first records Jeremy ever bought, memories of squat parties past, and a de rigour David Mancuso cameo.

Tracklist:
Model 500 - No UFOs
Rhythim Is Rhythim - It Is What It Is
R-Tyme - R-Theme
Underground Resistance - The Theory
The Martian - Star Dancer
K-Hand - Starz
Innerzone Orchestra - Eruption
Innerzone Orchestra - Bug in the Bass Bin
The Aztec Mystic - Jaguar
Drexciya - Birth Of New Life
Carl Craig & Pepe Braddock - Angola (Carl Craig Mix)
Theo Parish - Falling Up
Innerzone Orchestra - People Make the World Go 'Round