There is an MC named S.U.N. (Scientific Universal Noncommercial) from Ypsilanti which is not too far from Detroit, he makes some really nice conscious underground hiphop. I produce techno but I play live keyboards with SUN sometimes, we have a show in June at the Blind Pig that I will be coming out from Chicago to do. I have never produced any tracks with SUN but we are talking about it, I am pretty interested in trying to make a more techy or electro sounding hiphop track and seeing how it comes out.
So does this count as a techno/hiphop/Detroit connection? Ypsilanti is not quite Detroit, and I never lived in Detroit but I lived in Ferndale at Nine Mile. /dave ---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: Re: (313) Detroit Hip Hop and Techno Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 18:17:13 +0000 From: "jurren baars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Andrew Hodgson wrote: >I got to thinkin'...is there any links between the techno scene in Detroit >and the hiphop scene? Been listening to Jaydee loads lately, and I'm sure I >heard a reference to techno in one of his tracks (NOT slagging it off >either, like Eminem) and his track 'Big Booty Express' (off the Welcome to >Detroit LP on BBE) seems like a homage to Kraftwerk and techno...? here are a couple of links i can think of: UR and hipnotech; hipnotech is a label that's released a couple of [so far 7?] 12"s with instrumental hiphop. they're supported by UR. shake; anthony shakir does[did?] production for several detroit hiphop acts, and often produces hiphop himself. that hiphop compilation on sublime; featuring tracks by shake, dan bell, robert hood and more detroit techno producers. in that same veign: a couple of songs that came out through intuit-solar; that dan bell hiphop track on the first intuit-solar 12" is so good! antidote; planet e side-label, 4? releases so far, featuring lacksydaisycal, dwele, slum village and more. dwele; featuring both on recloose's 'i can't take it' and several slum village tracks, and soon his own album. dabrye; produces hiphop as dabrye, and house/techno as ... [rob theakston can probably provide with more info on this artist] slum village 'S.O.U.L.'; from the album 'trinity' samples, or uses the same sample as 'sharivari' if i'm not mistaken channel one 'technicolor'; was sampled for a hiphop track by sir mix-a-lot. collaboration between carl craig and kariem riggins for the detroit experiment. that's all i can come up with for now, but there are probably a couple more links. jurren _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
