“Uncompromising” is the best adjective to describe Detroit techno and the people who laid the scene’s groundwork. If house is a feeling, techno is an idea, or perhaps a DIY ethos, made in Detroit ...

A light tinkling bell sounds in Kompakt's offices, announcing lunchtime. The workers murmur happily as they file up to a spread of spaghetti and sun-dried tomatoes with a faintly boozy fresh fruit ...

Sometimes the cover art on a record captures the mood of the musical proceedings perfectly. Back photo: plaid bermudas and glow-in-the-dark argyle socks looming over a pair florescent multi-colored ...

Techno has always been a futuristic genre, but it didn’t emerge from a vacuum. Prior to the formal founding of the sound in mid-’80s Detroit, artists in disparate places were making music that could ...

Tassilo Ippenberger and Thomas Benedix AKA internationally renowned techno twosome, Pan-Pot have set a high standard for current and emerging contemporary techno acts. Leading by example on the global ...

Many techno DJs are used to playing music on vinyl, but creating it? That's another matter. However, Graham Dunning has found a wonderfully strange way to make that idea work. His Mechanical Techno ...