How Detroit Techno Became an Unstoppable Global Phenomenon

Detroit techno documentary God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines is now streaming for free. We watch the doc and lament the fact that so many people still think techno is a European creation.  

In 1995, I had a radio show on KZSU, the station connected to Stanford University. From midnight to 3 am on Sunday nights (or Monday mornings, depending on your point of view), I played all manner of electronic music, from techno to IDM to jungle, usually finishing up with an hour of ambient. I called the show No UFOs after the Model 500 song because it was important to me as an American to highlight the fact that techno began in the States, and in Detroit specifically. The jury may still be out on whether “No UFOs” is indeed the first techno song (I think it is), but there’s no doubt about where the genre itself began: the Motor City...

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