Celebrate Detroit Techno

This year Moog went to Movement Electronic Music Festival to celebrate Detroit and had the opportunity to speak with 3 Detroit techno innovators. Watch Carl Craig, Mike Huckaby, and Kyle Hall talk about the beginnings of Detroit techno, the influence their beloved city had on the music, and how the Minimoog affected their sonic landscape.

Music courtesy of Mike Huckaby.

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These three DJs, plus Juan Atkins, the originator or Techno, lent their talent to Moog to create the Movement pack, free downloadable presets for Animoog.

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[MoogSynthesizers]

Mike Huckaby provided the background music.

[vineflower]

Superb! Never heard of Detroit techno before. but sounds fantastic!

[detrt]

The background music is Mike Huckaby's The Deep House World on Third Ear Recordings. Available at all digital download music stores, such as iTunes, Beatport, Junodownload, eMusic, Amazon.

[nickpelkey]

Nice nod to Visage.. how else would I hear about such a thing in Maine?! Glad that they did a service by talking about analog synthesis and early influences.

[fimpson]

That voyager looks fantastic sitting there. Also, great video! Very interesting. Always loved detroit tech but never knew a thing about it.

[Blingmusic]

Thanks for this. Really great to hear a black experience regarding this genre. Viva Detroit!

[detrt]

the background music is 'The Deep House World' by Mike Huckaby. Available on Third Ear Recordings at iTunes, Beatport, eMusic, all digital stores.

[ClemensNeufeld]

great artists - love moog - and love marantz classic audio radio receivers :-)

[senarodrigo]

Techno was born in Detroit actually! It was different than whan we hear today though

[MaDeuce]

They should have mentioned Sun Ra using the Moog

[Undermatic]

Mike Huckaby - The Deep House World ;)

[Tazmanian_Ninja]

To me, detroit techno has sounded the same, for at least 15 years. Where's the creativity they always talk about?

Or maybe I'm just deaf to how those same chords and same drum sounds evolve... ?

It's "all gone Jeff Mills and Derrick May" many years ago.