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Putting the Detroit in Detroit techno.
You can't tell the full story of Detroit techno without Eddie Fowlkes. DJing in the city since the early '80s—sometimes with external effects, drum machines and three decks—Fowlkes helped inspire and shape one of the most important black artforms of the 20th century. Despite the dominant narrative of the Belleville Three, which attributes the music's origins to three artists and a suburb 30 miles outside the city centre, Fowlkes has made a point of telling the history as he sees it, which we hear this week in full on the fourth episode of Ash Lauryn's Underground & Black series of podcasts.
While the history is important to Fowlkes, his output has barely let up in the decades since those pioneering years, especially after the emergence of his "Detroit techno soul" sound in the early '90s. Currently, he's on the cusp of releasing an album with Jeff Mills and Jessica Care Moore as The Beneficiaries, The Crystal City Is Alive, and recently rebooted his City Boy Music label, the imprint he founded in 1993.
Photo credit: Marie Staggat
Tracklist /
Eddie Fowlkes - That's What I Think About
Eddie Fowlkes - Soul Train
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