The first track does that by evoking the spirit and message of one of the great orators of American history, Malcolm X. This album seeks to look at various sounds and colors within American society and bring them to life in a traditional jazz setting. What’s the meaning of the title of the CD, Familiar Colors? Have you heard any covers of “Scarborough Fair” that add swing and unusual colors? Another tasty morsel Stern gets right. The bass solo is strong and full, and drums add a lacy complement. Another seemingly instant classic (he has this knack) is “Wonderful” with its honeyed trumpet and heady vibe. “To Light the Way” has the feel of a familiar love anthem where affection once grasped is now warmly remembered. Pianist/leader Eric Stern’s new CD Familiar Colors has tracks that are smart and cool, pulling emotions from the ether that hit deep. It mixes Chicago ghetto house with electro, techno and hip-hop.A new CD radiates with rich chords and subtly resolving dissonances that paint a living, breathing musical portrait of how great music should feel. Other names for it include Detroit bass and booty bass. Ghettotech is a fast, raunchy music pioneered in Detroit in the mid '90s. When we listened to a record we listened to it two ways: 45 pitched down and 33 pitched up.īRIAN GILLESPIE performs as DJ Starski, one half of the Detroit ghettotech outfit, Starski and Clutch. You should be thanking us because we broke records in Detroit. That is not how the record is made." But see those 20 DJs in here? They are buying your record off your label, and they are going to play it at 45. I remember Derrick May once came in and was like, "Hey, what are you doing? You're playing that too fast. When you pitched it up faster, it became a dope jit/ footwork record. If you were a Detroit ghetto guy, a hood DJ, you would take that record and flip that record, playing it at 45 and bring it down minus 8. Harris was an activist at the University of Michigan and was impressed by the marriage of politics and dance music put forth by UR founder "Mad" Mike Banks.Ĭarl Craig made a really good record under the name Psyche. That was where a lot of folks heard techno who weren't in Detroit proper or, like me, who were too young to be able to go to the parties.ĬORNELIUS HARRIS is label manager at Submerge and Underground Resistance (UR), a hub for fiercely independent techno run out of a bustling compound in East Detroit. I heard it from the radio as a kid, and on television there was a dance show that used to come on called The Scene. I think that that's what gets missed - the fact that techno actually served to be a very inspiring aspect of Detroit life, for the whole region actually. We're trying to find a place where we can do what we want to do and not be tied into other crap. Today, he's one half of the experimental techno group Ectomorph, manager of the record label Interdimensional Transmissions and a walking encyclopedia of Detroit techno trivia.ĭerrick May comes up with "Strings of Life" and, you know, it's not called "Strings of Death." It's all about this great future that we're a part of it's about looking for something else.
Most people say this is the first record of Detroit techno.īRENDAN GILLEN fell in love with Detroit techno while attending college in nearby Ann Arbor. The DJ would play these records and instead of "Holly, Dolly," it would go "Holly, Holly, Dolly, Dolly." That's how they got to "Share, Vari, Share Share, Vari Vari." That's them imitating what the DJ did. The DJ was doing it with the Italo Disco record, " Holly Dolly" by Kano.
So the story goes that they went to this party and the DJ was doing the trick of playing with two copies of the same record at once. There were a bunch of groups and Charivari was the name of one these groups, and that's where the band got the name of this tune. They tried to make the parties seem elite, so they had elite names like "Gables," which was complete with a Clark Gables logo. It was one of these backyard parties where somebody was lucky enough to have a pool. The guys who did "Sharevari" told me an anecdote about going to a party in 1980 in Detroit, a high-school party.
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