Electro Detroit Sounds

Detroit Vibes of all Kinds

This is a mix by Andrea Kalajian for Visillusion Record Label

Visillusion Mix

To celebrate Soma’s electro sub label @avoidantrecords new vinyl release ‘Dark Planet’, we have invited new Avoidant artist, DJ Godfather!

Listen here: https://avoidant.fanlink.to/darkplanet

With techno originally hailed as The House Sound of Detroit - there’s no denying the motor city has its own definitive genre: Ghetto Tech. A true pioneer of the sound, DJ Godfather, like so many in Detroit was inspired by local radio - WJLB, The Electrifying Mojo and Jeff ‘The Wizard’ Mills - but for Brian Jeffries, aka DJ Godfather, it was scratch DJs, hip hop and DMC battles that kick-started his love for turntablism.

Playing house parties and teen clubs as a 15-year-old, DJ Godfather quickly learned how to keep a dancefloor hot - and having actually purchased The Wizards’ turntables from the man Jeff Mills himself, DJ Godfather honed his craft. At 17 he found himself playing downtown bars and gigs in the suburbs, before taking off to warehouse raves and illegal parties, like those at Detroit’s Packard Plant. 

An intimidating force behind the decks, he’s known to drop 60-to-70 records in a one hour DJ set, with plenty of flair, beat juggling and Detroit hustle in between. With his first solo record coming through the Twilight ‘76 label he set up in 1994, DJ Godfather would go on to establish the Databass imprint - still going strong with 150-plus releases - along with a specialised set of sub-labels including Juke Trax and D.E.T. Only.

For more than 25 years now DJ Godfather has been an advocate for ghetto tech at large, consistently drawing the biggest daytime crowd year-for-year at Detroit’s Movement Festival - uniting juke and jit dancers alike - while also exploring a myriad of genres like Miami bass, footwork, electro and more. Hooking up with the likes of Keith Tucker, Andrea Parker and DJs Deeon, Detroit Grand Pubahs and Fat Boy Slim over the years, it was only in 2020 that he saw the release of his 44 track debut solo album, Electro Beats For Freaks.

Following that up in 2021 with a 46-track second LP titled This Thing Of Ours, and the 2022 D3T.3L3CTR0 album - DJ Godfather never loses faith in how his music can bring different people and genres together. “To me ghetto tech is a culture; mixing techno, house, electro, and booty records to create one vibe,” he says. “I do ghetto tech records because it’s me. My one music that I’m passionate about. Love.”

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I want to thank from the bottom of my heart Underground Resistance for giving me the opportunity to make a new mix for their RADIO UR ! Much love and my deepest respect UR, as ever !!! 







ANDREW RED HAND - Radio UR Mix 2 ( Underground Resistance, Detroit 2014 )

Midnight Crawl

Each show I ask an electronic music producer to select some tracks that are important to them:

(1) Track/s that influenced their starting to make music 
(2) Track/s that have blown them away recently 
(3) Their favourite own production(s)

This week - Interview & Guest Selections from Andrew Red Hand, Romania

More info: https://soundcloud.com/andrewredhand and https://www.facebook.com/AndrewRedHand

Part 1: Interview and selections from Andrew Red Hand

Illektrolab & 4th Genome - Bass Agenda Intro
Erotek - Computer Aided Poetic Funk
Plural - Black Vision (Plural remix)
Andrew Red Hand - The Sweetest Soul
DJ Spade Tha Specialist - This Illuminati (Andrew Red Hand remix)
Andrew Red Hand - From Ecstasy To Agony
Soul Designer - The Soul Is Back
Andrew Red Hand - To Mom With Love
Model 500 - Night Drive
Andrew Red Hand - Space Encounter
Dopplereffekt - Tetrahymena
Underground Resistance - Final Frontier
Ultradyne - Life In The Nine Circles

Part 2 - guest mix from Andrew Red Hand

the other people place - sunrays
anthiliawaters - morning coffee
drexciya - aquatacizem
model 500 - I see the light
aux 88 - electro techno 
ur - deep space 9 
ur - electronic warfare 
ur - i am ur 
ur - kill my radio station 
drexciya - rubick's cube 
dopplerefekt - cellular phone  
dj surgeon - electro bass head 
andrew red hand - haze de-stress 


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Bass Agenda 86: ANDREW RED HAND Interview and Guest Mix

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"When DJing or making music, I try to go to a state where I can touch the edge of my subconsciousness and just feel, feel what I am thinking about or what moves me, and then explore that with sound. Kind of like a musical ouija board. 

I try not to consider genre, but more the monochromatic moody and potentially hypnotic nature of the music. 

I am trying to get you to forget time - to be totally within the moment and lose modern society's overly hectic and unnatural hurried view of time. To connect the listener back to eternity, a state of time where no time passes. 

To return to the source."

TRACKLIST

Never on Sunday - “The Journey”  (Retroactive)
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - “Fraledune” (Spectrum Spools)
Bernard Badie - “Time Reveals” (Night Club Records)
Idjut Boys - “Droid Two” (Droid)
Women of Povungnituk - “Inuit Throat Singing A11” (Canadian Music Heritage Collection)
Marco Shuttle - “Dontuwant” (Clone Store Only Series)
Kenny Glasgow - “Dance 2 Da House” (No.19 Music)
Jordan Zawideh - “Newton’s Sleep” (Kstarke Records)
Virgo - “In a Vision (808 State Edit)” (Harmless)
Auntie Flo - “Daabi” (Autonomous Africa)
Jody Finch - “Jack Your Big Booty” (Let’s Pet Puppies)
The Prince of Dance Music - “Let Your Body Ride” (City Limits)
Blake Baxter - “When A Thought Becomes U (BMG Edit)” (Underground Resistance)
Jungle Wonz - “Bird In A Gilded Cage” (Trax)
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - “The Bank Robbery (Lory D Edit)” (Subdance)
The Maghreban - “Amok Time” (Zoot)
Delta Funktionen ‎- “Sun Storm” (Delsin)
Alien Rain - “Alienated 5 B” (Alien Rain)
AFX - “Phase Acid” (Soundcloud demo)
Sandman - “Machines Like This” (Take The Elevator)
Expansives - “Life With You …. (The Fantasy Edit)” ( Leader Records) 

GhostlyCast #59: BMG - Return To The Source

Andrew Red Hand - The Grid Mix - Detroit Techno Militia (Episode 22), 2014
The mix I did for Detroit's legendary Detroit Techno Militia radio show named The Grid, Episode 22, in 2014 (re-uploaded here). Much respect !! 
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Andrew Red Hand - The Grid Mix - Detroit Techno Militia (Episode 22) 2014

UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE - MARK FLASH -  ONE LOVE MIX

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► Detroit's don papi back on our airwaves once again.

Omar S | BUDx Boiler Room DJ Set New Delhi

Brendan M Gillen is a founding member of Ectomorph and Interdimensional Transmissions. Brendan enjoys playing Ableton like a video game and making analog equipment growl like an acid motorcycle. His DJ sets combine studio production techniques with his lifelong obsession with Detroit radio mix shows to achieve a truly psychedelic deep listening post-Music Institute post-Music Box post-Music Aquarium experience. 
http://interdimensionaltransmissions.com/artists/bmg

BMG - Live at Honey Soundsystem [9-16-12]

Underground Resistance is probably the most important Detroit record label since Motown: their sound and attitude emerged in the early '90s as the most uncompromising one from the Motorcity, it was pivotal in shaping US and European Techno, started the resurgence of 90's Electro, but most of all indelebly marked the consciousness of thousands of people around the world who share their messages of resistance and hope.
And last but not least, they did so many amazing records!

So, 30 years has passed since UR-001 came out in 1990.
Since UR and 'Mad' Mike Banks were so influential for me, not just sonically but mostly on the attitude side of things, I decided to go thru all my 12"s and make a retrospective tribute mix to celebrate this anniversary.

At first I wanted to pick 30 tracks only and keep it compact but so many great ones were left out.. so I just started and at the end I used 60+ tracks! Almost all the classics are there, plus a fair share of lesser known tunes which really shine as well in my opinion. All from the UR catalogue only. No Z-tracks unfortunately :)

I really hope to have done justice to their sound, and I hope as well that the listeners will enjoy the ride, have the chance to discover some amazing music, and maybe feel the energy and pride and love that Mike Banks and the UR crew put into the music and pressed into the grooves.

In memory of James Stinson, Ron Murphy, Aaron-Carl Ragland
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30 years of Underground Resistance – Tribute Mix by Andrea Passenger

UR-001 – UR w/ Yolanda‎ – Your Time Is Up
UR-007 – UR – Living for the Night – The Feeling
UR-004 – UR – Beauty Of Decay
UR-013.5 – X-101 – Sonic Destroyer
UR-005 – UR – Nation 2 Nation
UR-020 – UR – Jupiter Jazz
UR-010 – UR – Riot
UR-024 – UR – Twista (The Dance)
UR-014 – Drexciya – Sea Snake
UR-029 – UR – Acid Africa (Roots Electric Mix)
UR-003 – UR – The Final Frontier
UR-030 – Drexciya – Wavejumper
UR-040 – The Hostile ‎- Ambush
UR-042 – UR – Hi Tech Funk (Sonic Grits Mix)
UR-029 – UR – Atomic Witchdokta
UR-015 – Mad Mike And DJ Rolando The Aztec Mystic – Aztlan
UR-059 – The Aztec Mystic ‎– Aguila
UR-020 – UR – Amazon (UR Meets 4 Hero Mix)
UR-2001 – UR – Timeline
UR-038 – UR – Codebreaker A1
UR-044 – UR – Hardlife
UR-079 – UR – GoodTime
UR-042 – UR – First Galactic Baptist Church
UR-3000 – UR – Transition
UR-045 – Gerald Mitchell – Soulsaver
UR-049 – The Aztec Mystic A.K.A DJ Rolando – Jaguar
UR-028 – Galaxy 2 Galaxy – Hi Tech Jazz (Live Version)
UR-080 – DJ John Collins ‎- Yeah
UR-090 – Mark Flash – King Of Light
UR-027 – Scan7 – System Work
UR-032 – Andre Holland – Inversions
UR-037 – Drexciya ‎– You Don't Know
UR-039 – The Infiltrator – They Will Never Know
UR-033 – UR – The Illuminator
UR-026 – Drexciya – Bubble Metropolis
UR-025 – Galaxy 2 Galaxy – Journey Of The Dragons
UR-052 – Timeline – Journey Of The Dragons (Time Sensitive)
UR-2005 – UR – Attack Of The Sonic Samurai (The Battle Within)
UR-072 – UR – I Am UR
UR-071 – Mad Mike – Hi-Tech Dreams
UR-088 – Vintage Future – Dookie Machine
UR-045 – Chaos A.K.A. Marc Floyd – Afrogermanic
UR-045 – The Aztec Mystic A.K.A. DJ Rolando – Mi Raza
UR-043 – Chaos – The Safety Is Off
UR-047 – Vintage Future – Antimatter Premium Unleaded
UR-031 – Dark Energy – Black Strategy (DJ Dex Edit)
NSC-3 – UR – UR046
UR-048 – Remote – The Swarm
UR-058 – UR – Actuator
UR-040 – UR – Analog Assassin
UR-076 – Bileebob – Sunshine
UR7-055 – UR‎ – Soul Power!
UR-078 – DJ Mark Flash ‎– Sao Paulo
UR-085 – Timeline Feat. Jon Dixon & De'Sean Jones – Black Bottom Stomp
UR-054 – Perception & Mad Mike – Windchime
UR-025 – UR – Metamorphosis
UR-034 – UR – Electronic Warfare (Drexciya Electric Eel Mix)
UR-005 – UR – 303 Sunset
UR-008 – UR – The Theory
UR-004 – UR – Quadrasonic
UR-084 – Alone – Has God Left This City? 7601 12th Street
UR-085 – Timeline – Ghosts Of Graystone
UR-087 – Timeline – The Conscious Dream
UR-054 – Perception – Abandoned Building In Mono

1990-2020: 30 Years Of Underground Resistance - Tribute Mix

A Story Teller with every set taking you on an intimate  journey, inviting you in her world of house and techno worship, with  soft melodies to harder pushes that keep you wanting more.   She plays a range of music, anything from deep house to techno, and her sets are crafted to fit the perfect vibe of the moment, always taking into careful consideration location and time of day.  

Andrea always had love for music. As a child she played the piano for years, and played the clarinet in school band. She ended up going to college for art, but she always painted with music in the background. Years later, she began to learn the art of DJing at a time when she felt uninspired to paint. She wanted to express her ideas and creativity, so she has decided to channel her creative energy through a different medium, music.  She quickly became obsessed, always digging, mixing and working on music related projects almost everyday.  Her determination and persistence has landed her gigs, playing at various venues around Detroit, such as Tangent Gallery and Dequindre Cut, as well as a residency at The High Dive, Hamtramck.   Follow her on Instagram (@andrea.kalajian) and Facebook, and stay updated on upcoming events!



