Part Of: Détroit EP
Catalog: MM06
Release Date: 07.05.21
Buy Link: https://snd.click/KageTaho

Brian Kage
SoundCloud | https://soundcloud.com/kage

Taho
SoundCloud | https://soundcloud.com/taho

Michigander Music 
SoundCloud | https://soundcloud.com/michigandermusic
Bandcamp | https://michigandermusic.bandcamp.com/

Release Text:
Six releases in and Michigander label head Brian Kage teams up with the legendary French Techno producer, Taho, aka David Jacopin. The electronic music world knows to put respect on the Motor City, but the "Détroit EP" represents a fusion, emphasizing l’accent aigu — not a typo or spec on your screen that needs cleaning. Between Kage and Taho, their production pedigree includes releases for labels like FXHE, Planet-E, Delsin, F.Comm, and more, so it's no surprise the pairing makes for a masterfully produced EP covering the spectrum of Detroit house and techno sounds, with an added deft touch from its French connection.

"D-Twah," the D's first pronunciation, opens with classic Detroit house energy featuring all the modern accoutrements. Distant chatter between solar systems gives way to a springy bass line that sets off an interplanetary party starter with uplifting piano chord progressions and just a touch of scattered cosmic disco effects. Angelic synth choirs and arpeggiated lines introduce short breakdowns before all systems fire back up. This one is surefire fuel for the discothèque.

"La Belle Vie" picks things up with playful hand percussion, a driving guttural bass, and heavy Detroit techno stabs, reminiscent of its title in translation, one of techno's greatest hits a la Inner City. Beautiful strings sneak in building tension and drama before a piano releases any pent up energy through the stratosphere. It begs to bring on the underground warehouses or Movement festival stages again.

Entering electro terrain, "Tour De Troit" encapsulates Detroit's earliest robotic impulses, starting with inimitable, snappy 808 drums, which are pedaled over with deep pads and a revolving acid bassline. It drifts off into dreamy territory with smooth, jazzy synth waves before funky keys coolly cut through the haze. Whether early in the night or afterhours, breakers are always prepared to slide across the floor for this sound.

"Acid Renaissance" offers a clear epilogue to this journey with its cinematic and orchestral symphony. These emotive elements tower over electric undercurrents that complete an ending fit for having stumbled upon some epic space age discovery. At a time when NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover just provided the first audio recording of the Red Planet, this could very well have been the film score to that mission.

If Detroit's electronic music history is seen as a time capsule, Brian Kage and Taho have opened it, rearranged its parts to fit their mutual influences, and sealed it back together with a project worthy of future explorations.

Words by Austen Van Der Bleek. 

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Berlin House Music
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Premiere: Brian Kage & Taho - D-Twah [Michigander Music]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Soul Mekanik Mix.

Who else sounds like Larry Heard? In the late 1980s, The Chicago house producer was one of the first artists – initially as a part of Fingers, Inc., and then as a solo act – to truly stamp their own unique aesthetic onto the nascent style of electronic dance music. Favouring lush instrumentation, foggy chords and dreamy melodies over the more mechanic pounding of many of his counterparts, he inspired the "deeper" sounds of the midwest's second wave, and generations of young clubbers elsewhere around the world. 

This In Focus features close to 3 hours of untouchable deep house beauty from Larry Heard - compiled, mixed and edited by [Giles Smith.](https://www.nts.live/shows/giles-smith)

In Focus - Larry Heard

For the fifth Chronology Mix, we have the one and only Terry Francis (and some mix it is!!)
Terry is one of our favourite DJs as well as being a good friend.
He has wowed us again and again at the Chronology nights and long may it continue!!
Catch Terry playing there next, March 2nd B2B with Jake Beautyman 
Not to be missed!!

Terry Francis - Chronology Mix 05

An exquisite blend of deep, sunshine grooves to commemorate a summer that never quite arrived. 😎🌞

Lost Summer

Oro - Stop The War (Bonedisco edit)

Disco Tech

'80s style Extended Remix, made during lockdown Jan-Mar 2021.

(Ozone 9 was used to extract additional vocals and many other elements for this fan mix : acknowledgement to iZotope)

Artwork from Burning Shed (please message to receive full credit on this page)

Disco Tech

Jay Chappell