Sounds of MEMCO: Vol. 3 is our third installment of our compilation series, featuring 11 genre-spanning original tracks from 11 different artists. 

Proceeds from our Bandcamp sales will be donated to the Ruth Ellis Center in Detroit. Check them out here: https://www.ruthelliscenter.org

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Sounds of MEMCO: Vol. 3

Featured Artists: 
Koray Benli: https://soundcloud.com/koray-benli
Miguel Cisneros: https://soundcloud.com/miguelcisne
Mark Kachkaev/escapiiism333: https://soundcloud.com/escapiiism
Nathan Price: https://soundcloud.com/captian_price
Owen Blanchard: https://soundcloud.com/amperedubs

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Exposure mix 35 created by AUNTI. Slip into something darker with this moody techno set. Get ready to Thrash.

Exposure Mix 035 - Aunti

From DJ Earthsquirm: a collection of tracks in homage to nostalgia, references, and current favorites curated for general viewing. Footwork, jungle, and everything in between, please sit back and kindly “squirm like a worm.”
TRACK LIST:
ATSUO - A1
Tom and Jerry Maximum Style - (Nasty Jungle Remix)
Dance Conspiracy - Dub War (Chapter Three)
Makoto - Golden Girl feat. MC Conrad (Lenzman VIP)
DJ Earl - ionogettired
DJ DVD RIP - itsalloverme
DJ Tameil - Throw some d’s (Jean Nipon refix)
CRZKNY - Rain Fwk
Jana Rush - Old Skool
DJ Manny - Babyplease
NRG - Helpless
DJ DEEON - KUROKIN PUSH
NEURON - HONEY SYSTEM
Knifehandchop - I’m Sorry Miss Pollard
サイケアウツG - 8
Casper McFadden - dancecore
Golden Boy - Queen of the Cyber Donk
TORIENA - Kick it
Stratton - Getting’ Out Unhappy Hardcore Mix
Dev79 - Are you ready?
Machine Girl - Cyan Hardcore
Dee Jay Nehpets - Razzberry House
DJ Paypal - Fire
DJ Rashad - What That Neck Do
Frenesi - 覆面調査員
$LUDGEHAMMER - MAGNOLIA BOUNCY VALENTINE!!! RIP MAGNOLIA SHORTY (BONUS TRACK)

Exposure Mix 036 - DJ Earthsquirm

Exposure Mix 040 - zagc

Some of Ownee's favorite mellow tracks inspired by her dreamy meditative aesthetic

Exposure Mix 044 - DJ OWNEE

Come and listen to Agnes’s exposure mixxxx. She’s bringing us "deep disco, funk, and jazz cuts guaranteed to get you moving". We’ve checked it out and it’s an absolute hit, if you need some good vibes tune in! 💜🫶😚

Exposure Mix 049: Space Age Bachelorette Pad

Naphtha takes us on a journey of ambient, subtle, and beautiful sounds. You’ll feel all the emotions of this mix of existential and calming sounds. You have to listen, it’s one of the most beautiful mixes yet 💛

Exposure Mix 054: Naphtha

Check out Sultana’s thrilling and bumping ass mix! Sultana is known for her insane song compilations that make every party turn tf up! She describes her mix with bringing us eclectic experimental club featuring MIA, arca, azealia banks, and zagc - amazing combo of artists. Absolute talent and heat in this set!

Exposure Mix 055 - Sultana

Notorious Virgo BUBU just dropped the mix of the century. Buckle up for banger after banger. “It’s fucking techno or whatever. Either you rock or you don’t” - BUBU 🗣🗣

Exposure Mix 058 - BUBU

M-Achina visits the outer corners of TECHNO. An hour of dance floor teleportation as the DJ blends acid, psytrance, and grimy sounds from around the world 🪐🛸

Exposure Mix 060 - M-Achina

Check out this upbeat and groovy mix by Lovepark ❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥 Lovepark brings all the heat of a summer music festival right to you! This set features some of his original tracks and some epic electropop. LISTEN NOW!

Exposure Mix 062 - Lovepark

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND LISTEN TO MEREKAT’S MIX! It is FAST, it is HIGH ENERGY, it is MUSIC FOR DANCING IN YOUR ROOM🫧🤸🏻‍♀️🫧This delicious mix will make you MOVE MOVE MOVE. It’s a BLESSING for your Tuesday and NOURISHMENT for your ears 🎧🫐🔊

Exposure Mix 063 - MEREKAT

Fantishow - Ethniogenics

Connor Fischetti - Darkest Lights

otherseas - Melter 3

AJ - Lay Low

space age bachelorette pad - AJ002

dj art - Lights Out And Away

YΛO - Pharrell Said

Felix Lahann - Lost

price - sbahn1-altmix

sockbite - GP-115

DJ LOW PONY on the TRACKS! She is bringing you an eclectic, dynamic, and gahhhdamn enigmatic mix! Low Pony takes you on a journey that is only on the fast and exciting incline, you’ll never guess what song comes next - A VISIONARY 🙌. Once you start listening you won’t be able to stop. 💚🦎🍏

Exposure Mix 064 - Low Pony

HAPPY HOLIDAAYYYY SEASON BABY! 🎁 🎁  We have a bold, fruitful, and tasty mix by the (very mysterious) CHRISTMAS! 🎄CHRISTMAS got off of their SLEIGH (SLAY) to record this very very special track for you. It’s 50 % techno, 50 % ambient, and 100% EPIC… Tune in to be moved by the holiday spirit and transported to a bunker in the North Pole…

Exposure Mix 065 - CHRISTMAS

DJ TERMINUS is bringing you one of the fastest mixes YET! This mix feels like drinking a Red Bull at midnight 🔋🔋 From the words of TERMINUS, this is “Hardcore Powered Destruction: a blend of Hard Techno, Drum n’ Bass, Hardcore and Donk”. DON’T MISS OUT! 🔨

Exposure Mix 066 - TERMINUS

YOOO we got DJ NOLAN WAYNE coming at you. A new DJ in town he’s got some heat for you. It’s groovy, it’s techno, it’s legit. This is a track you have to listen to, perfect for anytime of the day. It’s beauty to the ears and soul…can’t stop listening.

Exposure Mix 067 - NOLAN WAYNE

This track is IT! It's got all those repetitive noises that itches the right part of your brain. Oblongata is bringing us pizazz and pure authentic deep techno. Highly recommend if you're trying to get lost in a trance (trance of dance)

Exposure Mix 068 - oblongata

We gotta exposure mix for youuuu - DJ Cheesecake🧀🍰. He’s giving you a mix of it all, it’s versatile, it’s adaptable, it’s a good vibe! Perfect for grooving and nicely vibing

Exposure Mix 069 - Dj Cheesecake

Brought to Ann Arbor through an unprecedented collaboration between student groups, Michigan Electronic Music Collective and 48 Frames in partnership with God Said Give 'Em Drum Machines, a trifecta of events encompassing visual, audible, and interpersonal storytelling explored the legendary and underrepresented history of Techno as a Black, Detroit-born art form and social movement. 

This panel discussion and Q+A session featured Detroit legends Stacey "Hotwaxx" Hale, John "Jammin" Collins, Delano Smith, DJ Etta, and Eric Jackson in conversation at the Ann Arbor District Library on March 22nd, 2024.

MEMCO + GSGEDM + 48 Frames: Trifecta Panel

This track is FAST AF! It’s silly, it’s techno, it’s eurobeat, it’s 2000s y2k rave. If you’re sleep WAKE TF UP! Because this one will having you bouncing off the walls - genuinely. Take a listen, as always you won’t regret. Thank you VESFACE for the heat today 🙏

Exposure Mix 070 - VESFACE

Bringing you the the glitz and the the glam the the jingly and the the jangly.
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For furtive eyes only.

Exposure Mix 008 - Jack Withers

This past February, MEMCO and WCBN organized a Black History Month Symposium featuring a panel of three prolific Detroit-based producers, DJs, and activists. During the conversation, each panelist used their own experience to contextualize the emergence of Detroit techno, the music’s DIY ethos, and the ways in which the music inspires their work today. Introductory comments by MEMCO co-president Jordan Stanton ('19-'20).

Learn more about each artist below:

“Mad” Mike Banks
Mike Banks is a Detroit-based DJ, producer, and founding member of the Underground Resistance (UR). He currently lives in Detroit, Michigan and is a former studio musician, having played with Parliament/Funkadelic among others. He worked in the second half of the 1980s with the collective Members of the House, releasing several 12" singles. In the late '80s he and Jeff Mills formed UR as an uncompromising, independent outlet for music imbued with a critical edge and an often futurist outlook. Together with Mills, Banks built UR into an internationally recognized and respected name. He is also the owner of Submerge Distribution, an independent record label which distributes Detroit-based techno worldwide.

Stacey “Hotwaxx” Hale
Stacey “Hotwaxx” is a DJ and producer who has been deeply embedded in Detroit’s dance scene since 1989. She was a mainstay on the radio stations in the mid to late 80s, including WLBS, WHYT, WDRQ and WJLB, and won the Motor City Mix contest 10k prize. Stacey has been featured on numerous Internet radio shows and is currently featured on www.deepspaceradio.com. She currently teaches and designs DJ & production classes with Spin Inc, Girls Rock Detroit (GRD) camp, Give A Beat, Seraphine Collective, and Detroit Students of the Arts (DSA). Hotwaxx also formed a live music group, Nyumba Muziki, which has performed at the Charles H Wright Museum of African American History, and for the Detroit 300 Conservancy.

Ron Johnson (DJ Jungle 313)
Ron is a native Detroit DJ and educator who recognized a vital need to fill the creative gaps left by the public-school system’s abandonment of an arts curricula. He is committed to empowering disadvantaged youth and at-risk communities with music that inspires. He is the executive director of Spin Inc, a 501(c)(3) organization providing DJ and Music production education for young adults in Detroit. He is also a core organizer of the annual Detroit Electronic Music Camp (DEMC) that takes place during Movement.

(Source: Resident Advisor and Wikipedia)

Graphic design by Jamie Johnson
Audio capture by Cat Marchenko and Kinsey Harvey
Edited by Jordan Stanton

Funded in part by Arts at Michigan and The Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives

Detroit Techno & Resistance: A Black History Month Symposium

the mysterious, dark, mournful sounds of one of the biggest unorthodox hitmakers of 2020; flipped, stretched, interpreted, brought into the new year by only the saddest producers of ur favorite student DJ collective, MEMCO.

from the hardest tech to the softest house to the most thoughtful touch 
the producers behind it all:
@loamsy
@dslrdj
@thndermusic
@escapiiism
@koray-benli
@parigimusic
@akshaychacko

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Michigan Electronic Music Collective

MEMCO is a group of DJs, producers, and event-goers that provides a platform for electronic music in the Ann Arbor area. Every month, MEMCO hosts “Impulse” parties at an Ann Arbor venue that feature student DJs and professional guests. Along with proceeds often being used for fundraising efforts for local organizations, Impulse parties provide a safe, inclusive space for attendees and performers to enjoy a range of electronic music.

MEMCO also runs ongoing DJ and music production workshops, empowering members to use club-standard equipment and industry-standard software. In these ways, MEMCO maintains its tradition of teaching and learning, building a warm community of DJs, producers, dancers, and friends in the Ann Arbor area.

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