In 2023  Blkout Wall Festivals  artist  Muralmatics  created  Hotwaxx Mural
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For as long as there is music and those who faithfully dance, there  will always be a need for the Godmother of House Music, DJ Stacey “Hotwaxx” Hale. Detroit’s 1st female of house music plays dance floor bangers and orchestral melodies with live music fusions. Hotwaxx Hale has made a massive impact in American music culture, whether it’s playing in famous theaters like the Apollo New York and the Fox Detroit, or legendary underground dance music clubs like  ‘Studio 54,’ and ‘The Warehouse. Currently she holds residence at Spotlite Detroit, & Marble Bar Detroit.  She also has an international presence, which includes performances in London, Ibiza, France, Mexico, Berlin, Amsterdam, Toronto, and across the USA.   

 Hotwaxx Hale is the1st female DJ who played house music on the  radio in Detroit in the late 80s, and continues as a DJ to play a major role in curating the  soundtrack of our lives for several decades. Thriving in the city that started techno, she  somehow maintains a perfect flow by tastefully blending house and techno with funk,  hip hop and Motown soul, which is why she continues to have a diverse, multi-aged  devoted following.  Not only has she been resident DJ for several famous Motown radio stations, but she  also beat over 600 DJs in the Motor City Mix contest winning $10,000. She also has residents at two clubs in Detroit @ Spotlite Detroit as Housecats w/ Jenny LaFemme, and Panorama Berlin.  Hotwaxx  currently produces & hosts three radio shows. Twisted Tuesdays at 12n  Deepspaceradio.com EST. Every 3rd Friday a virtual show on Twitch & Mixcloud simultaneously thru Technoclub-net 4pm EST .  She is one of the leaders in a daily broadcast on Blast Radio/Hotwaxx.  Hotwaxx’s passion for music spills over into education for the youth and adults as well.  

Since the inception of  Girls Rock Detroit, Hotwaxx has been the DJ instructor helping young girls & non-binary find their way through mentorship and music.  
In 2023 she accepted the position as GRDs Co-Director for the next 2 years.

2024 Hotwaxx will led a virtual classroom for the Underground Music Academy (UMA)

 Hotwaxx is the Virtual & Hybrid Director Specialist for Streamteamio with various organizations worldwide.  Hotwaxx has also formed a live music group, Nyumba Muziki, which has performed at  the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit Opera House,  Detroit 300 Conservancy and more. 

Music Coordinator/DJ with  Jessica Care Moore’s Daughters of Betty (Black Women Rock Orchestra).   Hotwaxx has incredible production skills and has collaborated with artists like Eddie  Fowlkes, Alton Miller, Kevin Saunderson, Marissa Guzman, Norma Jean Bell,  Pirahnahead, K Hand, Diviniti Roxx, Candy J, Geri Free and Hazmat Live

Stacey is the creator and coordinator for  Sheometry Arts and Music Festival   launched in Detroit August 2019 returned in July 2024.  

Inducted into the  National  Museum of African American Music in 2019  Nashville TN.

Check out tracks on Bandcamp

The Godmother of House continues to  leave her mark and the best is yet to come. 

DOCUMENTARIES & DATA: Girls Gone Vinyl   Women In Hip Hop  High-Tech Soul  Detroit Sound Project  

Black To Techno  313LOVE, DCYPHERED  DIA

FESTIVALS & AFFILIATES
Movement
Sheometry
Sonar
DEMF
Motor City Pride,
Dally in the Alley, 
Charivari, 
Tec-Troit, 
BMFA
The Backpack Music Festival, 
African World Festival,
Allied Media Conference
We Found Hip Hop (Women in Hip Hop)
Black Women Rock
Girls Rock Detroit
MOCAD, 
The Opera House, BRAVO BRAVO
IBIZA: Zoo Project
CALI: Soul Camp
CHICAGO: Chosen Few events
ATLANTA: House In The Park events 
FLORIDA: Winter Music Conference
NEW YORK: Dweller

PRODUCTIONS
Pure Joy - Geri Free Hotwaxx & Hazmat Live Remix
GMHDisciple Tech - Hotwaxx Hale
Freedom feat. Jessica Care Moore – Hotwaxx 
Like a Feather – Marrisa Guzman – Hotwaxx Mix 
Bella Beautiful – Nyumba Muziki 
Hale 2 House – Hotwaxx featuring Louis Hale 
Goin Down – Hotwaxx/ Felle Fell 
Invitation – Hotwaxx Remix & edit
Put Your Hands Up – Hotwaxx Remix 
Tell Me About it – Hotwaxx Remix & edit 
Haven't You Heard – Hotwaxx Remix 
Charlies Baby - Hotwaxx Remix
Kik Children – Davina - Heaven Mix 
How You Play the Game – HouseKeepers Hotwaxx Mix 
Standing in the Rain - Eddie Fowlkes Feat. Crystal 
Hotwaxx Mix - Jezebel

FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC):
https://cmc.lnk.to/cmcd141d

Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original".
Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with ‘Mad’ Mike Banks & Jeff Mills, his seminal works on Jeff Mill's Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late Nineties.
Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. 

"Growing up in Detroit, I grew up with Motown in the house - a lot of Motown and Philadelphia soul, artists like Marvin Gaye of course and Curtis Mayfield. I remember Isaac Hayes, the soundtrack from ‘Shaft’ had come out. My father was a jazz musician; he played piano, trumpet and drums. My mother was in an R’n’B group.
We listened to a lot of Motown - in fact, my grandfather’s first cousin is Berry Gordy.
"I was influenced by my father - I wanted to play trumpet like he did."
Robert's father tragically died when he was just 6. The photo of Robert siting down holding a trumpet is his fathers.
"I had to beg my grandmother to let me borrow the trumpet to take a picture with it"

In the early 90's he began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-102 were big stepping-stones for him as they were the first releases he worked 100% on his own. The X-101 to X-102, were Waveform Transmission projects with Mills for Tresor. He slowly progressed to work more and more on his own, but collaberated on some of the first Axis releases with label owner Jeff Mills as H&M (Hood & Mills) with ‘Tranquilizer EP’ and ‘Drama’.

He soon decided it was time for him to start his own label to focus on what was in his soul musically. M-Plant started in ’94. I had developed this “grey area” sound - what I mean by that is that in Detroit, even when the sun is out, there’s something in the atmosphere. I don’t know if its pollution or whatever, but the sky has that grey haze over it. It’s got to be something from the industrial factories there. I’d never really heard a sound like that before and it came from a Roland Juno - it was a chord sound that really went along with my depiction of what Detroit was at that time. A lot of buildings were abandoned and there was a lot of lifelessness in the city, especially downtown. The M-Plant, in minimalism, kind of reflected that. I remember thinking of Detroit like a museum. You know, like a work of art standing still, suspended in time. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity going on.

Releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", “The Protein Valve” "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts", "The Pace", more recently "Range", "Alpha" and that isn't even touching his other monikers Floorplan, Monobox, The Vision, etc.
"M-Plant is what I've always wanted to hear: the basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. “It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound. M-Plant is just M. minimal. “

Although his desire to remain underground has been replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, mainly via his housier, disco, gospel moniker Floorplan with his daughter Lyric Hood,   Hood remains fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and has combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends.

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