This mix accompanies the essay - 'The Sound of Detroit: Notes, Tones and Rhythms from Underground' written by Louis Moreno. Published in the book 'The Acoustic City' edited by Matthew Gandy and BJ Nilsen (Jovis 2014)

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The picture is the General Motors Renaissance Center complex in downtown Detroit circa 1980. It's a screen-grab from the brilliant documentary 'Taking Back Detroit' directed by Stephen Lighthill (1980)

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1. Jeff Mills - Landscape (Utopian Dream) (Tresor)
2. 'Little' Joe L Carter - Please Mr. Foreman (taken from the soundtrack to 'Finally Got the News')
3. Model 500 - Night Drive (Thru-Babylon) (Metroplex)
4. UR - Hardlife (Aaron Carl Remix) (Underground Resistance)
5. Theo Parrish - Early Byrd (Elevate US)
6. Model 500 - Mind Changes (Apollo/R&S)
7. Da Sampla - Pursuit (Mix 3) (M3)
8. Yukihiro Takahashi - New (Red) Roses (Alfa Records Inc.)
9. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove  (Warner Bros.)
10. Kraftwerk - Numbers (Warner Bros)
11. Moodymann - 9 Nites 2 Nowhere (Scion A/V)
12. The Vision - Detroit: One Circle (Metroplex)
13. Model 500 - Ocean 2 Ocean (Juan's Magic Mix) (Kool Kat/Transmat)
14. Paperclip People - My Neighbourhood (Planet E)
15. Omar S - Day (FXHE Records)
16. Underground Resistance - Code of Honor (Network Records)
17. Dopplereffekt - Speak & Spell (Dataphysix Engineering)
18. Cybotron - Alleys of Your Mind (Fantasy)
19. UR003 - Base Camp Alpha 808 (Underground Resistance)
20. Aaliyah - One in a Million (Atlantic/Blackground Enterprises)
21. Drexciya - Doctor Blowfin's Water Cruiser (Submerge)
22. Ken Cockrel Snr. speech from 'Finally Got the News'.
23. Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity (Capitol Records)
24. Cybotron - Techno City (Fantasy)
25. Millsart - Gamma Player (Axis)
26. The Martian - Lost Transmission from Earth (Red Planet)
27. Drexciya - Neon Falls (Submerge)
28. The B-52's - Mesopotamia (Danny Krivit Re-Edit) (Strut)



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