Hey Music Mag - Issue 3 - December 2018

MOBY’S NEW
MEMOIR
Following on from his
much-loved, candid and
often amusing memoir
Porcelain from 2016, Moby
is releasing a follow-up in
June. And Then It Fell Apart
documents his journey
into fame, the demons and
addictions that come with
it, as well as funny stories
involving Trump, Putin and
various other characters.
FESTIVAL
AWARDS
Belgium’s Pukkelpop,
Danish festival Roskilde
and Spain’s Bilbao BBK
Live have been nominated
for Best Major Festival
in the European Festival
Awards – the annual
celebration of the continent’s
best music events. The
Awards ceremony will
take place on 16 January,
in Groningen, The
Netherlands. Exit Festival
in Serbia (above) picked
up the gong in the same
category earlier this year.
DETROIT’S
TECHNO STORY
SET STRAIGHT
The earliest story of techno is one that is well known:
Detroit friends Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick
May, Eddie Fowlkes, Blake Baxter and Santonio Echols
pioneered the genre and turned out a number of definitive
tracks that became local hits. It wasn’t until a London
label licensed the tracks for release in the UK, though,
that wider attention was brought to the genre.
With that, Atkins, Sauderson and May quickly started
earning but everyone else was left out of the picture with
no apparent knowledge of the deals that were being
made. As such, Blake, Eddie and Santonio were left in
the shadows, written out of the history of techno and to
this day remain uncompensated.
New film, God Said Give ’Em Drum Machines: The
Story of Detroit Techno, by Motor City natives Jennifer
Washington and Kristian Hill, tells that story and
investigates how techno was the foundation of what is
now a global $7.1 billion industry known as EDM.
Of the film, which is due for release in 2019, the
producers say: “As of 2018, there are no African-
Americans listed as top earning artists. It has been our
personal mission to set the record straight and bring
this important but overlooked part of black history to
mainstream audiences.”
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