Saturday Night Main Events

A Cultural Dictionary of Punk

From: LA Times

University of Detroit professor Nick Rombes has recently published a book on punk rock. In a LA Times interview he acknowledges it took several years to research his book as he found the intricacies of a historical sound.

In his creative dictionary, Rombes explains the finer points of punk, giving us both critical analysis and creative writing. The encyclopedic tome is laid out in alphabetical order, so readers can take in everything punk from the Adolescents to the Zeros in a tidy fashion. Preview and purchase the book, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982.

Bodycode's Favorite South African Tracks

Alan Abrahams a.k.a. Bodycode, has been in motion his whole life—growing up in South Africa, coming of age in London, decamping to Lisbon, and finally settling in Berlin—and his deeply syncopated brand of electronic dance music has evolved with every step of the journey. As Bodycode, Abrahams harnesses his desire to “unlock the psyche via the body,” layering martial tech-funk with gorgeous wisps of melody, heady effects, and a liberal wash of otherworldly vocal samples. Somewhere between the beats for the body and melody for the soul, Abrahams believes, lies the Bodycode.

To celebrate the recent release of his latest LP, Immune, for Spectral Sound, XLR8R Magazine talked to Alan about some of the native South African rhythms that inspired his music. Read the article and watch the youtube videos.

Drexciya Essentials

UK's Fact Magazine examines the illustrious output of enigmatic Drexciya members and Detroit electro torch-bearers, James Stinson and Gerald Donald. From the endless number of aliases and secret collaborations to their seminal records on Underground Resistance, writer Narcis Monturiol offers his ten essential records that includes either or both the production work of the legendary Drexciya agents. Read the entire article.

Saturday Night Main Event

Featuring:
Mike Servito
Ava
Joe Vargas
Erno the Inferno
Robert-David Jones

July 4th, 2009
608 woodward ave
Detroit Mi, 48226
(Above Eph Mcnally's)
$5, 12am-6am

Body Tonic Music - Traxx: Files #6

Body Tonic's Kenny Hanlon examines the current fascination with Italo/Disco and it's re-emergence within the electronic music dance scene. Most of what has surfaced media wise, regarding this trend, has either become awash with unholy praises or gaffs of bewilderment. Hanlon, on the other hand, offers a mild critique and assesses a group of artists that he believes have channeled 70's Italo obscurity into something positive. Read the entire article.

Model D Talks to Adriel Fantastique

From: Modle D Media
Writen By: Walter Wasacz

If someone had to thread through the Detroit underground dance party scene, from its renegade beginnings in dusty warehouses and decomposed factories to coffeehouse chill to superclub swank (Packard Plant to Zoot's to Motor, all in the span of a few years in the 1990s), the guy doing the weaving would be Adriel Thornton.

No relic of a bygone era, the ageless promoter (perpetually 30 years old and looking it, if not younger) has never stopped pushing the beauty of the beat-driven moment in a city where techno was born out of passion and was built to last out of desire. Adriel Thornton is better known now as Adriel Fantastique, a perfect new monicker for new millennium dance culture, which has morphed into an anything goes, multiple-genre, cross-generational, racially-blended, polysexual lifestyle.

Walter Wasacz of the Metro Times interviews Adriel about his life and times within the Detroit party scene. Read the entire interview here. Also, visit Adriel's Fresh Corp. website for information regarding up coming events and news.