For LWE’s fourth year-end column, staff writer Michael C. Walsh collects ten essential downloads from the second half of 2012.
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BBH: Various Artists, In The Dark: The Soul Of Detroit
April 18, 2012 – 10:01 AM
It’s not often that we’ll write up a repress here at LWE, especially when the original discs were released less than a decade ago, but then In the Dark is a pretty special collection of music.
Tresor Reflects On 20 Years
November 9, 2011 – 10:31 AM
After 20 years as a bastion of techno, both in Berlin and abroad, Tresor’s founder Dimitri Hegemann reflects on its background and history, how the Detroit-Berlin alliance was forged and his plans for the club and label’s future. LWE also interviewed Mike Huckaby, a longtime friend of the club who mixed the label’s 20 year anniversary compilation.
LWE Podcast 50: Mike Huckaby retires this week
June 5, 2011 – 10:01 PM
LWE’s landmark 50th podcast was lovingly crafted by Detroit maven, Mike Huckaby. Make sure to add it to your collection before it’s archived this Friday, June 10th.
LWE Podcast 50: Mike Huckaby
May 10, 2010 – 12:01 AM
Even if we could ignore all his considerable undertakings and accomplishments, Mike Huckaby would still be an LWE favorite for his refreshingly level-headed and thoughtful perspectives on the electronic music industry. We tried to coax a few of those out of him in the Q&A that follows, and we’re honored and thrilled to present, as LWE’s 50th podcast, an exclusive 78-minute mix from one of the crucial artists of our time.
LWE 2Q Reports: Top 5 Reissues
July 9, 2009 – 9:42 AM
On the reissue front, last year saw a new CD package of Basic Channel highlights, the Gas boxed set, and a repress of Model 500’s seminal Deep Space. Can 2009 match that? Six months in, looks like it just might.
Model 500, Starlight
September 2, 2008 – 7:02 PM
[echospace [detroit]] It made perfect sense for echospace [detroit] to issue new remixes of Model 500’s immortal “Starlight” back in the summer of 2007. After all, Juan Atkins’ and Mortiz von Oswald’s 1995 original is a clear touchstone for the echospace sound, fusing the dubbed-out analog washes of Berlin’s Basic Channel camp with the rhythmic […]