Derrick May

To stake your claim as a legendary artist in the electronic dance music world is no easy feat. Read More

There's simply too much house, techno, dubstep, downtempo, electro, ambient, and whatever the hell else they're calling it all this week (Special 12-Inch Remix Dub Edit, of course) for even the full-time culture geeks at The A.V. Club to make sense of. Read More

Hidden within the confines of the Leland hotel, in the heart of the Cass Corridor, lies a place with the majesty of Brigadoon, a place where one can be themselves and find sanctuary and joy — a place all its own. Read More

And yet, that one tiny hand movement could be felt from the very back of the tent, through the misty crowd, across the bottle-strewn floor, past the shafts of morning sunlight, to the bodies on stage, and the tight, shaking DJ booth. Read More

Raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Barclay Crenshaw fell in love with the beat by listening to popular broadcasts of the Electrifying Mojo's Midnight Funk Association on local radio. Read More

The Detroit-rooted electronic dance music -- steaming from funk, sythnpop and electro -- includes synth-based tunes with various Chicago house, funk, and electric jazz back beats. Read More

In today's chart obsessed, hype driven DJ world, he probably would be. Read More

Derrick May, a Detroit-bred pioneer of Techno music, addressed a crowd of parents and students at the open house for Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies School last Tuesday. Read More

It is an icon, a pioneer, and a part of techno history, but for the last few years, Derrick May's seminal Detroit record label Transmat Records has been a relic of the past with only a scattering a test pressings since 2002. Read More

It's widely known that pulling off a dance music full length is a difficult proposition. Read More