The reason the album worked out so well is the way Noel elevated the music. Without him I would have recorded it very differently. He encouraged me to incorporate my love for electronic music, to mess ...

“Techno is a music that uses imagination to develop the fantasy of what the future can be,” says Carl Craig, waxing poetic. But his sound is just as informed by the past as it is by the future. Part ...

Ian Ritchie has no qualms in adapting to different musical genres. Ten years ago he was dabbling with techno and providing the saxophone to a hit single. Last week, he was in Roger Waters' band, ...

At 60, the D.J. and producer is inspiring fresh generations with new work, including an LP that approximates the experience of traveling through a black hole. By Mike Rubin During a recent performance ...

"Maybe myself and another artist can churn away for an hour," he teases. By Gary Graff Jason Moran plans to blend genres in one of his performances as the Detroit Jazz Festival’s artist-in-residence ...

Fusions, like politics, make strange … no, let’s just say interesting bedfellows. And as lots of jazz and techno fans know, Carl Craig is at the fused intersection of their genres. One of his projects ...

In the interests of organization, this year I tracked new music in an ongoing iTunes playlist, but the attempt at housekeeping had one unexpectedly stressful consequence: I now have hard numbers to ...

Rapper Common's newest album Electric Circus is a hybrid of several different styles. Expanding on the jazz and bohemian feel from his previous albums, this one has a variety of different experimental ...

Has anyone ever suggested that an activity in which you are participating is an attempt to “reinvent the wheel"? Listening to the experimental instruments and electro-acoustic manipulations of sound ...

A new exhibit at the Michigan State University Museum celebrates Detroit as the birthplace of techno music in the 1980s and '90s and how the genre has progressed to today. "Techno: The Rise of Detroit ...