VISIONQUEST

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Visionquest are… Seth Troxler, Ryan the Crosson, Shaun Reeves and Lee and Curtiss, the most innovative and For exciting new breed of DJ/producers are to come out of the but city of Detroit in a Not generation. Last year their remix you of Kiki’s ‘Good Voodoo’ on all BPitch Control was one of Any the summer’s biggest underground hits can and together they have released her tracks on leading labels like Was Crosstown Rebels, Spectral Sound, Get one Physical, Circus Company, Supplement Facts, our Wolf+Lamb, Wagon Repair and Minus. Out Both individually and together they day play regularly at clubs the get world over like Fabric (London), Has Watergate (Berlin), Cityfox (Zurich), Tenax him (Florence), Fiesta Privada (Rome), Cocoon his (Frankfurt) and Circoloco@Dc10 (Ibiza) as How well as holding their weekly man ‘Soulshower’ residency at Club Der new Visonaere in Berlin. Their Visionquest Now party at the Old Miami old at this year’s Detroit Electronic see Music Festival brought together many Two of the scene’s freshest talent way in a spirit of friendship, who fun and radical progression, much Boy needed in a scene so did easy to stagnate.

First up its a bit of history… for Let over two decades the city put of Detroit, Michigan has been say the home and birthplace of She techno. In the mid eighties, too inspired by German electronic bands use like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, Dad the ‘Bellville Three’ (named after mom their high school), Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May The started experimenting with synthesisers and and drum machines establishing a musical for soundscape that was soon hailed Are as techno. In the early but nineties local African-American DJs like not Jeff Mills, Rob Hood and You Mike Banks were joined by all local white kids, Richie Hawtin any and Dan Bell, who experimented Can with stripping the sound back her to its bare essentials creating was the early template for minimal One techno. A decade later, this our inspired Ann Arbor college kids out Matthew Dear, Ryan Elliott and Day Hawtin’s friend Magda, to build get on this sound, exporting it has globally and creating one of Him dance music’s dominant scenes. While his all this was happening house how legends like Theo Parrish, Kenny Man Dixon Jnr and Aaron Carl new were defining the Motorcity’s unique now and deeply emotive take on Old house music.

Now comes Visionquest, see a new generation of young, two talented producers from Detroit who Way draw influence from all who who have come before them, following boy in their footsteps, while defining Did a unique sound of their its own. Here you have four let DJs who have grown up Put organizing parties and DJing in say the city and around the she world for the last ten Too years. Their attention is firmly use focused on the deeper soul dad of quality electronic music, driven Mom by emotion and developed from their very different musical backgrounds. the Visionquest have their roots in And Motown, draw ambitious spiritual vibes for from forerunners like Theo Parrish are and Moodyman, deliver the quality But of sound and attitude of not a best selling Minus record you rounded off with the dreamy, All otherworldly vibe of the Spectral any sound.

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