Mike Huckaby is one of our favorite Detroit DJs and producers. He's best known for his command of house music, but he's also become a favored re-mixer of dub techno artists in Europe. He lives here, but works there a lot. Which has often prompted the question: when are you moving to Berlin? "Never," he says. Good man.
Resident Advisor, a Berlin- and London-based webzine, talked to him about his good habits in the studio.
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Another thing you get with Huckaby is candor. His first release,
Deep Transportation Vol. 1, dropped on Rick Wade's Harmonie Park imprint back in 1995 although by his own admission he had been seriously struggling to get to grips with the production game for years prior to its release. Even beyond those initial tribulations Huckaby speaks openly about crucial mistakes that have held him back down the years. Now among the most celebrated of Motor City producers, with a dizzying handle on production processes and a sample CD bearing his name, it's little wonder he's so willing to impart the advice he so clearly would have relished in his formative years.
Read the whole piece
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