XLR8R finds the spirit of Detroit in the city's underground dance scene

Detroit's influence on dance and techno is well documented, and well documented by Model D's own FilterD editor Walter Wasacz. Here's a piece of his that just dropped in XLR8R, a music and culture e-mag, about the spirit of Detroit through the techno scene. But you'll quickly read that although the piece frames it through a techno and dance theme, Detroit's spirit is quite universal.

Excerpt from XLR8R:

"I feel I'm in a good position in my life to do this now," he says. "Detroit has a spirit that you can't really see but you can feel it. The only way I can put it is it just is. We don't have marketing or media, unless we do it ourselves. We primarily just make the music, sometimes by accident, because it comes from some place I can't explain. Can you?"

No, but I like where this is going. Scratching it out with little money and more love, pushing the Detroit vibe by any means necessary to who knows where. But they'll know when they feel it, Aaron-Carl says.

"People need real soul music in their lives. They are hungry for it because they can't find the real thing anywhere else," he says. "It's something unique inside us we can share. And we do it through house music and funky techno. Take our emotions. It's a gift, from us to you."

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