april, 2021
Event Details
Please join us for a very special evening with Kevin Saunderson, where he will discuss the recent relationships of his music with social justice activism and black fueled movements in Detroit. Kevin Saunderson, considered one of the originators of Detroit Techno, will be in conversation with local techno hero Wanz Dover.
This event is presented by Inspired Works, it’s free and RSVP is required, you can RSVP here
After this conversation, Kevin Saunderson will have an exclusive performance at It’ll Do Club
Easily the most dexterous in the stable of Detroit techno pioneers, Kevin Saunderson recorded some of the hardest and most mechanistic techno to come out of the Motor City, but routinely hit the mainstream dance charts as well with productions for his techno-pop act Inner City. From his very first production, Saunderson forged an energetic, groundbreaking style for techno — a dense rhythmic assault of sound samples and heavy percussion, often with a repetitive chanted chorus forming the only vocals. His Inner City productions however, consisted of much slicker, house-inspired tracks underpinning the vocal workouts by Paris Grey — and later, his wife Ann. The group hit Great Britain’s Top 40 eight times, and earned four number one club hits on the American dance chart as well. After Inner City’s initial success in 1988, the group remained his primary concern until the mid-’90s, but Saunderson never deserted his hard-hitting production style; throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Saunderson recorded as Tronik House, the Reese Project, E-Dancer, Inter-City, Essaray, and Reese & Santonio (the latter as a duo), and also developed a roster (including Blake Baxter and Chez Damier) for his own label, KMS Records.
