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Article: Detroit Electronic Music Festival salutes Chicago connection.
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2002
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Byline: Brian McCollum
CHICAGO _ Gramaphone Records is a dusty old place on music's cutting edge.
Nestled in a funky neighborhood on this city's northwest side, the ages-old record shop remains the embryonic heartbeat of electronic dance music, its racks crammed with the seminal vinyl records that are the lifeblood of DJ culture.
The store thrives today, but you have to reach back more than 15 years to pinpoint the most crucial chapter in its legacy: the flurry of activity within the tiny shop's walls, as the guys who invented techno and house music eagerly sifted through the records they'd use to reshape the music world.
Among them ...