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Article: Fans plug into electronic music where it all began
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- May 29, 2000
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DETROIT - Plenty of people recognize the names of the Motown
legends who got their start here: Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, the
Temptations. Electronic music was born here, too, but the names of
its pioneering Detroiters are far less recognizable: Juan At-kins?
Kevin Saunderson? Ectomorph?
"I've never heard of them until now," said Jennifer Avile, 15.
"But the music is cool. It's really powerful. It just gets inside of
you and you can have a good time."
Avile and her friends from Washtenaw County's Pittsfield Township
were like many others at the first-ever Detroit Electronic Music
Festival during the Memorial Day weekend. They have heard the
booming beats and sampled sounds of techno music, ...