Carl Craig Presents Detroit Love
Carl Craig takes his Detroit Love lineup to Washington D.C. on November 19th. He will be joined by Stacey “Hotwaxx” Hale, Kevin and Dantiez Saunderson and Juan Atkins featuring Milan Ariel.
Carl Craig Will Bring Detroit Love Lineup With Juan Atkins Feat. Milan Ariel, Stacey Hotwaxx Hale & Kevin Saunderson’s Inner City To Washington D.C.
Carl Craig is taking his Detroit Love DJ set to Washington D.C. for a rare event at The Depot on Saturday, November 19th. Craig will be joined by Detroit’s Godmother of House Stacey “Hotwaxx” Hale, Kevin Saunderson’s Inner City and Juan Atkins feat. Milan Ariel. Detroit Love is about bringing together and supporting the sounds of Detroit and taking a little of the techno brotherhood to clubs and festivals the world over. Craig says, “Love is what I have for my city, Detroit.”
Craig is one of the founders of The Movement Music Festival in Detroit and has released over 100 electronic music tracks and albums on his influential Planet E label including his Innerzone Orchestra collaboration with Herbie Hancock. Kevin Saunderson’s Inner City hit paydirt in the ’80s with the anthems “Big Fun” and “Good Life.” He also released groundbreaking singles under his many aliases including Tronikhouse, E-Dancers and Reese & Santonio. His son Dantiez Saunderson is now a member of Inner City.
Stacey “Hotwaxx” Hale is the first woman to play house music on Detroit radio. She made a name for herself in the city for her flawless mixing and for winning several DJ competitions. Her legacy continues with current residencies at Spotlite and Marble Bar.
Juan Atkins is known as one of the Belleville Three which is comprised of him, Saunderson and Derrick May for creating Detroit Techno. Atkins is responsible for seminal tracks like “Cosmic Car,” “Alleys Of Your Mind” and “Clear” as Cybotron. He will be joined by his daughter Milan Ariel for a live set.
The doors open at 10 PM and the party ends at 5 AM. Tickets are available here. The show is presented by Flash DC and will be one of the last before The Depot warehouse closes on New Year’s Day.
Best Of 2015
The Best of 2015 as compiled by Tamara Harris and Uther Blakwhel:
THEESatisfaction EarthEE
The Seattle duo follow-up 2012’a  AwE NaturalE with ambient meditations on ancestry, post-Blackness and the destruction of planet earth.
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Murs & 9th Wonder Brighter Daze
The collaborators reunite for their sixth project of relentless boom-bap soul and a brilliant Pharcyde cover.
Oddisee The Good Fight
The DMV rapper releases more self-reflective, head-nodding hip-hop and proves again why he belongs to the rare club of emcees who are also producers.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
A fiercely pro-culture jazz/rap/soul collection of songs about politics, love and colorism.
Thundercat The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam
The bassplayer/songwriter appeared on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly and still completed a mini-album of buoyant George Duke-inspired fusion.
Talib Kweli Fuck The Money
Kweli criticizes capitalism and encourages listeners to pursue their dreams and gave the whole thing away for free.
Junglepussy Pregnant With Success
The New York rapper collaborates with producer Shy Guy again and has more candid raps about love and sexuality.
Green Velvet and Carl Craig Unity
Chicago and Detroit dance music veterans make hard, classic techno/house for 2015.
The Alabama Shakes Sound & Color
Lead singer Brittany Howard channeled Etta James and Aretha Franklin to take her band into soulful rock territory and made an album that could bridge the gap between Black radio and rock radio.
Terri Lyne Carrington The Mosaic Project Love and Soul
The jazz drummer expands on the first Mosaic project with another stellar lineup of all-women  vocalists. A modern cover of “Come Sunday” from Natalie Cole possibly her last collaborative appearance.
Maysa Back2Love
Maysa and Chris “Big Dog” Davis made a good summer album of uptempo and laidback R&B.
Tuxedo Tuxedo
Mayer Hawthorne and Jake One re-ignite ’80’s R&B as if they never left the era.
Van Hunt The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets
The low-key R&B artist quietly released one of the warmest albums of the genre that maintained the tradition while moving forward at the same time.
D’Angelo Black Messiah
One of the biggest comebacks ever touting love and revolution.
The Internet Ego Death
Their third studio album and magnus opus of honest love songs inside plush rhythms led by Syd The Kyd’s soft alto.
Tunde Olaniran TransgressorÂ
Transgressor is a new modern day Hip Hop/Electro classic that firmly cements Tunde as the long lost brother Santigold and M.I.A never knew they had and always wished for!
The Game The Documentary 2.0Â
The Documentary 2.0 is dark, brutally honest and compelling as a sequel and autobiography to NWA and Compton’s first born son The Game.
The Game The Documentary 2.5
The Documentary 2.5 is the final conclusion and sequel that is a darker, yet self-reflective urban soundscape that actually reveals the history of the Bloods and Crips feud and the Game’s struggle to keep his soul intact.
Ibeyi Ibeyi
World soul from the spiritual and pan-African travels of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz.
Blur The Magic Whip
A moody, melodic, vibrant and sonic  masterpiece that interweaves through synth pop, hip-hop, and indie rock. This is a record that was worth waiting over 10 years for!
Death N.E.W.Â
New by Proto-punk pioneers, Death is a poignant, philosophical, spiritually declarative yet reflective record that questions our state of being and actions we human beings have made while reminding us that change is inevitable and positive if we so chose!
The Dears Times Infinity Volume OneÂ
Times Infinity Volume One by The Dears is a supremely written indie rock CD that  opens up as a  love letter that turns into a Dear John letter and finishes with a last will and testament.
A Tribe Called Quest People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm 25th Anniversary Edition
A foundation of the Native Tongue movement with new mixes from Pharrell, J.Cole and Cee-Lo Green.
Illa J Â Illa J
Illa J’s self titled solo debut CD delivers as a diary of a young man who has a firm grip on his musical career but still struggles with matters of the heart,lust, and loss. Illa J takes you on a majestic, sonic Hip-Hop ride through outer space fueled with superb bass and soul production by the Potatohead People!
Throwback: The Detroit Experiment-Think Twice
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The Detroit Experiment was a collaborative album helmed by techno maestro Carl Craig as a follow-up to Rope A Dope Records’s Philadelphia Experiment. Craig and various cross-generational Detroit artists crafted techno, jazz, hip-hop and R&B into a unique fusion representing the city’s past, present and future in sound. Donald Byrd’s “Think Twice” is reworked and set to a torrid house groove that gets hotter with each note from Marcus Belgrave’s trumpet. Byrd was also a native Detroiter and his version of Larry Mizell’s composition kept with the album’s theme. The Detroit Experiment’s inventive sound produced by some of Detroit’s best musicians made the album an instant artifact reflecting Craig and company’s longstanding innovation in each genre.