The Detroit Techno House

Ahhhh spring. It’s a unique pleasure for us Michigan folks to be able to go out and not have to carry your jacket with you everywhere you go so you don’t get fucking hypothermia. This weekend has been fantastic in that respect, hot days and warm nights. Friday I didn’t get to peep out any electronic music, but from what I saw, it was just popping off all over town. One thing I absolutely love about the D, despite that there’s no job’s, the streets are crumbling, and the crime ranking climbs higher by the day, we got good house and techno going off all over the place. Last night we ended up heading out to the Works late. It’s becoming customary to get there at last call for us, god damned 2am alcohol laws piss me off. The house was blowin up in the front room, and it appeared there was an MC of sorts(what?)for a little while. The back room had some sick fuckin’ techno from like 2:30 on. I need to spend less time drinking and more time remembering who the DJ is, but it looked like a tag team. If I would have made it down a little earlier, I would have liked to check out Respect at THC, I had a blast last time. So, it’s getting warmer, the days are getting longer, if your reading this, go out and support you local DJs and take advantage of the one thing we still got.

Its about time we got some nice ass weather, this was the first weekend in forever where I didn’t feel like I was living in fucking Alaska. Friday was a perfect night to go out,and there were a few things poppin off around town. We started off our evening at Proof. DJ Kiddo was spinning some decent techno, although the sound was turned way down, so it may as well have been background music. The crowd at Proof was obviously not there for the music, sans perhaps the one dude that was dancing by himself in front of the DJ. We decided to make tracks to the Works next to see what was happening there. If you’ve read any of my previous event reviews on this blog, you know I have a love/hate relationship with the Works. Either its great, the drinks are strong, and the music’s banging, or the the crowd is fucking strange, the drinks are weak as fuck, and the music is boring. This Friday was definitely the latter. Stayed a short time, and I was happy to leave. The rest of the evening consisted of meeting a drunk-as-hell friend at the Majestic and watching a huge altercation erupt as we got to our car to leave. Fun. I’m waiting to hear how the Organic 10 year was at Park Bar last night, I got lazy and didn’t make it, but I imagine it was good times.