Underground electronic music, Comics, Film, Politics, Jetsetting, Hollywood, Berlin, Chicago, Tokyo, Design, Women, Graphics, Art, Galleries, anything Basquiat and Warhol, Entertainment Weekly junkie
Music
Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Massive Attack, Curve, Lush, Lenny Kravitz, Dead Can Dance, Moev, TV on the Radio, Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, Mos Def, John Coltrane, Tricky, Portishead, Medicine, Slowdive, Chapterhouse, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride, Depeche Mode, Terrence Dixon, Weather Report, Return to Forever, Kano, Lenny White, Xmal Deutschland, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sonic Youth, The Notorious B.I.G. (RIP), EPMD, Gang*Starr, Disjecta, Seefeel, Interpol, Medicine, Bowery Electric, The Roots, Gang of Four, Japan, Shriekback, Heaven 17, Talk Talk, Psychedelic Furs, Missing Persons, Section 25, Simple Minds, Martha and the Muffins, The Specials, David Bowie, Marco Passarani, N*E*R*D*, Photek, Ultradyne, The Subways, The Raveonettes, Film School, Tokyo Police Club, on and on and on. People always look at me sideways when I tell what kind of music I like, which is why I don't talk about music anymore. Black people aren't supposed to like this kind of music, what's wrong with me.
Movies
To Live and Die in L.A., Heat, The Talented Mr. Ripley, the original Star Wars Trilogy, Superman: The Movie, Blade Runner, Star Trek II: The Search for Spock, the X-Men movies, the Spidey movies, Manhunter, Collateral, The Insider, Man on Fire, In The Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, Hurlyburly, Wall Street, American Beauty, The Killer, Hard-Boiled, 2046, The Matrix, Kill Bill Volumes I & II, Pulp Fiction, Swordfish (underrated), Bad Company (1995 Laurence Fishburne version), She's Gotta Have It, Malcolm X, The Rat Pack, Underworld, Underworld: Evolution, Ultraviolet, Equilibrium, Hellboy, Roger Dodger, Infernal Affairs, Fulltime Killer, The Replacement Killers, the Blade movies, Minority Report (very, very underrated), Collateral, Capote, Anything with George Clooney in it except Solaris, Running Scared, the Bourne movies, Hollywoodland, Hard Candy, Talk to Me, There Will Be Blood, I Am Legend, American Gangster, and on and on and on.
Television
Seinfeld, Profit, Mad Men, any old B&W TV show. Hulu is my friend but they should make it so you can view from Europe.
Books
"Negrophobia" by my friend Darius James, "The Intuitionist" and "Apex Hides the Hurt" by the great Colson Whitehead, "Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film" by Peter Biskind, "The Black Expatriates" by Ernest Dunbar, "The Return of the Player" by Michael Tolkin, and "Rebels on the Backlot" by Sharon Waxman.
Heroes
In no particular order: Miles Davis, Malcolm X, MLK, JFK, RFK, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sammy Davis, Jr. (Rat Pack era), Frank Sinatra, Andy Warhol, Ashley Wood, Spike Lee, Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Vernon Reid, Jeff Mills, Mad Mike, Derrick May, Lewis Hamilton, Dr. Bill Cosby, Mayor Coleman Young, Barack Obama, and Lincoln Osiris.
Detroit Metro Times and Real Detroit/Mixworks 20/20 Award-winning international Detroit Techno DJ and electronic musician born and raised in the 313 (beware of 248s and 734s aka suburbanites trying to claim the 313). Left Detroit for good back in 2004 and now I'm having the time of my life living in the great cities of Chicago and Berlin and touring around the world playing hard electronic beats for those who know.
Known aliases: DJ T-1000, X-313, TXC, Signal to Noise Ratio, Hardsignal, Detroitrocketscience, The Neon Sex Fiend, The Inside and more. I'm perhaps best known worldwide for my Tresor Berlin album "Progress."
First-ever UR "Assault DJ" and first graduate of the UR techno DJ boot camp. Early alliance with Submerge and Mad Mike (who along with Jeff Mills got me started in the techno business). Owner of the Generator label (which put out the first Marco Passarani and Sean Deason records), as well as Pure Sonik Records and my CD-only, lowtempo label xfive. I also did a label a long time ago called Technika and discovered the Black industrial band Code Industry, who went on to sign with Antler-Subway, Belgium.
I am also a former radio personality, hosting Detroit's first-ever EBM/electronic music program "Fast Forward" for five years on WDET-FM 101.9. My show made local legends out of many of the early Detroit Techno artists and exposed urban Detroit to Industrial/EBM and other styles of electronic music.
Teamed with Pop Culture Media to help produce the successful 2002 edition of the DEMF, which culminated in record-breaking attendance and Dave Clarke's triumphant return to America among other musical highlights.
I have been featured and quoted in such books as "The Rough Guide to Techno," "Techno Rebels," "Beats," "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life," "Djax-Up-Beats: The Power of the Underground," "Localizer 1.0", and Japan's "Techno: Black Machine Music and Galactic Soul," and "Techno Disc Guide." I am also featured in the films "High Tech Soul," "Tresor: The Vault," and had a 2007 feature in "Slices" DVD magazine.
My style/fashion icons in electronic music are the super-cool Stacey Pullen and Troy Pierce. I wish I looked like them!
And in my spare time, I play in a live Darkwave/EBM band backing up LadyParasyte.
As an illustrator, I was the first and only Detroit talent to combine art, electronic music and DJing. I started out doing artwork for Transmat, then I went on to create the signature look of Holland-based Djax-Up-Beats on hundreds of releases. I have also done illustrations and designs for Astralwerks, +8, KMS, Submerge, New Religion, Seventh Sign, AW Recordings, and many other labels. I've also put out my own indie comic books like JOHNNY GAMBIT, GENERATOR COMICS, and THE SEXY ADVENTURES OF ORIETTA ST. CLOUD.
In 2005, I began showing in galleries. I've since had successful shows at the Open Door Gallery and the No Friction Cafe (Chicago), Le Fromager Gallery/Restaurant (Paris), the Crewest Gallery (Los Angeles), and Galerie Zero (Berlin). I've also done a number of private commissions for clients in the UK, USA, and the Netherlands. I'm always taking new art projects, message me!
IN STORES NOW: The return of Pure Sonik Records! First release: PURE18 JOHNNY GAMBIT graphic novel/original vinyl soundtrack! Limited edition Comic/CD or vinyl combo (signed) available NOW at www.puresonikrecords.net
COMING SOON ON PURE SONIK RECORDS: DJ T-1000 "BLASTER" EP! (PURE19)
Hey waz up ??? Support Detroit Techno to Grow Up again ! cya there... is getting Hot in here...wish an endless summer ;) how are you ... tell me some ! :)
Greetings fellow Beaubien alum! Thanx for the add. I'd love to have you playing back in the 313, but as we all know a prophet is not without honor, save in his own house. Peace and prosperity upon you...
nice to hear from you. yeah it has been a minute. i've been on nightshift for about a month now. i may in fact, be turning into a robot. i'm ok with that. ;)
but i'm happy, things are going well! how's thangs with you? i know t's trying to get you out here. man, that'll be fun! i hope you are doing mr. oldham! still one of my favourite peeps! =)
