How does it feel to be on your own? Sifting through the rubble, bringing up the dead, reassembling history from below.
Early Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins as Model 500 (Channel One, Borderland, Cybertron, Belleville Three), Metroplex Records, electro sound influenced by Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, and Space Disco (Meco, French band Space). The sound goes back to the 1970s in Europe but Detroit techno gives it an austere, minimalist, endlessly unspooling, shifting, hypnotic retro-space groove rust belt motor city signature. Neo-Noir sounds of the 20th century.
Carl Craig is second wave Detroit Techno. I really don't know the first wave much beyond Derrick May and Juan Atkins; or the Bellevue Three. But second wave means after Cybotron, Big Fun, and above all "Strings of Life," the first wave peak of 1989-90. The second wave takes off in '91 and maybe peaks here in 1994. Craig tops most second wave lists, anyway; and doubles down on Detroit techno's hardcore tradition of spacey abstracted instrumentals. Here Craig remixes Manuel Gottsching's 1984 classic "E2-E4." Gottsching was one of '70s Krautrock's most celebrated guitarists, behind the group Ash Ra Tempel and playing a vanguard intersection of Krautrock and experimental minimalism. Mesmerizing repetition unspooling like a bullet train traversing an urban grid; a quasi spiritual quest after extended moments of flashing lights and melodic ASMR zen. Or ambient techno; noir disco; death disco without the dread. Blacktronica. Detroit Techno meets Krautrock.
Bonus track: Juan Atkins "Session 4" off The Berlin Sessions (2005). More ambient techno in the Detroit style.