Remembering The Detroit “Scene”
Teenagers dancing to A Number of Names’ “Sharevari,” one of the heavy influences on the early techno scene and a huge record in Detroit.
Kano’s “I’m Ready.”
Captain Rapp’s “Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It).”
And finally, this wondrous thing, from the mid-’90s, from The New Dance Show, The Scene‘s successor. Please keep in mind that this footage contains music from German techno artists Jammin’ Unit as well as Chicago house legends Armando and Adonis, all mixed up with Duice’s “Dazzey Dukes”–a combination that seems strange to many for reasons far more social than musical, but which the energetic young dancers take in absolute stride: