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From Post-Disco to Pre-Techno: Movement week panel spotlights the emergence of techno in Detroit

Panelists Norm Talley, Delano Smith, Stacey "Hotwaxx" Hale and moderator Kai Alcé chart the formation of techno among Detroit's youth in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Movement unveils set-times for 2025 festival

Movement has announced set times for the 2025 Movement Festival, taking place over Memorial Day Weekend in Hart Plaza, Detroit.

Detroit’s Movement Festival releases full 2025 lineup

Over 100 acts and some of the greatest house, techno and electronic music artists in the world gather together at Hart Plaza in Detroit this Memorial Day weekend.

Black Eyes: This Is A Broadcast From The Future

5 Mag meets Black Eyes, the Mancunian producer whose label Lost Control 2097 is capturing a certain raw, sometimes psychedelic but viscerally rhythmic brand of techno and deep house.

Straight Up No Chaser: deep house at its finest from Delano Smith & Norm Talley

Double twelve inch in which two of the greatest deep house producers in Detroit (and that means in the world) drop some of their dopest tracks.

House Music is a Spiritual Thing: Inside 5 Mag #210

Sacred beats: Levon Vincent, DJ Disciple, Gehno Aviance aka One A and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, house music from Chicago.

Music In Motion is Detroit House at its best from Upstairs Asylum

Norm Talley's vinyl-only label continues its march through the racks with another killer V/A featuring real house music for working DJs.

Deepness Xpozd are late night jams from Aakmael & Upstairs Asylum

New on vinyl: another cache of gems, Deepness Xpozd showcase DJ Aakmael's late night jams on Norm Talley's Upstairs Asylum.

Upstairs Asylum drops another V/A with The Sundowners EP

With a threshold for insanely high quality deep house, Norm Talley's Upstairs Asylum is on a roll, with a new EP featuring tracks from Felipe Gordon, Stefan Ringer and Deepset.

Norm Talley & Upstairs Asylum: “This Is What the Underground Is”

Powered by rare releases, unreleased mixes and a roster thick with Detroit talent, Norm Talley's Upstairs Asylum is widely hailed as one of the best deep house record labels of 2021. The year before, it didn't even exist.

Jazz, house & everything together from Malik Alston

Malik Alston calls this "fun," and fun it must have been to hear his band Painted Pictures become an absolutely ferocious outfit in a studio setting for Air.

#Praise – Inside the new issue of 5 Mag

Live from Detroit with Norm Talley & Upstairs Asylum, Lea Lisa, Cratan and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.

Upstairs Asylum’s Unity Vol 1 is the best V/A of the year & it really isn’t...

Norm Talley brings together not just 8 of the best producers from Detroit but some of their best work on Unity Vol 1, featuring Jon Dixon, Darren Abrams, Rick Wade, Mike Clark, Kai Alce, Kyle Hall, Eddie Fowlkes and Santonio Echols.

#MadeWithLove

Inside the new issue of 5 Mag with Solomun, Andrew Emil, Ultra Naté, Dam Swindle and more.

Detroit’s finest: Charivari festival returns in August with its best line-up yet

Returning August 13, 14 & 15: all of your hero's heroes will be in Detroit for Charivari, the homegrown midwest festival.

Kyle Hall teaches on the MPC Dreams EP

"Expression" is a low slung classic featuring Amp Fiddler on keys from Kyle Hall's MPC Dreams EP.

Sushitech reissues Delano Smith & Norm Talley’s Constellation / Detroit 2-Step

Probably one of the greatest deep house 10" records of the last decade, Sushitech beats back the hoarders with a reissue of the 2009 split release with Delano Smith's "Constellation" backed by Norm Talley's "Detroit 2-Step."

Paxahau surprises with all-Detroit “Micro Movement 2021” festival

The event will be held over Memorial Day weekend in Detroit spread out across multiple clubs.

#DieTrying – Inside the new 5 Mag

Josh Milan, Ashley Beedle, Terry Farley, Jackie Queens and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.

Norm Talley launches Upstairs Asylum with all-star “Det-313” EP

If this were summer this all-star debut of fugitive tracks from Norm Talley, Omar-S, Moodymann, D'Julz and Charlotte OC would be the underground basement smash of the year.

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