Detroit Digital: Presentation Follow-up

As promised here are a few links that were mentioned in our presentation on the 5th of Feb.

For those of you that missed it, this video is a documentary about the creation of techno music. It gives a really cool insight into the relationship between techno music and its birth place, Detroit. The video has a really positive out look on the cultural development in Detroit. The riots of 1967 and the economic downturn of the automobile industry didn't stop the inventiveness of Detroiters. Techno, brought internation attention to the city.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-195672552584716914

This second clip is an exerpt from a discovery channel episode on the Windsorite DJ known as Plastikman. Richard Hawtin, a.k.a Plastikman is an English-Canadian electronic musician. He played a major role in the development of the Detroit techno scene in the early 1990's. According to Wikepedia, Hawtin spent most of his life in Lasalle, Ontario and attented Sandwich Secondary High School.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj4wPEaJrjU