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TECHNO, founded in Detroit, was inspired by various black music genres including house, soul, funk and jazz and with their incorporation into electronic music, a new sound was born.
It’s against that background that this latest of many projects by Detroit’s very own Jeff Mills and legendary drummer and Afrobeat co-founder Tony Allen was conceived, as a marriage of analogue and digital.
They open with the decidedly jazzy Locked and Loaded, the first tune from their joint album Tomorrow Comes The Harvest, the perfect Afrofuturist backdrop to a performance that sees Mills bashing out beats on his Roland TR-909 drum machine as Allen hits cymbals and snares.
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