The first snippets of Detroit Heat appeared in mind-March and already caused us to sit up and take notice: apparently, this guy knows how to sum up the full essence of American House- and Techno-music in a very impressive, yet understandable way. Exclusively analog, deep, dark and so very pointedly funky. It’s bumpy, dodgy, mechanically stable, rough, robust, wild and furrowed, in short: it’s one rugged album. But even the sum of all these attributes can only hint at the genius of creation deriving from the machines of Motor City here. Last year, Big Strick already attracted attention by two singles released on his cousin’s label FXHE. On his very own Imprint 7 Days, he now (in his mid-forties, almost considered one of the ‘elderly’) comes up with a debut which suggests that he’s studied Detroit-Techno/House all his life and is now finally ready to finish his work and cast it in polyvinyl chloride. Summa cum laude, the Detroit Way, but also: »A family thing«. The family’s inner cohesion is channeled into creative agility and becomes manifest in collective tracks with his son Lil Strick, his Cousin Tony or the Cousin already mentioned: Omar-S. An inexplicable album, which even makes his colleague Aigner, who’s never short of a comment, having to admit: »I’m just listening to Big Strick on my headphones with some totally authentic rustling of vinyl and i have to say: Where do these boys get their calm from? Having it stomp on for five minutes without even a snare, and yet: uber-magic! «
Detroit Heat
