Blake Baxter
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Blake Baxter is an American techno
musician, associated with the first wave of Detroit techno
. Allmusic called him "perhaps the most underrated figure" of the early Detroit techno scene.
Baxter first began DJing in the middle of the 1980s. His first release was issued by Chicago label DJ International, which was followed by several singles on KMS Records, run by Kevin Saunderson
. He worked extensively with Underground Resistance
in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and had several of his productions featured on the Techno: The New Dance Sound of Detroit compilation. Around 1990 he began recording for Incognito Records, who released his debut full-length, The Underground Lives.
After moving to Berlin
, he released "Brothers Gonna Work it Out", a track based on Willie Hutch
's 1973 eponymous release, which was later sampled by The Chemical Brothers
. Additionally, he worked with Orlando Voorn
as The Ghetto Brothers. After returning to Detroit, he set up the labels Mix Records and Phat Joint.
EP Frequencies
◄ (2 versions) Tresor 2000
EP Frequencies (12", EP, W/Lbl, Promo, P/Mixed) Tresor 2000
EP Frequencies (12", EP) Tresor 2000
FM Disko
(12", Promo) Tresor 2001
FM Disko
(12") Tresor 2001
Deep N Da Groove (Remix)
(12") Tresor 2002
Sexuality (Remixes)
(12") Sonic Groove 2002
Poetry And Rhythm Session Two
◄ (2 versions) Mix Records 2004
Poetry And Rhythm Session Two (12", W/Lbl, Promo) Mix Records 2004
Poetry And Rhythm Session Two (12") Mix Records 2004
Poetry And Rhythm Session One
◄ (2 versions) Mix Records 2004
Session One (12", W/Lbl) Mix Records 2004
Poetry And Rhythm Session One (12") Mix Records 2004
Sexuality 2004
◄ (2 versions) Sonic Groove 2004
Sexuality 2004 (12", W/Lbl, Promo) Sonic Groove 2004
Sexuality 2004 (12") Sonic Groove 2004
Juan Atkins / Blake Baxter - Coke DJ-Culture ◄ (2 versions)
Not On Label (Coke DJ-Culture Series) 2005
Coke DJ-Culture Remix By Juan Atkins / Blake Baxter (12", Promo) Not On Label (Coke DJ-Culture Series) 2005
Coke DJ-Culture (CD, Maxi, Promo) Not On Label (Coke DJ-Culture Series) 2005
Tomi D. Feat. Blake Baxter - Dimensions 1 - EP ◄ (2 versions)
Mix Records 2005
Dimensions 1 - EP (12", EP, W/Lbl) Mix Records 2005
Dimensions 1 - EP (12", EP) Mix Records 2005
Trevor Rockcliffe feat. Blake Baxter - Relax EP (12", EP)
Mentor 2005
Our Luv
(12", S/Sided, RE, RM) Decks Classix 2009
Abe Duque Featuring Blake Baxter - Don't Be So Mean Part 4 (12")
Abe Duque Records 2009
Blake Techno!
◄ (2 versions) Red-Zone Recordings Unknown
Blake Techno! (12") Red-Zone Recordings Unknown
Blake Techno! (12") Red-Zone Recordings Unknown
Teknotika & Blake Baxter - Three Cuts ◄ (3 versions)
Mix Records Unknown
Three Cuts (12", MP) Mix Records Unknown
Three Cuts (12", W/Lbl) Mix Records Unknown
Three Cuts (12") Mix Records Unknown
Untitled
(12", W/Lbl) Fat Joint Unknown
Untitled
(12") Not On Label Unknown
Abe Duque Feat. Blake Baxter - Lets Take It Back ◄ (2 versions)
Abe Duque Records 2009
Lets Take It Back (12", Etch) Abe Duque Records 2009
Let's Take It Back (4xFile, MP3) Process Recordings 2009
Abe Duque feat. Blake Baxter - What Happened? ◄ (3 versions)
Process Recordings 2009
What Happened? (CDr, Single) Process Recordings 2009
What Happened? (3xFile, MP3) Process Recordings 2009
What Happened? - Part 2 (4xFile, MP3) Process Recordings 2010
Psycatron Feat. Blake Baxter - She Is Music ◄ (3 versions)
Planet E, Guilty Pleasures 2010
She Is Music (12", W/Lbl) Planet E, Guilty Pleasures 2010
She Is Music (12") Planet E, Guilty Pleasures 2010
She Is Music (Part 2) (2xFile, MP3, 320) Planet E 2011
Black Art Music* Featuring Blake Baxter - Afro Acid ◄ (2 versions)
Moods & Grooves 2011
Afro Acid (3xFile, MP3, 320) Moods & Grooves 2010
Afro Acid (12") Moods & Grooves 2011
Joey Beltram vs Blake Baxter - Live At Tressor Tour In Germany (Cass, Mixed, Promo, RE, Chr)
Sole Unlimited Unknown
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
musician, associated with the first wave of Detroit techno
Detroit techno
Detroit techno is an early style of electronic music beginning in the 1980s. Detroit, Michigan has been cited as the birthplace of techno music. Prominent Detroit Techno artists include Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson...
. Allmusic called him "perhaps the most underrated figure" of the early Detroit techno scene.
Baxter first began DJing in the middle of the 1980s. His first release was issued by Chicago label DJ International, which was followed by several singles on KMS Records, run by Kevin Saunderson
Kevin Saunderson
Kevin Saunderson is an American electronic music producer. At the age of nine he moved to Belleville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit where he attended Belleville High School and befriended two students, Derrick May and Juan Atkins...
. He worked extensively with Underground Resistance
Underground Resistance
Underground Resistance is a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. They are the most militantly political example of modern Detroit Techno, with a grungy, four-track musical aesthetic and a strictly anti-mainstream business strategy...
in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and had several of his productions featured on the Techno: The New Dance Sound of Detroit compilation. Around 1990 he began recording for Incognito Records, who released his debut full-length, The Underground Lives.
After moving to Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, he released "Brothers Gonna Work it Out", a track based on Willie Hutch
Willie Hutch
Willie McKinley Hutchison, known professionally as Willie Hutch was an American singer, songwriter as well as a record producer and recording artist for the Motown record label during the 1970s and 1980s....
's 1973 eponymous release, which was later sampled by The Chemical Brothers
The Chemical Brothers
The Chemical Brothers are a British electronic music duo comprising Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. Originating in Manchester in 1991, along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture.- Background...
. Additionally, he worked with Orlando Voorn
Orlando Voorn
Orlando Voorn is a Dutch DJ and electronic music producer. As a solo artist he has released work since the early 80s under a large amount of aliases containing Balance, Frequency, Baruka, Basic Bastard, Fix, Dope Dog, Boy, Stalker and The Nighttripper...
as The Ghetto Brothers. After returning to Detroit, he set up the labels Mix Records and Phat Joint.
Discography
- The Crimes of the Heart EP (Incognito Records, 1990)
- The Underground Lives (Incognito, 1990)
- The Project (1992)
- The Vault (Disko B, 1995)
- The H Factor (Hurricane Melt (Disko B, 1997)
- A Decade Underground (Tresor Records, 1998)
- Dream Sequence (Tresor, 2000)
- Dream Sequence 3 (Tresor, 2001)
EP Frequencies
◄ (2 versions) Tresor 2000
EP Frequencies (12", EP, W/Lbl, Promo, P/Mixed) Tresor 2000
EP Frequencies (12", EP) Tresor 2000
FM Disko
(12", Promo) Tresor 2001
FM Disko
(12") Tresor 2001
Deep N Da Groove (Remix)
(12") Tresor 2002
Sexuality (Remixes)
(12") Sonic Groove 2002
Poetry And Rhythm Session Two
◄ (2 versions) Mix Records 2004
Poetry And Rhythm Session Two (12", W/Lbl, Promo) Mix Records 2004
Poetry And Rhythm Session Two (12") Mix Records 2004
Poetry And Rhythm Session One
◄ (2 versions) Mix Records 2004
Session One (12", W/Lbl) Mix Records 2004
Poetry And Rhythm Session One (12") Mix Records 2004
Sexuality 2004
◄ (2 versions) Sonic Groove 2004
Sexuality 2004 (12", W/Lbl, Promo) Sonic Groove 2004
Sexuality 2004 (12") Sonic Groove 2004
Juan Atkins / Blake Baxter - Coke DJ-Culture ◄ (2 versions)
Not On Label (Coke DJ-Culture Series) 2005
Coke DJ-Culture Remix By Juan Atkins / Blake Baxter (12", Promo) Not On Label (Coke DJ-Culture Series) 2005
Coke DJ-Culture (CD, Maxi, Promo) Not On Label (Coke DJ-Culture Series) 2005
Tomi D. Feat. Blake Baxter - Dimensions 1 - EP ◄ (2 versions)
Mix Records 2005
Dimensions 1 - EP (12", EP, W/Lbl) Mix Records 2005
Dimensions 1 - EP (12", EP) Mix Records 2005
Trevor Rockcliffe feat. Blake Baxter - Relax EP (12", EP)
Mentor 2005
Our Luv
(12", S/Sided, RE, RM) Decks Classix 2009
Abe Duque Featuring Blake Baxter - Don't Be So Mean Part 4 (12")
Abe Duque Records 2009
Blake Techno!
◄ (2 versions) Red-Zone Recordings Unknown
Blake Techno! (12") Red-Zone Recordings Unknown
Blake Techno! (12") Red-Zone Recordings Unknown
Teknotika & Blake Baxter - Three Cuts ◄ (3 versions)
Mix Records Unknown
Three Cuts (12", MP) Mix Records Unknown
Three Cuts (12", W/Lbl) Mix Records Unknown
Three Cuts (12") Mix Records Unknown
Untitled
(12", W/Lbl) Fat Joint Unknown
Untitled
(12") Not On Label Unknown
Abe Duque Feat. Blake Baxter - Lets Take It Back ◄ (2 versions)
Abe Duque Records 2009
Lets Take It Back (12", Etch) Abe Duque Records 2009
Let's Take It Back (4xFile, MP3) Process Recordings 2009
Abe Duque feat. Blake Baxter - What Happened? ◄ (3 versions)
Process Recordings 2009
What Happened? (CDr, Single) Process Recordings 2009
What Happened? (3xFile, MP3) Process Recordings 2009
What Happened? - Part 2 (4xFile, MP3) Process Recordings 2010
Psycatron Feat. Blake Baxter - She Is Music ◄ (3 versions)
Planet E, Guilty Pleasures 2010
She Is Music (12", W/Lbl) Planet E, Guilty Pleasures 2010
She Is Music (12") Planet E, Guilty Pleasures 2010
She Is Music (Part 2) (2xFile, MP3, 320) Planet E 2011
Black Art Music* Featuring Blake Baxter - Afro Acid ◄ (2 versions)
Moods & Grooves 2011
Afro Acid (3xFile, MP3, 320) Moods & Grooves 2010
Afro Acid (12") Moods & Grooves 2011
Joey Beltram vs Blake Baxter - Live At Tressor Tour In Germany (Cass, Mixed, Promo, RE, Chr)
Sole Unlimited Unknown
External links
- Blake Baxter discography at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
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