Eddie "Flashin'" Fowlkes (b. 1962) is a techno

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...

 DJ from Detroit, Michigan

Michigan

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, influential to the early 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...

 scene.

Fowlkes began his career as a DJ in high school, and attended business college briefly before turning full-time to a career in music. He was a DJ at Detroit's Music Institute, and released his first record, the single "Goodbye Kiss", for Juan Atkins

Juan Atkins

Juan Atkins is an American musician. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music, specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson...

's label, Metroplex Records, in 1986. Later singles followed on KMS Records, 430 West, and Play it Again Sam

Play It Again Sam

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, before his debut full-length appeared in 1991.

As Detroit techno became the subject of more interest from European DJs and producers, Fowlkes signed with German label Tresor

Tresor

Tresor is an underground techno nightclub and record label. The club was founded in March 1991 in the vaults of the former old Wertheim department store in Mitte, the central part of the former East Berlin, next to the famous Potsdamer Platz, however the history of the club goes back to 1988 when...

, with whom he released several full-length albums. His only charting single in the U.S. was "Let Us Pray", which hit #21 on the U.S. Dance Club Play charts in 1995. Eddie is responsible, at least in part, for the techno act The Martian.

Releases

• EP (12") City Boy
• Night Creepin' (12") Simply Soul
• Goodbye Kiss (12") Metroplex 1986
• Get It Live / In The Mix (12") Metroplex 1987
• Goodbye Kiss (12") Macola Record Co. 1987
• Standing In The Rain (12") Spinnin' Records (US) 1989
• Detroit Techno Soul (12") M.I.D. Records (Made In Detroit) 1991
• Inequality (12") 430 West 1991
• Serious Techno Vol.1 (12") Lafayette 1991
• 3MB Featuring Eddie 'Flashin' Fowlkes (CD) Tresor
  Tresor
  Tresor is an underground techno nightclub and record label. The club was founded in March 1991 in the vaults of the former old Wertheim department store in Mitte, the central part of the former East Berlin, next to the famous Potsdamer Platz, however the history of the club goes back to 1988 when...
  
  1992
• 3MB Featuring Eddie 'Flashin' Fowlkes (2xLP) Tresor 1992
• Mad In Detroit! EP (12") United Recordings 1992
• Passion (12") Groove Kissing 1992
• The Feeling / F.F. In Crime (12") Groove Kissing 1992
• Time To Express (12") Lower East Side Records 1992
• Turn Me Out (12") M.I.D. Records (Made In Detroit) 1992
• I Wanna Know (12") Infonet 1993
• I Wanna Know (12") Infonet 1993
• I'm A Winner Not A Loser (12") Infonet 1993
• I'm A Winner Not A Loser (12") Infonet 1993
• Music In My Head / Macro (12") Pow Wow Records 1993
• One Dance / Stella (12") Global Cuts 1993
• The Birth Of Technosoul (CD) Tresor 1993
• The Birth Of Technosoul (2x12") Tresor 1993
• The Birth Of Technosoul (CD) Pow Wow Records 1993
• Warwick (12") Global Cuts 1993
• EP (12") City Boy 1994
• Let Us Pray (Limited Edition) (12") Bold ! Soul Records 1995
• Stella 2 (12") Peacefrog Records 1995
• The Truth EP (12") Back To Basics 1995
• Black Technosoul (CD) Tresor 1996
• Groovin / C.B.R (12") Tresor 1996
• City Dub 3 (12") City Boy 1997
• Deep Pit (CD5") Dance Pool 1997
• Deep Pit (12") Dance Pool 1997
• Soul Train (12") Paper Recordings 1998
• Oh Lord (12") Azuli Records 1999
• Angel In My Pocket (12") Undaground Therapy Muzik 2000
• Angel In My Pocket (2x12") Undaground Therapy Muzik 2000
• My Soul (Archiv #05) (12") Tresor 2002