Gerald Donald is a 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...

 producer and artist. He is most famous for his work as Drexciya

Drexciya

Drexciya was an electronic music band from Detroit, Michigan. The late James Stinson was the only officially identified member of Drexciya, but it was considered an open secret that he had a partner, Gerald Donald.- Style :...

 with James Stinson

James Stinson

James Marcel Stinson was an electronic music producer from Detroit, Michigan. He is known for his contributions to electro and Detroit techno music....

. He is prolific and is involved in many groups and artists.

Arpanet

Arpanet is one of the pseudonyms of Gerald Donald. It was named after both ARPANET

ARPANET

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network , was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet...

 (one of the precursors to the internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

) and ARP Instruments

ARP Instruments, Inc.

ARP Instruments, Inc. was an American manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969. Best known for its line of synthesizers that emerged in the early 1970s, ARP closed its doors in 1981 due to financial difficulties...

, an early synthesizer company. Initially a suspected duo between Drexciya

Drexciya

Drexciya was an electronic music band from Detroit, Michigan. The late James Stinson was the only officially identified member of Drexciya, but it was considered an open secret that he had a partner, Gerald Donald.- Style :...

-frontmen James Stinson

James Stinson

James Marcel Stinson was an electronic music producer from Detroit, Michigan. He is known for his contributions to electro and Detroit techno music....

 and Gerald Donald, since Stinson's death in 2002, Arpanet is now firmly established as Gerald Donald alone.

Discography

• Wireless Internet (2002), Record Makers
• Quantum Transposition (2005), Rephlex
• Reference Frame (2006), Record Makers
• Inertial Frame (2006), Record Makers

Other groups

• Glass Domain
• Heinrich Mueller
• Intellitronic
• Japanese Telecom
• Abstract Thought
• Der Zyklus
• Dopplereffekt
  Dopplereffekt
  Dopplereffekt is an electronic music act which has been active since at least 1995 . It is named after the German word for the Doppler effect...
  
  
• Drexciya
  Drexciya
  Drexciya was an electronic music band from Detroit, Michigan. The late James Stinson was the only officially identified member of Drexciya, but it was considered an open secret that he had a partner, Gerald Donald.- Style :...
  
  
• Elecktroids
• Black Replica
• Zerkalo
• Zwischenwelt
• L.A.M. (Life After Mutation)
• Victoria Lukas
• Beta Evers
  Beta Evers
  Brigitte Enzler aka Beta Evers is a producer, songwriter and singer who has built up a cult following on the German underground Electro / Electronica / New Wave scene....
  
  
• Penélope Martín

As Heinrich Mueller, Donald has done remixes and appears as producer for several internet-projects, for example "Zerkalo", * Zwischenwelt and "black replica".

External links

• http://www.discogs.com/artist/Gerald+Donald
• http://www.drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.com/
• http://www.discogs.com/artist/Arpanet
• http://www.higher-frequency.com/e_review/original/arpanet/index.htm
• http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=8037