Octave One

One of the more anachronistic teams in the Detroit techno underground, Octave One's rough-and-tumble production values gel with most Motor City crews. However, for the Burden brothers -- Lawrence and Lenny, joined on and off by Lynell, Lorne, and Lance -- the focus is completely on music with little political or social aesthetics behind their tracks. Lawrence Burden began DJ'ing in 1987 in a collective named VLE Nu AGE, then recorded a single in 1989 with the help of Lenny and Lynell plus Anthony Shakir, Jay Denham, and Juan Atkins. Originally released on Derrick May's Trans...