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Detroit techno at Belleville
1981
Belleville, Michigan
formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Three school friends in a mostly white suburb, Atkins, May and Saunderson, built machine music out of Kraftwerk records and a local radio DJ's playlists. It was largely ignored at home and became the foundation of electronic dance music everywhere else.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: city-level
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