01 May 2008 Newsletter 0805.1 Have trouble viewing this newsletter? View it on the web Model 500: Remake/remodel Thomas Cox heads to the D to check under the hood of the new live incarnation of Model 500. Revolutions begin in Detroit. Almost exactly a hundred years ago, the first Model T rolled off Ford's assembly line in Highland Park, forever changing the way automobiles were manufactured. Ford's main innovation, the assembly line, would eventually be adopted across the United States and Europe, and the result was an unprecedented explosion in manufacturing, as well as international recognition for Detroit as the automotive capital of the world. Two decades ago it happened again, but this time the upheaval was musical. In 1985 Juan Atkins released the first record on his fledgling label Metroplex, 'No UFO's', now widely regarded as Year Zero of the techno movement. Like Ford's Model T, the impact of these new machine rhythms was global, hitting especially hard in Europe, where techno subsequently developed into a mass cultural phenomenon. Continue reading: Model 500 - Remake/remodel 2 days 23 hrs ago  /  1 Comment Synch Festival hits Athens Greece's premier forward-thinking festival features dubstep, techno, rock and more in 2008. More › 1 day 7 hrs ago  /  1 Comment Alter Ego remixed on What's Next?! Supermayer, Modeselektor, Tiga and more remix Alter Ego’s 2007 album Why Not?!. More › 2 days 1 hrs ago  /  3 Comments Soulwax DVD: Part of the Weekend Never Dies Belgium dance-rock collective Soulwax will release a documentary Part of the Weekend Never Dies on DVD this summer. More › Mon, 28 Apr 2008  /  1 Comment Highgrade turns 50 Tom Clark's Highgrade Records celebrates fifty releases this month with a label compilation Our Thing. More › 1 day 5 hrs ago  /  8 Comments Buzzin' Fly turns five Ben Watt’s Buzzin' Fly label celebrates five years with a triple CD pack 5 Golden Years in the Wilderness. More › 19 hrs 21 mins ago  /  4 Comments Palette reaches 50 with new John Tejada LP Palette Recordings celebrates fifty releases with a full-lengther Where from head honcho John Tejada. More › 6 hrs 21 mins ago  /  7 Comments Mountain People headline Secretsundaze Swiss tag team The Mountain People launch Smith & Priestley's 2008 season of parties in London this weekend. More › 1 day 6 hrs ago  /  Post a comment ClubClass's big weekend Maidstone night ClubClass are hosting the afters for BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend next month. More › Latest News / Interviews / The Feed Portishead - Third on Mercury When a band reunite with its fan base after an eleven-year hiatus, it feels a bit, for everyone involved, like sleeping.. More › Butane - Becoming on Alphahouse Butane is Andrew Rasse. He’s been DJing since 2002, and releasing records on Dumb-Unit, his own label Alphahouse and oth.. More › Jackmate - Mont Blanc on Phil e It might seem counter-intuitive to call Michel Baumann a quiet achiever, considering the intensity of his work as Jackma.. More › Henrik Schwarz & Amampondo - I Exist Because Of You Versions on Innervisions “Tribal” has got to be one of the stupidest adjectives in common usage. Which tribe exactly? And why do they all have ug.. More › Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive on Permanent Vacation There’s something fantastic about Sally Shapiro’s love-heart lullabies. There’s also a lot that’s phantasmic about her:.. More › Alton Miller - Full Circle on Yore Records Alton Miller has been peddling his smooth deep house grooves since the early 90s on a list of labels that read like a wh.. More › Latest Reviews / Record Labels RA Podcast / DJ Pages / DJ Charts mulletover and RA go to Brazil at Hewitt Street Car Park, London Error_ with Matthias Tanzmann at Cosmic Ballroom, North One Step Beyond: Matthew Dear and Ambivalent at American Museum Of Natural History, New York Kraftwerk at The Fillmore, Colorado You are subscribed to the RA Newsletter. To remove yourself simply update your subscription options. Alternatively, if you have been forwarded the RA Newsletter and would like to receive it direct register yourself today. Copyright 2007 © Resident Advisor Ltd. All rights reserved. Advertise / Contact / Get involved / Submit event