A moment from NABZ set for Return Radio Episode #01 Motor City 🖤
Track ID: Quetzel - @loshermanosdetroit x What a Friend - @floorplan_music
Full mix now on Soundcloud! Link in bio 🩶
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Just a little cut from the Return Radio mix w/ NOS-talgia🔊
Detroit grooves in full effect, full mix coming your way soon!
Track ids:
Earth - Cybotron x The Deal - Floorplan
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💥 Detroit Women Who Made Music History 💥
These are some of the women that were shaping techno and house music, its sound, running labels, and breaking barriers in clubs and on the radio.
🎧 K-HAND – Inspired by the legendary Paradise Garage, where she soaked up Larry Levan’s sets as a teen, she founded Acacia Records and released tracks like “Think About It” in 1990. The Detroit City Council honored her as the First Lady of Detroit Techno, and she toured internationally, putting Detroit’s sound on the global map.
🎚️ DJ Minx – Inspired by Derrick May, she created Women on Wax in the 90s, building a platform for women DJs and producers. Her track “A Walk in the Park” became an underground classic, remixed by Moodymann and Richie Hawtin. Recognized as the First Lady of Wax, she continues to tour worldwide.
🎙️ Stacey “Hotwaxx” Hale – The first woman to play house on Detroit radio, she blends house, techno, funk, hip-hop, and Motown soul into every set, keeping the city’s dance floors alive for decades. Her influence earned her the title Godmother of House in Detroit.
🎛️ DJ Cent – A club and radio veteran, DJ Cent performed at iconic Detroit venues while archiving the city’s rich musical history. Her sets combine soulful house, deep vocals, and gospel-infused rhythms, passing Detroit’s legacy to the next generation.
💜 These women are not just DJs and Producers, they’re innovators, and pioneers who laid the foundation for Detroit techno and house. Their music and influence continue to shape dance floors around the world.
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Techno was born in Detroit in the late 1980s. Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, the Belleville Three, fused funk, electro, and machine rhythms into a futuristic new sound. Also known as high tech soul.⚡
As Detroit pressed its first records, tracks like Derrick May’s ‘Strings of Life’ and Kevin Saunderson’s Inner City hits spread across the UK and Europe. DJs and import shops carried these vinyl exports overseas, inspiring a new wave of underground culture.
By the early 1990s, artists like Jeff Mills, Mad Mike Banks, Robert Hood, Blake Baxter, Carl Craig, and Eddie Fowlkes traveled to Europe, linking with Berlin’s Tresor club and label. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, abandoned warehouses became free spaces where Detroit’s machine soul collided with Berlin’s raw energy.
Women also shaped Detroit’s story. K-Hand, DJ Cent, and DJ Minx pushed the sound forward, with K-Hand recognized as the ‘First Lady of Detroit Techno’ and the first woman signed to Tresor.
From Detroit to Berlin, techno grew into a global movement, uniting dancefloors across continents, forever evolving while rooted in its origins. 🌍
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We’re excited to announce the launch of Return Radio 📻🌐
We’ll be diving deep into house + techno, stories hidden in the grooves, voices carried through the underground into the future🔊
It all began in Detroit at Movement Festival, a spark that turned into a calling... this spark is now becoming a frequency ✨️
First live transmission:Saturday September 20th 2025
Tune in if you know, return if you feel.
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