Stacey Pullen for Fabric

In the late 80's, Stacey Pullen was a club kid getting off on his city's past and present. A few years before, a small group of Detroit residents had pooled their money, knowledge and influences and created a new beat. It merged their industrial landscape's natural sounds with nu-school, European machine music like Kraftwerk, Soft Cell and Tangerine Dream.

It became synonymous with a futuristic mindset, a by-product of their tendency to stargaze and theorise. They wanted to create a fantasy environment in contrast to their humdrum existence, and did so by mis-using cheap, second-hand electronic equipment originally intended for rock musicians.

After a short break to complete his studies, Pullen became a DJ and then a producer. Eventually, he would move Detroit techno forward as purposefully as his mentors had designed it. On his first mix CD for 7 years, Stacey concentrates on white-knuckle entertainment: a full-on aural assault of red-hot sonic sparks.

Featuring Cutlab, spacey bongo, pure science, peace division, moodyman, dave angel, fabric 14 is out now through dmc distribution.
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