Episode 17 –DB-X - Bleep

It’s 1992, and you work at a local record store in Detroit, called Record Time. Your job mostly involves distributing the releases of local record labels, work you do from a small warehouse section of the store. Apparently a new guy, Daniel Bell, will be starting work at the store today. He’s involved in the local techno scene, and the little you know about him from his recorded output hasn’t impressed you. This is because the one or two tracks you’ve heard in which he’s been involved seem to be closer to a European rave soundtrack than to Detroit techno. Getting to know him as workmates will, however, change the impression you have of him, as he introduces you through tracks such as “Bleep”, to a newly emerging style of techno that he is instrumental in conceiving...