Episode 8 –Eddie Fowlkes - Something Special E

It’s 1978, and the mother of local Detroit teenager, Eddie Fowlkes, is insisting that he attends a dance party tonight in order to accompany his sisters who are going. Much of Fowlkes’s attention goes to football at the time, however that will all change after this evening. At this event he encounters a style of music being played, which people refer to as progressive, that captures his imagination due to its one continuous flow from the beginning to the end of the dj’s set. In the near future, this music will inspire Fowlkes, and his peers, to create a new kind of progressive sound, called techno. Fowlkes will end up developing his own version of techno for decades, contributing several genre-defining tracks, such as “Something Special E”.