Keith Tucker

Keith Tucker Is An American Electronic Musician And DJ From Detroit Michigan. Career Tucker Began His Career Playing Cover Versions Of Juan Atkins’ Electro Hits From The 1980s With His Childhood Friend Tommy Hamilton. The Live Ensemble Achieved Local Renown For Combining Break-Dancing And Tucker's Mobile DJ-Ing While Manually Playing Repetitive High-Speed Synthesizer Basslines. They Later Became Known As Regime Then RX-7 And Finally In 1994 They Became Aux 88. They Were Joined By BJ Smith Posatronix And Lamont Norwood DJ Dijital . Tucker's First 12" EP Was A Collaboration With Juan Atkins And Jesse Anderson Under The Name “Frequency” In 1990. Aux 88 Released The Album "Bass Magnetic" And Were The First Group To Revive Electro In The Mid-To-Late 1990s. As Such They Have Been Credited With Eventually Inspiring The Genre Known As Electro-Clash. In The Mid-Nineteen Ninteties They Described Their Own Sound As Techno-Bass A Fusion Of Influences From Detroit Techno Electro Miami Bass And Trance. As Co-Founder Of Puzzlebox Recordings In 1996 With Anthony “Shake” Shakir Tucker Also Joined The Tradition Of Independent Dance Music Publishing And Vinyl Record Pressing In Detroit. He Utilized Along With Other Artists The National Sound Company Vinyl Lathe Which Was Used To Produce The Records Of Legendary Detroit Soul Labels Such As Motown. Music Among His Influences He Cites 1970s Funk Such As Parliament Kraftwerk And Classical Music Particularly Johann Sebastian Bach. The Distinction Of His Solo Work And Production Credits Is In Their Blending And Refinement Of Syncopated Minimalist Electro And Techno Rhythms Influenced By The Tonal Undulations Of Miami Bass And The Roland TR-808 Drum Machine. True To The Detroit Techno Tradition Tucker's Music Is Often Emotive Of A Machine-Like Consciousness And A Mental Imagery Of Solipsism Urban Alienation And Decay. This Is Often Expressed Masked Or Sublimated Through Metaphors Of High Technology Science Fiction And Space Travel And Conveyed Through Affected Analogue Synthesizer Timbres. This Harks Back To Kraftwerk's Description Of Their Music – “Electronic Blues Made With A Jazz Improvisation Technique.” read less