Detroit Love [ Carl Craig | Moodymann | Byron The Aquarius]

Oct 25th, we are honored to host Detroit Love for their debut in Baltimore !!! We are bringing the Motor city rawness to Dark Room for our favorite holiday of the year - Halloween. The founder of Detroit Love, Carl Craig, along with Moodymann, and Byron the Aquarius will be guiding us through the night with that Detroit goodness !!! Carl Craig .jpg A Grammy nominee, icon of electronic music, and the mind behind Detroit Love, Carl Craig’s illustrious discography helped to define and expand the sound of contemporary techno from its near-beginnings to the present day. He remains deeply involved in continuing Motown’s musical legacy, both with his events, his legendary Planet E imprint, and his continuing work as a producer, DJ, and an artist with 30+ years of classics under his belt both as a musician and a label head. Over the course of his long, storied career, he helped invent the sound of modern techno several times over, pioneering the 90s uptempo breakbeat sound of that era’s Detroit and then helping to usher in the next stage with his funkier, more stripped back work as Paperclip People, innovating by incorporating live jazz performance into Innerzone Orchestra, and more groundbreaking work under numerous other aliases in the decades since. Very much still a creative force to be reckoned with who maintains a nonstop international touring schedule, and his Baltimore debut is cause for celebration for house and techno heads regionwide. Moodymann.jpg Now an icon in his own right, Kenny Dixon Jr’s rise to house music superstardom was a slower road than most, beginning in 1994 with self-released 12s and emerging to greater recognition as Detroit house found its international following only years later in the 2010s. In the middle, Kenny released a nonstop string of classics for Peacefrog, Planet E, and his own Mahogani Music and KDJ imprints, plus collaborative work as a member of both 3 Chairs and Urban Tribe. One of house’s most distinctive artists both in image and sound, Moodymann is an avowed black rights activist and enforcer on the roots of house and techno. Taking cues from the Black Power movement and Detroit’s long history of black musical accomplishment - blues, jazz, Motown, soul, funk, hip hop, electro, house, and techno - he stews his unmissable message into his own funky brew, where clips of recontextualized classics rub shoulders with bold, innovative ideas only of his own invention. His second-ever Baltimore appearance after a 2022 Dark Room date is sure to be as revelatory as the first. Byron The Aquarius.jpeg One of the most illustrious of the younger generation of Detroit house artists, Byron the Aquarius made his recorded debut in 2007, but it took until 2016 for his career to begin in force, first on Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature then continuing without pause on a clutch of dance music’s best modern imprints: Axis, Wild Oats, Clone, Shall Not Fade, Apron, and more. Now with three full-lengths and numerous singles in his quickly-growing discography, his funky, jazz-inflected take on contemporary house music tells the story of Motown’s resilience in music as one of its most talented current exponents. With a few well-received appearances in DC amongst numerous club dates across the States mostly at more intimate venues, Dark Room is proud to debut him in Baltimore to show the renown local house crew what he can do. Please note this event will sell out. Costumes encouraged.