Blake Baxter

Blake Baxter is an American techno musician, associated with the first wave of Detroit techno artists. Allmusic called him "perhaps the most underrated figure" of the early Detroit techno scene. [John Bush, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wzftxqy5ld0e~T1 Blake Baxter] at Allmusic]

Baxter first began DJing in the middle of the 1980s. His first release was issued by Chicago label DJ International, which was followed by several singles on KMS Records, run by Kevin Saunderson. He worked extensively with Underground Resistance in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and had several of his productions featured on the "" compilation. Around 1990 he began recording for Incognito Records, who released his debut full-length, "The Underground Lives".

After moving to Berlin, he released "Brothers Gonna Work it Out", a track later sampled by The Chemical Brothers. Additionally, he worked with Orlando Voorn as The Ghetto Brothers. After returning to Detroit, he set up the labels Mix Records and Phat Joint.

Discography

*"The Crimes of the Heart" EP (Incognito Records, 1990)
*"The Underground Lives" (Incognito, 1990)
*"The Project" (1992)
*"The Vault" (Disko B, 1995)
*"The H Factor (Hurricane Melt" (Disko B, 1997)
*"A Decade Underground" (Tresor Records, 1998)
*"Dream Sequence" (Tresor, 2000)
*"Dream Sequence 3" (Tresor, 2001)

References

External links

* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Blake+Baxter Blake Baxter] discography at Discogs.