Ferndale resident chronicled the growth of the electronic music scene in Detroit before the Movement was even a thought.
Music journalist and Ferndale resident Dan Sicko, a key figure in the local electronic music scene, died Sunday after a years-long battle with cancer. He was 42. Sicko wrote Techno Rebels, released in 1999, about Detroit's dance music movement. To this day, the book remains the scene's defining publication, according to URB magazine, an independent music magazine. "... he was the first guy who legitimized Detroit's techno history," Jason Huvaere, director of Movement: Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, told the Free Press on Sunday. "Now, the world is drowning in Detroit techno coverage. But before that, there was Dan, who not only understood the history of the city and electronic music, but he was the historian who put it all down on …
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Dan Sicko's visitation will be 2-9 p.m. Wednesday.
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Services for Dan Sicko will take place at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
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The Movement Electronic Music Festival, which brought nearly 100,000 people to Detroit last year, is organized and promoted out of a small building on Hilton Road in Ferndale.
Nearly 100,000 people attended the Movement Electronic Music Festival last year at Detroit's Hart Plaza. And there is a good chance 99 percent of them had no idea that this enormous international music festival was planned in a little, nondescript building at the corner of Hilton and Camden in Ferndale. This building is the headquarters of Paxahau Promotions, the promotions and production company that organizes and promotes the Movement festival. This Ferndale-based company took over Detroit's annual Memorial Day weekend electronic music festival in 2006, putting on the 2007 festival. Prior to that, the festival, which started in 2000 and originally was called the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF), had been under different promotion…
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Cara I. Belton
11:08 pm on Monday, August 29, 2011
I had the pleasure of working with Dan when the revised edition of Techno Rebels was released. As a publicist, I meet many talented individuals, and Dan was definately one to remember. He had a passion for life and of course, music. Even if you weren't a fan of the music genre he so eloquently shared with his readers, Dan made the music come alive with each word. My condolences to his family and … more ›