Blake Baxter (born 1963) is an American

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musician, associated with the first wave of

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called him "perhaps the most underrated figure" of the early Detroit techno scene.John Bush,

Blake Baxter Blake Baxter (born 1963) is an American techno musician, associated with the first wave of Detroit techno. AllMusic called him "perhaps the most underrated figure" of the early Detroit techno scene.John Bush, Blake Baxterat AllMusic Baxter was bo ...

Baxter was born in

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, United States, and first began mixing records in the middle of the 1980s. Some of his first releases were recorded in Chicago on the label DJ International, which was later remixed and released in Detroit on the record label KMS Records, KMS-011, also in Detroit. He released music on the

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label, including an EP 12-inch vinyl ''The Prince of Techno'' UR-06 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He also had several of his productions featured on the ''

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'' compilation. Around 1989-92, he released three 12 inch records on Incognito Records. While touring in Germany in

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, he released ''One More Time'' on Tresor Records and " Brothers Gonna Work it Out" on Logic Records in Frankfurt; a track based on

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's 1973 eponymous release, which was later sampled by

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. After returning to Detroit, he set up the labels Mix Records and Phat Joint and opened a record store in downtown Detroit called Save the Vinyl from 1992 to 1999.

Discography

*''Work Jack Master 2'' compilation album DJ International Westside Records *''In This House We Jack Jack Master 4'' compilation album DJ International Westside Records *''When We Used to Play'' EP KMS Records, 1987 *"Forever and a day", ''

'' album compilation (Virgin 10 Records), 1988 *"Ride em Boy", ''Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit'' album compilation (Virgin 10 Records), 1988 *''Sexuality'' Incognito Records, 1989 *''The Crimes of the Heart'' EP Incognito Records, 1990 *''The Prince of Techno'' EP Underground Resistance Records, 1991 *''One More Time'' Tresor Records, 1992 *''Brothers Gonna Work it Out'' Logic Records, 1993 *''The Vault'' (Disko B, 1995) *''The H Factor (Hurricane Melt)'' (Disko B, 1997) *''A Decade Underground DJ Mix'' (

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, 1998) *''Dream Sequence'' (Tresor, 2000) *''Dream Sequence 3'' (Tresor, 2001)

References

External links

Blake Baxter
discography at

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