Blog: Acid Ted

Blake Baxter is another under-rated techno innovator from Detroit's first wave. Like Anthony 'Shake' Shakir (see previous post ), Baxter never got the recognition he deserved. He began recording in the mid-'80s before Motor City mainstays like Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. Presaging the influence of erotic house during the late '80s, he was inspired by Barry White and Prince as well as Parliament and Funkadelic. He released his first single on the seminal Chicago house label DJ International and recorded several classics for Saunderson's KMS Records, and by the [...]

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