Blog: PopMatters

The legendary house and techno pioneer deserves a proper career retrospective, but this isn't it. Take any contemporary music labeled "house" or "techno", and you can trace a line from it back to Kevin Saunderson. As part of the duo Inner City and with Derrick May and Juan Atkins, Saunderson was a creator of the classic Detroit Techno sound. This two-disc set attempts to pay homage to Saunderson's 20-year career. You get one disc of vintage Saunderson remixes. That's good. The man puts his punishing hi-hats and Roland 909 snares to work for everyone from Pet Shop Boys to [...]