One of techno’s true underground heroes, Function, real name Dave Sumner, has been DJing and making music for over 15 years. Hailing from New York, he was seduced by techno music when Jeff Mills held a residency (as well as his own first) at the Limelight in the early 90s. Dave started to produce music and from the mid-90s onwards, put out music on Damon Wild’s Synewave and his own infrastructure imprint. Together with Karl O’Connor aka Regis he worked as Portion Reform, putting out uncompromising music on Downwards and becoming the only non-Birmingham producer to release on the label. More recently, Dave moved to Berlin and, still working with O’Connor, set up the acclaimed Sandwell District imprint.

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Saturday, May 28th CLR heads to Motor City for an official Movement Afterparty with a world-class line-up. 5 DJs will be taking over 2 floors of Elysium nightclub for a night of pure underground Techno Music. The lineup includes Chris Liebing and Speedy J teaming up for their Collabs project, Radio Slave, Marcel Dettmann and Drumcell. More acts to be announced soon.

David Alvarado is one of Los Angeles’ most celebrated dance music figures. David broke onto the scene as a producer in 1993 with “Las Americas” on John Acquaviva’s Definitive Recordings. He went on to found Bomb Records, which would feature then up and coming artists Kenneth Grahm, Eddie Amador, and Derrick Carter. In the years since David’s been an in-demand DJ and producer, releasing music on such labels as Ovum, Ultra, Strictly Rhythm, Yoshi Toshi, Plastic City, Peace Frog, and most recently Historia y Violencia to name just a fraction. David continues to push and develop his sound for a new generation of electronic music fans.

A clash of the titans is heading to Los Angeles as ScionAV and Droid Behavior pack three of the biggest names in Detroit techno/house history into one night. Vintage house producer, known by many as Moodymann aka Kenny Dixon Jr., has carved out quite a niche for himself over the past fifteen years, sampling the likes of jazz, disco, funk, and soul and looping it up to create some of the best deep house tracks ever made.

Roberto Bosco is a young Italian producer with a short but highly impressive discography, spanning labels such as Samuel L. Session’s Klap Klap, Orlando Voorn’s Night Vision and Len Faki’s Figure. His release for Francois K’s Wave music took his career to another level, garnering the following praise from Francois himself. He describes Roberto’s music as “having an effortless quality; an almost dazzling sense of ease that masks a very strong foundation; a depth and musical maturity that belies his young age.”

Levon Vincent stands among techno and house music’s contemporary elite. For the last few years his work has been praised in techno and house circles for reinvigorating dance music with a fresh and innovative approach to all things deep and raw. His releases are without fail charted and licensed, while tracks like Air Raid (Ovum) and Late Night Jam (Ostgut) have become permanent anthems. He’s been a DJ since ’93 and works behind labels Deconstruct and Novel Sound. Join us as Levon Vincent drops a two hour set at PRIME and demonstrates why is in demand the world over.

A technical radio DJ in 1980s Detroit, “The Wizard” went on to found Underground Resistance with Mike Banks, then moved on to found Axis and define his own aesthetic of minimal futurism, directing the future of techno production and mixing. His “Live at the Liquid Room” Mix-up release is a techno milestone. He’s scored films and worked with orchestral musicians to reinterpret his own tracks. Mills’ sets are known for his aggressive and daring Detroit-style mixing, legendary 909 improvisations, and constant exploration of the unknown. As always, Droid residents Raíz will set the stage properly for their contemporaries and influences.