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Fanon Flowers Grew Up Listening To Detroit Techno And Chicago House Music Via Cassette Tapes Recorded Off The Radio From The Wizard Aka Jeff Mills In Detroit And DJ Farley Jackmaster Funk In Chicago. Fanon Flowers Pronounced Fuh-Nahn Is A Techno Music Producer And DJ Based In Los Angeles California. Fanon Was Born And Raised In Kalamazoo Michigan Exactly Halfway Between Detroit And Chicago The Birthplaces Of Techno And House Music. A Product Of His Environment Fanon Purchased A Roland SH-101 TB-303 TR-505 And TR-606 And Started Buying Techno 12" Records. Fanon Naturally Gravitated To The More Dominate Post-Industrial Machine Sounds Of Detroit Techno And Quickly Developed A Style Which Combined The Funky Dark Syncopated Rhythms Of Detroit Techno With The Raw Soul Of Acid House Music. After Meeting Carl Craig Through A Mutual Friend Flowers Began To Garner Attention In 1994 When He Appeared As Mode Selector On The "Elements Of And Experiments With Sound" Compilation On Detroit's Seminal Planet E Label. In 1996 Fanon Flowers Appeared Under His Mode Selector Alias On The "Detroit Beyond The Third Wave" Compilation.” Released On Astralwerks Records Flowers Appeared Alongside Detroit Techno Stalwarts Such As Terrance Dixon Claude Young DJ T-1000 Aka Alan Oldham Ectomorph And Anthony "Shake" Shakir. Also In 1996 Flowers Started His Own Techno Imprint Mechanisms Industries Distributed By Triple Vision Holland To Showcase His Unique And Mechanical Approach To Techno. With Over 60 Records Produced And Released On Various Labels Including Planet Rhythm Pole Group Warm Up TH Tar Hallow And Mind Trip. Currently Fanon Continues To Produce Music For His Own Label And Perform DJ’s Sets At European Venues. read less