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Octave One: "Once we got the 909 I was hooked. That machine’s like a drug, I could listen to the kick for hours"

Your second Octave One album The Theory Of Everything seemed to pull away from techno and move more into rap/trip-hop territory. What motivated that change in your music? Lawrence: “We’d been playing ...
Metro Times

Octave One on twenty-six years of techno

Lawrence, left, and Lenny Burden, of Octave One. Credit: Marie Staggat The origins of Octave One —primarily Lenny and Lawrence Burden, but initially a band of brothers that included Lorne, Lynell, and ...
Mixmag

Check out this footage of Octave One performing alongside an orchestra

Prolific Detroit brothers Octave One have been responsible for producing some of the finest tracks in techno over the past two decades. Their 2000 single 'Black Water' has sold over one million copies ...
The Sun

Octave One: ”Detroit forced us to develop our own sound and style”

Motor City electronic pioneers, Octave One discussed their fifth studio album 'Burn It down' in this Clubz Classic interview originally published on May 24, 2015 DETROIT is synonymous with electronic ...
Mixmag

Octave One

Musical history has been punctuated by gifted families. Motown had the Jacksons, surf-pop has the Wilsons, hard rock has the Van Halens, and techno has the Burdens. Brothers Lenny and Lawrence Burden ...
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Octave One: "Once we got the 909 I was hooked. That machine’s like a drug, I could listen to the kick for hours"

Despite diverging from their techno roots, Octave One tell Danny Turner they’d sooner stop making music than sell their Roland TR-909 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...