Manufacturing may have moved elsewhere but these soundtracks have kept Motor City the epicenter of music.

Detroit might’ve put the world on wheels, but it didn’t stop there—it also created the soundtrack to blast out of your car stereo. That’s the unique set of qualifications you’ve got to consider when putting together a soundtrack for the Motor City—a city so defined by an industrial product that homegrown techno pioneers cite the sound of factories around them as an influence in their music.

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