{"id":8600,"date":"2017-08-25T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2017-09-12T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:47:48","slug":"aphex-technical-equipment-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/25\/aphex-technical-equipment-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Aphex Technical Equipment Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/therecord\/2017\/08\/04\/540668234\/how-a-small-town-record-store-quietly-released-an-exclusive-aphex-twin-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from NPR<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>How A Small Town Record Store Quietly Released An Exclusive Aphex Twin Record<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"contentsubtitle\">Working away from a cultural capital comes with significant upsides.<\/h2>\n<p>by\u00a0SCOTT STERLING<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GY1FAmqEh6Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well beyond the obvious tropes of Motown, techno and hip-hop icons, evidence of metropolitan Detroit&#8217;s reputation as a music city could historically be found within the confines of its record stores. Legendary and sadly long-gone record shops in and around the city were often nearly as important and influential as the music sold in them.<\/p>\n<p>Today, a new crop of budding independent record stores is taking the torch for new and innovative music in southeastern Michigan, none more interestingly than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technicalequipmentsupply.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technical Equipment Supply<\/a>, which recently made its home in an unlikely place.<\/p>\n<p>Ypsilanti, Mich., is a small Midwestern town of less than 23,000 residents, 36 miles from Detroit and situated just a few miles east of Ann Arbor. &#8220;Ypsi&#8221; still retains much of it&#8217;s mid-20th century charm, and has yet to get caught up in the waves of gentrification sweeping cities across America, primarily in what&#8217;s known \u2014 both positively and derisively, depending on who&#8217;s doing the talking \u2014 as &#8220;New&#8221; Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/therecord\/2017\/08\/04\/540668234\/how-a-small-town-record-store-quietly-released-an-exclusive-aphex-twin-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to read full article at NPR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NPR How A Small Town Record Store Quietly Released An Exclusive Aphex Twin Record Working away from a cultural capital comes with significant upsides. by\u00a0SCOTT STERLING Well beyond the obvious tropes of Motown, techno and hip-hop icons, evidence of metropolitan Detroit&#8217;s reputation as a music city could historically be found within the confines of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}