March 21st 2024
Elijah Underhill-Miller, Michigan Electronic Music Collective (MEMCO)

We are excited to present an exclusive screening and promotional initiative around the recently completed - 12 years in the making - and not publicly accessible groundbreaking documentary God Said Give Em Drum Machines (2022) (GSGEDM). This premiere was hosted in collaboration with 48 Frames and the Black Film Society, both University of Michigan student organizations. Our special screening was followed up with a panel discussion and q+a session featuring individuals in the film, contemporary artists inspired to speak on the topic, and a concluding nighttime event featuring an all-Black DJ lineup headlining one of stars of the film who are still performing today. Through this Black History Month event series, MEMCO, 48 Frames, and BFS worked with GSGEDM to elevate this history in Ann Arbor and at the University of Michigan, and furthermore engage with underground electronic music history in a multidimensional way.

February 16th 2024
Madeline Miclea, MEMCO

The Michigan Electronic Music Collective (MEMCO) is an entirely student-run collective of DJ’s, producers, visual artists, engineers, and event-goers that provides a platform in Ann Arbor for electronic music and its subgenres. This spring, we hosted our biggest event of the year, a celebration of Black History Month as an homage to the cultural roots of Detroit techno genre. Our celebration took shape into 2 phases: a daytime conformance and a nighttime DJ exhibition.

September 30th 2023
Bianca Trihenea, MEMCO

Memco’s monthly IMPULSE series started off the 23-24 school year with a Bang!! We started with our most popular theme “What the FUNK”, and booked celebrated Detroit house DJ Stacey Hottwaxx Hale to perform for the two hour peak. The party was opened and closed by UofM student DJ performances. Our IMPULSE events allow amateur student DJs to experience what it’s like to perform in a legitimate club, while drawing out artistically conscious and open-minded students who would rather not crowd in a stranger’s basement for some weekend fun.

November 20th 2021
MEMCO

MEMCO hosted a 5-hour live DJ event hosted at Club Above, a local 18+ Ann Arbor music venue. They collaborated with fellow on-campus organizations such as Maize Collective and WCBN FM to bring out special guest DJ Shigeto. Shigeto is an internationally acclaimed electronic producer, DJ, and drummer from Ann Arbor. All proceeds from the event went to Groundcover, a non-profit that aims to create opportunity and a voice for low-income people while taking action to end homelessness and poverty.

May 1st 2021
Akshay Chacko, Michigan Electronic Music Collective (MEMCO)

In place of their usual in-person events, MEMCO partnered with River Beats to present Enter the Oasis, a 6-hour DJ livestream hosted on Twitch centered on mental health advocacy and resources. The event also featured a series of pre-stream workshops focused on self-care, as well as one introducing the basics of music production as a means of creative expression. All proceeds went to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

February 16th 2020
Jordan Stanton, MEMCO

To accompany their annual black history month party, MEMCO hosted a 2-hour speaker event in accordance with the party to delve deeper into the party's themes of music, community, and DIY activism. Guest speakers included Stacey Hotwaxx (the local DJ and activist behind Sheometry Music Festival in Detroit), “Mad Mike” Banks (DJ and cofounder of Detroit’s notorious Underground Resistance group), and Ron Johnson (owner of Spin Inc).

November 22nd 2019
Jordan Stanton, Michigan Electronic Music Collective (MEMCO)

This event was a 5-hour live DJ event hosted at Club Above, an Ann Arbor music venue. MEMCO collaborated with fellow on campus music orgs (Maize Collective and WCBN FM) to bring out a special guest, DJ Minx. Minx is an internationally acclaimed techno and house DJ hailing from Detroit. She played the first ever Detroit Electronic Music Festival (now called Movement), established female DJ label Women on Wax, and has gone on to play clubs and festivals around the world.

March 30th 2019
MEMCO

MEMCO organized a 4-hour live DJ event hosted at Club Above, a local 18+ Ann Arbor music venue. The event was MEMCO's first step in collaborating with and promoting internationally acclaimed DJs based in Ann Arbor. The line up featured Ectomorph, a live-duo comprised of two Detroit DJs (BMG and Erika - http://interdimensionaltransmissions.com/artists/ectomorph) in addition to MEMCO members. This event was a "special edition" of an ongoing series of monthly parties that MEMCO has been hosting at Club Above over the course of the year.

March 30th 2019
MEMCO

MEMCO organized a 4-hour live DJ event hosted at Club Above, a local 18+ Ann Arbor music venue. The event was MEMCO's first step in collaborating with and promoting internationally acclaimed DJs based in Ann Arbor. The line up featured Ectomorph, a live-duo comprised of two Detroit DJs (BMG and Erika - http://interdimensionaltransmissions.com/artists/ectomorph) in addition to MEMCO members. This event was a "special edition" of an ongoing series of monthly parties that MEMCO has been hosting at Club Above over the course of the year.

February 15th 2019
Michigan Electronic Music Collective

MEMCO put on a 5-hour live DJ event at Club Above, a local 18+ Ann Arbor music venue. The annual event serves as an homage to the roots of techno; It is typically overlooked that techno is a genre historically pioneered by black Detroit artists in the 80's. In honor of this, the show featured a full line up of black DJs including local professionals, DJ Holographic (https://www.djholographic.com) and Khlonez (https://soundcloud.com/khlonez) in addition to MEMCO members. A large portion (60%) of the proceeds were donated to a local non-profit.