Artist: DJ T-1000
Title: 'Welcome to Sub-Detroit'
Label: Pure Sonik Records

'Welcome to Sub-Detroit' is eight tracks of techno on Pure Sonik Records, which DJ T-1000 has run himself since 1996. He wrote it as a score, and that is not a one off for him either.

It is his third record of the year. 'Prisma EP' came in the spring, and before that 'Famous For Fifteen Minutes' went out under The Black Warhols, the post punk project he debuted this year. All of it sits on the same Bandcamp page as a catalogue going back decades.

The DJ T-1000 name came out of Underground Resistance. He took it when he joined the collective, toured Australia with them in 1992, and wrote the label's press releases while he was in it. The work before that was print: Fast Forward was his own zine, running from the late eighties.

The graphic novel is sold separately, and it is the part that gets the attention, so here it is. Forty eight pages, full colour, signed, shipping from Berlin. The story drops a new generation of Detroit techno renegades into an Old Detroit that sits under a floating city where the elites live, following their adventures.

The graphic novel is a sequel to '+PLUS8019', the promo comic he drew for Richie Hawtin's +8 Records in 1992. He has done the soundtrack and book pairing twice before with the 'Johnny Gambit' books.

Both elements of this release (the music and the art) took two years of lockdown. A Brussels label commissioned them and the arrangement fell through, so he produced the lot himself, credited with the concept, the art, the design and the music. The credits close on a line worth quoting: “Special thanks to no one, I did all this myself.”

If you want more from that corner of Detroit, Blake Baxter's 'One More Time' came through here recently, and Underground Resistance has him in its history too. The rest of what Oldham does, paintings included, is on his own site.

Out now. Bandcamp has the album, with the book as a separate order on the same page.