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CONTEST: Win Tickets To See Claude VonStroke and Audion at Avalon Hollywood Tomm Night!

When most people hear the word "techno" the image of beefcakes touting whistles and razorshades is the first thing that comes to mind. It's a shame, really, because the first thing that should pop into their heads is Detroit. Although lately the Motor City has become infamous as a crime center, America's most diverse musical metropolis (Parliament, Bob Seger, Motown, Eminem, Stooges, etc.) gave birth to the computer-driven sound in the ’80s and continues to nurture the genre with things like the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.

Two of RCRD LBL's partners have strong ties to the five-million-strong city and as it turns out both are coming together this Saturday in Los Angeles. This is your chance to get on the guestlist. Matthew Dear (aka Audion) and Claude VonStroke play Avalon Hollywood together and rep Detroit hard. Dear records for the Ghostly label, whose headquarters are in neighboring Ann Arbor, while VonStroke is from the city and became a legit global superstar when his 2006 track "Who's Afraid of Detroit" was named best track of the year by Richie Hawtin (who, as it turns out, also is a Detroit legend).

The opening set comes courtesy of Clark Werner, who himself worked in Detroit, for Hawtin's pioneering minimal label M_Nus. So Motown is coming correct to Lalaland and it will be a blast.

If you'd like to get a pair of VIP ticktes for the show, email us at info at rcrdlbl.com by 5PM EST tomm with "Contest" in the subject line and we'll pick two lucky winners to receive a pair each.

Good luck!

Thanks to Avalon, dirtybird and Ghostly for hooking this up.

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