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DJ Bone

· techno DJ, producer, label owner

Detroit techno DJ famous for fierce, multi-deck sets, founder of the Subject Detroit label and a key resident at Motor in the late 1990s.

Birth name
Eric Dulan
Also known as
Eric Dulan
Detroit years
birth–present
Field
Music

01 / The Detroit story

The Detroit story

Eric Dulan, known as DJ Bone, is a Detroit techno DJ and producer who built his reputation behind the decks, playing fast, tightly cut sets often across three turntables. In the late 1990s he held an essential two-year residency at Motor in Hamtramck, which Metro Times credited with turning the club from a swanky lounge into the city's dance-hungry center of techno. In 1998 he founded his own label, Subject Detroit, and in 1999 began releasing productions on Juan Atkins's Metroplex with the 12-inch Riding the Thin Line. Like “Mad” Mike Banks, he has kept an underground, independent stance throughout an international DJ career that has taken him to clubs across Europe and Japan, while continuing to release his own music and that of other Detroit artists. His records and sets connect the hard-edged Detroit techno of the 1990s to the scene that followed, and he remains a regular presence at Detroit's Movement weekend events.

Highlights

  1. Founded the Subject Detroit label in 1998.
  2. Debut production “Riding the Thin Line” on Metroplex (1999).
  3. Two-year residency at Motor, Hamtramck, in the late 1990s.
  4. Known for technically demanding three-deck DJ sets.

02 / Their Detroit places

Their Detroit places 1

Where they lived, worked, performed and liked to hang out. Closed and demolished places stay here too, because they are part of the city's history.

  1. Performed here · late 1990s

    Motor

    Closed

    His “essential two-year stint” as resident helped make Motor Detroit's leading techno club.

    3515 Caniff St, Hamtramck, MIMap ↗Place page →Source ↗