The love of music is really open and really great, and that’s what cultivates me as a musician from Detroit… Maybe one day I make a punk album out of the blue - that wouldn’t be past me, because I love punk too. I enjoy playing the songs that people enjoy listening to me DJ, but because I have eclectic taste like that, I’m not going to pigeonhole myself. But when I’m not going to the club, I’m honestly probably listening to Kendrick Lamar or Michael Franks. When I play now, it depends on where I’m playing, but I love playing house music, techno and disco, those are my go-tos. How does that all affect what you play out now? They had great songs, but didn’t really stick to one genre, and that was perfect to me. They’d play a lot of Prince, a lot of Michael Jackson, a lot of Motown, a lot of R&B, Marvin Gaye. Even then, the radio was really good, they’d play everything under the sun that felt funky or soulful or energetic. Whenever I’d go to my grandma’s house, she’d be cooking and have the radio on. My grandmother had in her house this plaque that said this old African proverb: “It takes a village to raise a child.” I was raised with that proverb from Detroit, because it felt like my whole block raised me, especially on my mom’s side. Stuff like that always influences me knowing your next-door neighbors.
Detroit’s very close-knit, my parents met as neighbors during their childhood years. It influences me heavily most of my family is from here. How has Detroit impacted you as a person growing up there, and as someone representing the city’s next generation of electronic artists? My parents got divorced when I was younger, and that was one of the albums they’d both still listen to, and I really got really fond of it. And one of my favorites Michael Franks’ Art of Tea. My mom would play a lot of R&B, like Kem, Erykah Badu. It would be housey and jazzy, with a couple of vocals here and there, that Masters At Work-type house music. He would play rock music or house music - at the time, I think he was still called progressive in the mid-90s.
A lot of rock music in my teenage years that my dad introduced me to he showed me Nirvana. And David Bowie, he was played on the radio a lot here in Detroit. As I got older, it became lots of different types of music. Temptations, Michael Jackson, the Jackson 5. What kind of music did you grow up listening to?ĭefinitely Motown the most. It’s going to be really fun with Movement happening again. You have me, Minx, Seth Troxler, so many Michiganders. You have Jeff Mills coming back, which is great, you have MK, he’s from Michigan. They’re all performing here in Detroit.Īnd there’s a couple of new faces, but there’s definitely a lot of people that have been doing it for 15, 20, 30 years.
A lot of people on the lineup are from Michigan… There’s so many people that put in the work and put in time and have really honed their craft and given it their all, and then some. I probably know about 95 percent of the lineup, they’re all personal friends or people I’ve worked with. What are you most looking forward to about returning to Movement this year? Read on to hear Corley’s thoughts on all of this and more. Corley’s summer dates including shows at Amnesia in Ibiza, a spot on Jamie Jones’ Los Angeles Paradise In the Park Lineup and a set at Electric Forest in Michigan.Ĭalling Billboard from her new living room in Detroit, looking cozy in a black hoodie reading “MOVE,” the conversation flows from Movement to Motown to representation in dance music. It’s thus a homecoming celebration, a world-class party celebrating the city’s rich local talent with friends and supporters from all over, before she and many of the other acts on the lineup continue enviable tours across the globe. This weekend, she’s also playing Movement 2022 - but that one’s definitely not a first, with 2022 marking Corley’s fourth time playing the festival.
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Carl Craig is one of the techno elders that has recognized her talent by taking her under his wing l ast year, when he tapped her to curate the latest installment of the compilation album series on his Planet E Communications label, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. She represents the next generation of young Black Detroit producers carrying the torch for their city and keeping things fresh and innovative. Return to EDC Las Vegas 2022 With Exclusive Sets From LP Giobbi, Kaleena Zanders & Sam Divine