While Detroit is mostly known as the home of Motown, Eminem and the White Stripes, it's musical legacy goes much deeper. In addition to heavyweights like George Clinton and rockers the MC5, Detroit can rightfully claim to be the birthplace of techno, a term coined by one of the "Belleville Three," (the three architects of modern-day techno) Juan Atkins.

Confined to a depressed and largely devastated urban wasteland surrounded by hyper-affluent suburbs, Detroit's marginalized youth took their fascination for new wave music, synthesizers and do-it-yourself spirit of punk and created a wholly new form of music which went virtually unheralded both in Detroit and the broader US for the better part of twenty years. Quickly achieving celebrity status and enormous success in Europe, Detroit's techno musicians struggled to gain recognition and earn a living in their home town, a situation that has begun to change over the past few years thanks to an advert for Ford featuring Atkin's Model 500 classic "No UFOs" with the tagline "Detroit Techno," and the tremendous popularity of the city's free Electronic Music Festival each May.

Now, a documentary seeks to set the record straight and give Detroit's innovative electronic musicians their proper recognition. Mixing party footage and interviews with all the critical players in the scene, from the musicians to journalists, "High Tech Soul" does a great job of exploring techno's roots, it's tremendous impact on music and culture and also looks at how it has helped revitalize Detroit. Most interesting, however, is the way the film got funded> A cursory look at the website yields a barrage of logos, from local clubs to the very record labels owned and operated by the films subjects to the second and third waves of Detroit's techno scene. Foremost above all of these though is the logo of Ciroc Vodka, a beverage that has likely fueled many a classic night at one of Detroit's storied techno parties.

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