01/09/2026
In the 1980s, Detroit was losing its industry, its population, and its sense of what came next. A small group of young Black producers – Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, and the generation that followed them through Underground Resistance – answered with machines.
What they built wasn’t nostalgia for the factories.
It was a sound that imagined the city forward: mechanical, melodic, unmistakably human.
At Polygon Portal, a programme curated and produced by Omni Soundlab from across the Detroit lineage, is reimagined on one of the world’s best spatial audio systems.
The sound of a city inventing its own future, played the way it was meant to be felt.
The Polygon Portal Essay Series is a programme of curated immersive listening sessions, pairing themed playlists with companion essays that set the music in its cultural, technological, political and historical context.
Knowing the world behind a record changes what you feel when you hear it.
Head on over to our website (link in bio) to book this immersive listening experience.
