The Driving Memoirs

The Driving Memoirs is before Metro Area, New Jersey's most rigorous Detroit study, Morgan Geist demonstrating the precision and taste that would later define his better-known work. It's a record of real craft, Detroit techno rendered with an unusual cleanness and attention to detail, and it's a quiet gem in his catalogue. It ranks at a hundred and seventy-eight because it's a precursor rather than a peak, but the precursor is genuinely accomplished, and the taste that made him is fully present.