Alternative School

08/27/2026

ameera is a Detroit based vinyl DJ with a deep record collection spanning jazz, boogie, disco, funk, soul, R&B, hip hop and sounds from across decades. Her sets are guided more by feeling and pacing than any one genre, bringing familiar records together with deeper cuts and unexpected finds. At RELAY, she shares the booth with Sugar for an all vinyl back to back, bringing two distinct approaches to record collecting into the same set.

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RELAY
Friday, 8/28
Northern Lights Lounge

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10PM - LATE

08/27/2026

Sugar is a Detroit based DJ and producer affiliated with Limited Network. Her selections are rooted in Detroit and Midwest electronic music, with techno, electro and classic house alongside obscure records and less obvious finds. Known for digging beyond the standards, Sugar brings that side of her collection into an all vinyl back to back with ameera at RELAY.

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RELAY
Friday, 8/28
Northern Lights Lounge

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10PM - LATE

08/27/2026

Shigeto’s roots in jazz and drumming have followed him throughout his career. After studying jazz in New York and London, he began releasing music with Ghostly International, bringing together influences from hip hop, jazz and electronic music along the way. His DJ sets reflect that same curiosity, often reaching into house, soul, jazz and beyond. That kind of range makes for an interesting meeting point with Todd Modes, whose own approach comes from many of the same musical roots.

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RELAY
Friday, 8/28
Northern Lights Lounge

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10PM - LATE

08/27/2026

Todd Modes has carved out a distinct place in Detroit music through a deep, wide ranging approach to records. His releases for Golf Channel Recordings and FIT sit in the deeper end of dance music, while his influences stretch through hip hop, jazz, funk, soul and beyond. That range comes through in his DJ sets, where different eras and styles can sit comfortably beside one another without feeling forced. His range gives him plenty of common ground with Shigeto while leaving the B2B open to move in unexpected directions.

Todd Modes

RELAY
Friday, 8/28
Northern Lights Lounge

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10PM - LATE

08/18/2026

We’re back next Friday night with RELAY, four selectors meeting in two back to back sets.

Shigeto and Todd Modes share the booth first. Both come from a deep appreciation for hip hop, jazz and beat driven music. Shigeto’s work draws on jazz, hip hop, live percussion and electronic music, while Todd Modes carries a similarly wide background into his own cosmic, soulful take on house and dance music.

Ameera and Sugar close things out with an all vinyl back to back. Ameera is a Detroit vinyl selector whose sets pull from jazz, jazz fusion, boogie, disco, funk, hip hop and 2000s R&B, with records that pair in unexpected ways. Sugar digs in the same world, trading soulful, rhythm forward selections alongside her. Two selectors on wax, each record answering the last.

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Todd Modes
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We’re back next Friday night with RELAY, four selectors meeting in two back to back sets. Shigeto and Todd Modes share the booth first. Both come from ...

08/01/2026

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT

COMPUTER LAB at Marble Bar

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Alternative School presents: COMPUTER LAB Saturday, August 1st — Marble Bar Detroit electro, techno, and bass. The city’s own strain, not the same fun...

07/31/2026

Detroit In Effect stands as one of the city’s longest-running names in Detroit electro, its catalog capturing the raw energy that flourished alongside Detroit techno throughout the 1990s. Following the passing of DJ P Dog, DJ Maaco has continued the Detroit In Effect legacy, carrying forward the unmistakable blend of rhythm, low-end pressure, and machine funk that defined the group’s classic recordings. Today, Detroit In Effect remains an active force in Detroit electro, preserving its original spirit through music that is direct, physical, and unmistakably rooted in the city that created it.

D.j. Maaco

COMPUTER LAB
Saturday, 8/1
Marble Bar

10PM - LATE

07/31/2026

Ectomorph have been a fixture in Detroit electronic music for over thirty years. BMG started the electro project in 1994, briefly alongside Gerald Donald of Drexciya, and was joined by Erika in 1997 — the two at its core ever since. BMG and Erika build the live show entirely from hardware, pushed hard and patched on the fly so no two sets land the same. They call it the left-hand path of Detroit techno, and it runs through everything they do, from the records to the Interdimensional Transmissions parties. Accid, electro and techno are just the tools. What they’re after is the older, stranger, more psychedelic Detroit.

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BMG
erika

COMPUTER LAB
Saturday, 8/1
Marble Bar

10PM - LATE