Hobotech Debuts in Brooklyn
Hobotech, a new sub-genre of techno music made its debut at the Jalopy Theater in Red Hook on Thursday, Dec. 11. Music producer Jon Margulies started it all as a joke, but after a bit of research, he realized that mixing “hobo” (folk, bluegrass, and other music that grew from the Depression era hobo movement) and techno, wasn’t such a crazy idea.
He found that the culture of hoboing (transience, non-participation in society, values of freedom) were appropriate to ressurect at a time when millions of Americans, he says, are being failed by their pursuits of security (buying a house, supporting wars abroad).
Here’s Margulies at his apartment in Manhattan sampling a few hobotech tracks.
