A truly remarkable social study of a culture that helped put Manchester on the worldwide music map. This documentary, by Madrid filmmaker Javi Senz, goes much deeper than the Hacienda and instead digs into archive footage that has never before been seen on film, alongside in-depth interviews, to help educate the viewer understand how house music arrived in the city in the early 1980's and takes them on a journey through the rich tapestry of its success and memorable stories.
This film shows us a paradoxical story: how the exorcism force of this creative movement of Detroit techno and the creation - by each of its pioneers - of their independent labels allowed an underground culture to resonate worldwide. How a creative force, building on new attitudes towards the world of technology and electronic communication, enabled a DIY economic utopia to become a reality. How, facing an almost unbearable environment daily, the only way out for these musicians has been to build capacity to develop creativity and effervescent freedom while maintaining endearing human qualities. How - knowing that these labels now exist for thirty years - their attitude and approach can be an example to many of us. Finally, how to defeat! Detroit city is being reborn.