Remembering Mike Huckaby, Who Delivered Detroit’s Music To The World
In many ways, Mike Huckaby was the glue that bound Detroit’s electronic music scenes together. Other Motor City exports may have more international name recognition—like techno innovators Juan Atkins or Derrick May or house titans Moodymann and Theo Parrish—but it would be hard to find anyone more respected and beloved by his fellow Detroiters than the soft-spoken man known as “Huck.” A DJ, producer, and educator, Huckaby died last month at 54 from complications of COVID-19 after suffering a stroke in early March. His tragically premature loss has left a city already too accustomed to hard knocks feeling even more beleaguered than usual.