Died On This Date (August 28, 2011) Dan Sicko / Journalist Who Chronicled Detroit Techno Scene

Dan Sicko
DOB Unknown – August 28, 2011

Dan Sicko was a respected music journalist and author whose work has appeared in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, Urb, and Wired.   A tireless advocate for techno music, Sicko also lectured on the subject at UCLA and the University of Michigan, among others.  In 1999, he published Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk, which introduced many to the influential Detroit techno scene of the ’80s.  Dan Sicko was 42 when he died from complications of ocular melanoma.