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Promoters Paxahau has announced the complete line-up and schedule for Detroit’s 2012 Movement Festival, giving the nearly 100,000 EDM fans who pass through the gates each Memorial Day Weekend plenty of time to plan how to attack the 106 DJs performing on five stages, and bemoan the fact half of our favorites—Carl Craig, Clark Warner, Matthew Hawtin—are on before 4PM. If you happen to be up and moving in Hart Plaza that early, please bring us coffee and hash browns. …MORE
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We don’t know who has been handling the bookings over at Boiler Room, but whoever it is has been hitting some homeruns lately. First they nabbed DJ sets by Thom Yorke and company from the release party for TKOL RMX 1234567, and then last week the live webcam captured Detroit techno icon Carl Craig performing a quick live set, with a whole studio’s worth of gear in place of the usual CD-J set-up. Craig starts off slow, toying with a strange handheld box controller before digging into many of his classic hits—particularly from his 69 alias. Eschewing Ableton means it’s not always the smoothest PA (you can even watch Craig’s furrowed brow as he seeks to make corrections on the mixing board. But if you want to witness a close-up look at how live techno can be made, it’s worth watching this 30 minutes closely.
BR #73 Carl Craig (live) from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.
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Now in it’s 15th year, Amsterdam Dance Event has grown into one of the world’s premier electronic music gatherings. With top DJs playing in dozens of clubs each night, and a daytime program that’s actually interesting enough to attend, ADE has gained enough status in the past few years to be considered a rightful rival to Miami’s annual Winter Music Conference.
With Holland’s globally renowned mainstream dance acts mingling with Berlin’s biggest underground techno practitioners and America’s dance music veterans, it’s hard to be sure where to best spend you time. Check out our list of top things to do at ADE after the jump, and save yourself some time in the que. …MORE
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Ever since the first releases way back in 1995, !K7 Records’s DJ-Kicks series of mix CDs have not only featured the most interesting and exciting DJs of the era—from Carl Craig (1996) to Kode9 (2010)—playing the sound that made them the hot stuff of the moment, but each disc has been sure to close with an original track or remix from each DJ, making a formidable catalog of original music in it’s own right.
German nu-disco/deep house producer Motor City Drum Ensemble is the latest red-hot name to pick up the DJ-Kicks mantle, and his oringal track, “L.O.V.E.” is more than worthy of inclusion in the collection. …MORE
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Before he moved to San Francisco and started his world-famous Dirtybird crew, Claude Von Stroke was just another kid from Detroit, discovering the city’s techno roots at raves around the city, and at the earliest DEMF techno festivals. Now, Von Stroke has now the played the fest himself and telling us who has him excited on the line-up in 2011.
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