TAG: movement

Feb20

Masters At Work, Nicholas Jaar, Moodymann + More Added To Movement Detroit Festival

The next phase of performers for the 2013 Movement Detroit festival has been announced, including NYC house luminaries Master At Work (Louie Vega + Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzalez), Detroit deep deep deep house enigma Moodymann and electronic fave Nicholas Jaar.

Other additions to the festival, which takes place each Memorial Day Weekend in downtown Detroit, include Detrit veteran Stacey Pullen, New York afterhours heroes Soul Clap, Panoramabar resident DJ Steffi, Matthew Dear alter-ego Audion (live), and ’80s obsessed electro duos Azari & III and Adult.

Check the full list of additions after the jump.

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Jan30

First Movement-Detroit Acts Announced :: Richie Hawtin, DVS1, Carl Craig

Detroit’s annual techno gathering, Movement, has announced the first wave of artists scheduled to play the 2013 edition over Memorial Day weekend. The line-up includes Detroit stars Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig and Derrick May & Kevin Saunderson, in what we assume to be a tag-team configuration.

Another major B2B set on the line-up is Marcel Dettman and Ben Klock, both residents at the infamous Berghain in Berlin. Two more Berghain residents,  Detroit native Ryan Elliot and Movement first-timer …

May21

URB’s 10 Must See Acts For Movement-Detroit 2012

Before mega events like Ultra Fest, EDC and Electric Zoo turned EDM into big business (again), a little upstart festival called Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) denied all of the odds and brought the sounds of techno and house to the struggling metropolis for all to enjoy. Now in it’s 13th year, the gathering renamed Movement continues to buck the trends by offering a unique overview of global electronic music that you won’t find anywhere else in the world. Our performer picks for 2012 aren’t all of the biggest names on the line-up, but give yourself a chance to catch something you won’t find on every other event listing in the world.


MARK FARINA

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Perennial favorite Mark Farina has rocked many a dance floor, but for a generation of party kids, his contributions to the after party are just as significant. The DJs Mushroom Jazz series was the soundtrack to many the “morning after,” and virtually became it’s own genre of downtempo, acid jazz, trip-hop and other slow and soulful beats. Don’t miss this rare public performance of tunes the SF legend usually reserves for private playing. (Saturday, Main Stage, 3-5) …MORE

May17

Download Flying Lotus Podcast For Stones Throw (MP3)

So we know that pretty much anything Flying Lotus touches is gonna get passed and praised by all corners of the musicsphere these days, right? Even something he had, by his own admittance, forgotten about. We first heard about this mix why FlyLo tweeted:

“OH dang found this mix i made of all these records I found in the valley… Slipped my mind. I meant to put it out last year..my bad. on it.”

He passed is on to his old bosses at Stones Throw (and by bosses, we’re referring to when he was an intern), and soon a whole bunch of new heads were signing up for the label’s awesome podcast series on iTunes to check out Flying Lotus’ Lovers Melt mix, …

Mar08

Five Festivals You Can Still Get Tickets For

2011 will be remembered in the festival community as the year of the sellout. Coachella sold 75,000 tickets in 124 hours. Seattles Sasquatch festival moved its 100K tix (25,000 per day) in similarly fast fashion, while Pitchfork Festival managed to move all of their three-days passes while only announcing a small portion of the scheduld performers. And it’s all but certain that later mega-fests like Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo will also be overwhelmed by demand over supply. So what do you do it you want to spend a weekend in the sun, but not lose a morning clicking refresh on the ticketmaster website? Fortunately, there’s plenty of more low-key, but not lower quality, summer music festivals on offer. …MORE

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