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| Originally posted by DJ Mach X I heard his set was nothing special and his Contakt party at St.Andrews was even worse, shitty sound apparently |
These are some Midwest and NYTAs...Chill Out Room TAs, lol. Finally meeting these guys and gals was so awesome!
The view from our hotel room:
Where incidentally, Lee was also staying....ran into him in the lobby when he arrived:
Best crew ever. 
Liam has a shit ton of vids too.
DEMF was such a blast. Great group of friends, great music, sick party, many sketch moments, group moves, slogans! Fun fun fun
Hanging out with Cribby the rockstar rooster, Vince the coughing machine, Jenn and Andie! We had the perfect party team 
I got to meet a bunch of TA's that I havent met before or not introduced to... Sarah, stephan, jenniepie, Liam, Maggie, Alex, George , shanny, josee and the list goes on.
Day 1: Day
Left kitchener on sat AM and was pleased to see Jenn making it out for at least one day! thats the spirit girl! As soon we arrived in detroit, we made our first trip to IHOP Great service and good food. I have a picture for Rachel from IHOP!
After ihop and getting settled in at Comfort inn, we headed to the venue and music was already pumping. Getting the tickets took roughly 20 mins despite the long ass line! From the get go, it looked like a circus/halloween. Freaks, candy ravers, goths, gangstas, you name it!!
We headed directly to the Beatport tent and caught the end of Brian Kage vs Luke hess. It wasn't bad and had some good moments at the end. Justin Long came right after and didn't screw around and used his time slot to the fullest! With such short sets, no time to waste. Long has such energy behind the decks and his tunes were bumpy n groovy. He dropped the best house set of the weekend, bar none (mind you i didnt check many of the house djs).
After hearing Jenn rave about Voorn, I had high expectations of him. Unfortunately....he didnt do it for me. He had some good tracks, then dropped some trancy tunes that id see tiesto play 
(im mean) Voorn did seem to have technical difficulties and it probably threw him off.
Zip on the main stage was hit and miss. He was mostly minimal. Same with DBX. So during those time slots, i wandered around, hung out and chilled.
Back at the BP tent, Alex Smoke was dropping some great techno and kept me put. Along with Justin Long, he was the highlight of Saturday.
Day 1: After party
Having bought my Contakt ticket on pre-sale, I left Hart plaza during Alex under's set and headed to Andrew's Hall. The lineup was a total mess (aka worst than Sasha n digweed in MTL, minus the cold). We waited in line for about 1.5 hours due to fuckups with will call at the door. 1 hr in, they tell everyone to go the back door. So I lost my spot in line while rushing to the back Once in, I was not super impressed with whole setup. I didn't see the Contakt concept at all in the place....
The place was rammed to the tits, it was hot as hell, and with everyone smoking in there, it was simply disgusting. They had an artificial ceilling like at Dragonfly, which was the only feature in the place. The sound was insanely loud and way too much bass. The bass problem was eventually fixed during Hawtin's set, but the sound still stayed too loud!
We toughed it out for 2 hours and left around 3:30-4. Music wise, richie was great (like he was all weekend). He was playing with another guy, whom i don't know the name... Perhaps if the ambience was better, I would of enjoyed the party. Was it worth $45...nawww. When the Contakt party goes to MTL, will I go, most likely (hoping to see the actual concept and better setup).
Anyone knows when Richie stopped? (I am thinking 4 am as they closed at 4 on the sunday nite)
Day 2 to come later....!
Nice to meet you! God, there were a shit ton of TAs everywhere!
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| Originally posted by jennypie Nice to meet you! God, there were a shit ton of TAs everywhere! |
No it was earlier than that...either Mathias Kaden or the guy that was on after him. Dunno who he is/was...but he was actually quite terrible, imo. First thing he did when got on was jack up the sound...fucking douche. Funny thing is, then sun actually went away while he was playing, haha!
But yeah, I know the exact guido fag you're talking about, lol.
surpassed all expectations. 
I THINK DEMF MUSICALLY MAY BE EVEN BETTER THEN WMC
LOVED EVERYTHIGN ABOUT IT
ill write up a review in a bit
for now this is a vid of the last track Joris Voorn played (he was def one of my fav's of the wknd) the vibe was going through the roof
can u spot the duckie and the middle finger? LOL
Cribby <3
Apparently some crazy fuck climbed the scaffolding on the main stage... 
Did anyone catch David Squillace?
How was Moby's set?
CRIBBY I NEED YOUR PICS AND REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Originally posted by MissK CRIBBY I NEED YOUR PICS AND REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Originally posted by jennypie A big ass review will only take away from how fucking truly awesome this whole weekend was. Everything was just so on point. <3 DEMF |
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| Beat goes on for more than 30,000 at Movement fest wo unlikely heroes emerged during day two of Detroit's Electronic Music Festival: A guy from Pittsburgh wearing nothing but boxer shorts, and classic rockers Journey. The boxer shorts-clad Pittsburghian was Girl Talk, the nom de DJ of Gregg Gillis, and a beat-heavy rendition of Journey's "Faithfully" capped his manic set at the Movement festival Sunday. Girl Talk's buzzed-about show, along with key performances from hip-hoppers the Cool Kids, Italian DJ Benny Banassi, Windsor's Richie Hawtin and Detroit's own Carl Craig, helped draw 31,318 fans to Hart Plaza on Sunday, an uptick of 10,000 over Saturday's attendance and a figure that puts the festival well on its way to achieving the organizers' goal of having 60,000 bodies pass through the festival's turnstiles by the end of the holiday weekend. For all the weekend's performances and highlights, the image that will be burned in many attendees' minds is that of Gillis, shaggy haired and unshaven, diving into the crowd repeatedly while the epic "ohhh-ohhh-ohhh-ohhh" chorus of "Faithfully" played on loop. It was the capper of an ADD-addled set that spanned 30 years of pop music, and jumped wildly between artists such as Clipse, Rihanna, Ace of Base, Wu-Tang Clan, Elton John, the Notorious B.I.G., Dexy's Midnight Runners, Metallica, Lil Mama, M.I.A., ? and the Mysterians, Flo Rida, Tag Team, Elastica, Kelly Clarkson, Rick Springfield and Lil Wayne, all mashed up into one seamless mega-mix. Advertisement Before he even started his set, around three dozen crowd members stormed the stage and surrounded his DJ table, in what has become the norm for Girl Talk performances. Gillis took the stage wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt, but within minutes he stripped off his outerwear and was down to just his basketball shorts and a tank top. Later, everything was off but his boxers, as he filed through songs on his laptop while performing on his knees on top of his DJ table. The fans were wild for him, as he played to a capacity crowd on the Red Bull Music Academy stage, situated in the back of Hart Plaza along the waterfront and with Windsor twinkling in the background. Festival goers climbed speakers and crowd surfed while Gillis kept the mix coming at full speed; by the time you got into one song, he was already two songs down the road, and he kept that erratic pace for the entirety of his hour-long set. Gillis' set was heavy on pop music (who ever thought they'd hear Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" at Movement?), and he enjoyed acting as counterprogramming to the rest of the fest. "I like playing in positions where I might be a bit of a change of pace," he said after his set, while still wearing only his boxers. "I'm not even knocking anyone, but so much of the music here is built on repetition, where I have, like, no repetition." Elsewhere on Sunday, Benassi -- who played an 8 p.m. set inside the Pioneer Pro DJ tent -- performed to an overflow crowd that was approximately double the stage's capacity, seemingly dwarfing the crowd in the nearby main bowl for Miles Maeda's set. People were so into Benassi that he had to stop the music on several occasions and ask the audience to calm down and back up away from his table. He did it all with an enormous grin on his face and looked like he was having the time of his life, as did the festivalgoers who danced and partied non-stop during the duration of his performance. Benassi, who played pieces of Basement Jaxx's "Where's Your Head At" along with a souped up version of the "Peter Gunn" theme and his Grammy Award-winning remix of Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise," even stepped off the stage to pose for pictures with fans during his set. Both Girl Talk's and Benassi's bookings were viewed as a risk by fest organizers, since they're outside of the box of the type of performer who usually plays the festival. But Movement producer Jason Huvaere said after he saw the reaction to both acts, he was sure the risk paid off. "I don't know how anyone could have experienced these performances in this place and not seen the relevance of it," said a hoarse-sounding Huvaere. Other highlights on Sunday included Craig's deeply soulful closing performance on the VitaminWater-sponsored main stage, where his deep beats were complimented by saxophonist and Detroit jazz performer Wendell Harrison. Reliable party starter Richie Hawtin played to a packed audience on the Beatport Stage, and hip-hop hipsters the Cool Kids had people nodding their heads and waving their arms to their old-school saluting hip-hop jams on the Red Bull Music Academy stage prior to Girl Talk's performance. The festival continues today and closes with a headlining performance from Speedy J. Tickets, $25, are available at the fest's front gate. |
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Movement '08 festival roars Wasn't this festival once in jeopardy? The ghosts of Detroit Electronic Music Festivals past were a distant memory as Movement '08 grooved to an enormously successful three-day weekend, one marked by thumping wallops of bass, colorfully dressed crowds and, oh yes, a healthy increase in attendance. Organizers said 75,692 fans attended the Hart Plaza festival, a mammoth 68 percent increase over the 45,000 fans who attended in 2007 and well past organizers' goal of 60,000 attendees for the weekend. During its three years heading up the festival, Paxahau Promotions Group has eliminated the drama and infighting that once threatened to derail the fest, and as the music festival heads into its 10th year, the fest seems as healthy and sturdy as ever. It's a different animal than it was during its incarnation as a free festival, and charging admission has certainly affected overall attendance figures from those buoyant early years. But what the fest has lost in walk-up traffic and curious onlookers it has gained in a targeted, dedicated fan base, not to mention revenues (festgoers paid anywhere from $15 to $50, depending on what kind of ticket they bought and when they purchased it). Organizers reached outside the pool of performers they typically draw from; this year, booking high-profile acts such as Moby and Benny Benassi, performers whom techno purists tend to view as overly commercial. The risk paid off, however, with both performers playing to capacity crowds and reaching fans beyond those typically touched by the underground-leaning fest. "I don't know how anyone could have experienced these performances in this place and not seen the relevance of it," said Paxahau president Jason Huvaere on Sunday. He said the gambles -- which also included the Sunday night performance by Girl Talk, a mash-up DJ from Pittsburgh whose manic, A.D.D.-addled set covered everything from Kelly Clarkson to Journey and was a weekend highlight -- added to the overall experience at the festival. "On all levels, it was just a total, oustanding success," Huvaere said Monday night. "You can physically hear and see where the money went," said festgoer Lavell Williams, 41, of Roseville. "And Carl Craig was amazing last night. He gave me a reason to come back next year." This year's fest showcased expanded production on two of the stages, the Red Bull Music Academy stage and the Beatport stage. Both were situated along the Detroit Riverfront and featured high, load-bearing roofs that were several steps ahead of the sweaty tents from years past, and they offered festgoers a clublike feel on the Hart Plaza grounds. The Red Bull Music Academy stage, in particular, featured a series of cutting-edge acts, and was the place to be during the Sunday night stretch between hip-hop hipsters the Cool Kids and Girl Talk, who performed most of his set while stripped down to his boxer shorts. Kentucky native Barley Thomas, 27, says Movement is "like Woodstock for electronic music." Huvaere said on Sunday he was hoping for 20,000 people a day, and was wowed when he saw more than 30,000 (organizers used turnstiles at Hart Plaza's gates this year to ensure an accurate, immediate head count). "You can't help but be overwhelmed with excitement that the plan is working," he said. "It's always nice to see the kids out enjoying themselves," said Brenda Hawtin, referring not to her own children, sons Matthew and Richie Hawtin who performed on Sunday, but those roaming the festival grounds. "You always tend to think of Detroit as a big music town, and it's good to bring it alive, no matter what the music." |
From detroit news web site:
Chris Pereira, 22, of Toronto, dances to the sounds of Lee Burridge at the Beatport stage.
nice cribs!
could the dramatic increase in attendance be due towards the growing techno/minimal movement? hmmmmmm
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| Detroit's three-day electronic music fest adds extra star power Since assuming control of Movement: Detroit's Electronic Music Festival in 2006, Paxahau Promotions Group has made a concerted effort to right the once-shaky festival by shoring up its credibility with fans and musicians who are well-versed in Detroit's rich electronic music history. This year, they're reaching beyond that group. Big draw Through a number of high-profile bookings, the Paxahau team is expanding the festival's scope, making it more inclusive and accessible to fans who may not know house from techno music. As a result, the buzz about this year's festival -- the ninth annual Memorial Day weekend techno bash at Hart Plaza -- is greater than it's been in years. Not only is the buzz big, but ticket sales are swelling, too: Paxahau reports advance ticket sales are triple what they were at this time last year. Much of the credit goes to Moby, one of the biggest performers and DJs electronic music has ever known. Moby is a pop icon who has sold millions of albums and whose likeness is globally recognizable, and his Saturday night closing slot is perhaps the biggest booking the festival has taken on since George Clinton played the fest in 2002. For Paxahau's Jason Huvaere, the Moby booking was a no-brainer, and came in part from his extensive history in booking club shows (Paxahau brought in Moby for two shows in 1994). "It was negotiated quickly and painlessly," says Huvaere, adding Moby's agent contacted Paxahau about playing, not the other way around. "Moby's really showing his team colors with this." In addition to Moby, the sets by Pittsburgh mashup DJ Girl Talk -- Huvaere attended his show at Pontiac's Eagle Theatre in November and was "blown away" -- and Italian DJ Benny Benassi are building excitement, and are outside the realm of the type of artists that have performed at the fest the last several years. While there's debate amongst the techno purists about the performances, Huvaere is looking at these sets as a way to expand the scope of the festival and ultimately get more bodies in Hart Plaza. "We're talking about a few acts that are going to bring in a few thousand more people, then those few thousand people are going to be exposed to the heart of Detroit's electronic music community," he says. "This is a great thing. This is what turns people that don't know into people that do know." New partners Paxahau also struck up a pair of high-profile partnerships with sponsors such as Red Bull Music Academy and MySpace to help grow the festival. The Red Bull Music Academy, an international music event geared toward educating musicians, is sponsoring one of the fest's five stages, and the popular social networking site MySpace is hosting the festival's official Web site. Fans will see several noticeable differences on site. The Red Bull Music Academy and Beatport stages will be housed in enclosed spaces with load-bearing roofs overhead, which will allow for lighting rigs and wires to be suspended from the ceiling. Huvaere says the stages will make festivalgoers feel like they're inside a club. And after eliminating it last year, this year will see the return of the popular Underground Stage (now called the Real Detroit Stage), which Huvaere and his team have been experimenting with to try to optimize sound. He calls the stage, which sits in the lower level of Hart Plaza and is surrounded by concrete walls, a "sonic nightmare." Crowd control Huvaere hopes the changes result in an influx of bodies at Hart Plaza. Where the last two years have drawn attendance in the mid-40,000 range, he's hoping to see up to 60,000 this weekend. It's a far cry from the pie-in-the-sky (and unsubstantiated) reports that the festival drew more than 1 million fans its first several years. But it's an attainable goal, and a sign the fest is in the right direction as its 10th anniversary approaches. "This year is the festival's ninth year, but it's really the third year under new management, and a lot of people in the business have told me the third year is the ringer. You've worked the kinks out, the wait-and-see periods are over with partners and sponsors, and people have been able to establish a general idea what this festival is about because of a reputation that's been established over the past couple of years," says Huvaere. "I feel like this is the year, and it's going to be a grand slam year." |
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| Originally posted by jchung52 could the dramatic increase in attendance be due towards the growing techno/minimal movement? hmmmmmm |
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| Originally posted by devnull From detroit news web site: Chris Pereira, 22, of Toronto, dances to the sounds of Lee Burridge at the Beatport stage. nice cribs! |
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| Originally posted by devnull From detroit news web site: Chris Pereira, 22, of Toronto, dances to the sounds of Lee Burridge at the Beatport stage. |
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| Originally posted by MissK Any vids of Lee???????? |
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| Originally posted by devnull From detroit news web site: Chris Pereira, 22, of Toronto, dances to the sounds of Lee Burridge at the Beatport stage. nice cribs! |
** anxiously waiting to see if Cribby completed all his tasks!!! **
ps. sikk pic indeed.
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| Originally posted by devnull From detroit news web site: Chris Pereira, 22, of Toronto, dances to the sounds of Lee Burridge at the Beatport stage. nice cribs! |
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| Originally posted by jon jon 'Chris Pereira AKA Cribby from Tranceaddict' would have been sikkk |
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| Originally posted by preppie chick ** anxiously waiting to see if Cribby completed all his tasks!!! ** ps. sikk pic indeed. |
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