Movement - DEMF 08

[kosmo vinyl]

a better flyer with the cube
 
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[kosmo vinyl]

ixkpd-bk might be interested in pre festival event...
 
 Originators of Motown, Funk and Soul
 MAY 23RD
 Campus Martius Park
 "4th Fridays with Ford"
 11:30am-midnight
 FREE
 
 ALL AGES, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 Woodward Ave, 3 blocks north of Hart Plaza
 
 MUSIC
 KING SOLOMON BURKE
 8:00pm-9:30pm
 
 
 AMP FIDDLER
 10:30pm-midnight
 
 
 DJ FRANK RAINES
 9:30pm-10:30pm
 Resident at Detroit's premier FUNK NIGHT, DJ Frank Raines spins 60s and 70s Deep Funk music.
 
 
 DENNIS COFFEY
 11:30am-1:30pm
 
 REGGIE SMITH & the AFTERPARTY
 6:00pm-8:00pm

[killsaly]

Originally posted by kosmo:
  so any clue on any of these?
 TECH ITCH
 

If you are into drum and bass, you will like him.

[Firebutt McGee]

Originally posted by kosmo:
  ixkpd-bk might be interested in pre festival event...
 
 Originators of Motown, Funk and Soul
 MAY 23RD
 Campus Martius Park
 "4th Fridays with Ford"
 11:30am-midnight
 FREE
 
 ALL AGES, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 Woodward Ave, 3 blocks north of Hart Plaza
 
 MUSIC
 KING SOLOMON BURKE
 8:00pm-9:30pm
 
 
 AMP FIDDLER
 10:30pm-midnight
 
 
 DJ FRANK RAINES
 9:30pm-10:30pm
 Resident at Detroit's premier FUNK NIGHT, DJ Frank Raines spins 60s and 70s Deep Funk music.
 
 
 DENNIS COFFEY
 11:30am-1:30pm
 
 REGGIE SMITH & the AFTERPARTY
 6:00pm-8:00pm

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
 
 You're damn right I am!

[kosmo vinyl]

i'd go but had already bought my ticket for the Science Center Event...

[kosmo vinyl]

Schedule has been posted
 
 http://www.demf.com/loudbaby/demf_schedule.swf
 
 And holy conflict DJ Boatrocker...
 
 Looks like I'll never get to see Girl Talk and may miss Richie Hawtin with Kenny Larkin and Carl Craig performing live are at the same time.  May have to plunk done for the M_inus aferpary..

[Firebutt McGee]

I'm all about the Beatport stage on Saturday.

[kosmo vinyl]

i knew it was to good to be true an event featuring  top names in detroit electronic music that was going to end at a reasonable hour outside of the festival, just got cancelled...     looks like i might be stalking ixkpd-bk friday night

[kosmo vinyl]

ok nobody gives a rats ass, but the event i was looking forward to go moved to a different location... woohoo, i am so very old when something ending at midnight makes me happy

[kosmo vinyl]

interesting from an interview with Pete Rock
 
 What can we expect from you at the Movement festival?
 I got memories of Detroit, so I got something up my sleeve. Just look forward to real hip-hop and real music â?? whatever the crowd calls for. Basically, I got a whole hour and a half dedicated to [the great Detroit producer] Dilla.

[kosmo vinyl]

so didn't really feel it for the part of Pete Rock's set I caught...
 
 The highlights were Egyptian Lover who rocked the wheels of steel, Kraftwerk and some live 808.  DBX was mind blowing.  Enjoyed Sonikus's boy Terrence Parker, rocked it last night and for the bit I caught him tonight, dropped Jay Dee "Plastic Dreams" into his set.  Didn't really spend to much on the main stage, ambient music in the bright sunshine not that interesting when the techno be bangin' in the underground. Caught only the beginning and end , but  Moby  was partying like it was 1993.  Solid get the crowd pumped rave anthems, started with "Good Life" and ended with "Thousand"
 
 Was disappointed by Newcleus who started out strong but faded as their set went on,  to bad they didn't perform live with instruments instead of using a laptop.  Wasn't really feelin Joris Vroon sounded like an extended remix of a couple songs.

[kosmo vinyl]

Day two...
 
 The highlight of the day and probably the festival was Carl Craig live.  Legendary tracks performed live with additional tasteful funky keyboard and jazzy saxophone flourishes.  Much like DBX/Daniel Bell on day one, it was like watching a musicians record live in the studio.  Add those to the mind blowing experience of seeing Inner Cityl ive in 2001. Now I have to see Model 500 live...
 
 Biggest surprise of the day was Ectomorph who a really warped version of Kraftwerk meets Old School Electro.  The Cool Kids were a lot of fun as well...
 
 The rest of the day was spent enjoying interludes of pounding techno in the underground and funky house from the main stage.  And continuing to be disappointed with most of what I heard on the Beatport stage.  I guess that I just don't get minimal or what most of the DJs are doing.  There is annoying rhythmic pattern that always seems to present almost if it's the same track over and over.  The part of Hearthobs set I caught was the most enjoyable.  Really didn't get a kick of Magda, sure she's got a nice smile, but the portion of her set I caught just didn't anything for me.  Caught a brief part of Hawtin's set but it was so crowded around the tent I couldn't be bothered.
 
 As much as I like pant fluttering pounding techno, I'm finding hard to take the beats for more than 30-45 minutes or so.  Am in general enjoying the house DJ...

[kosmo vinyl]

and i'd like to coin the phrase "Needs More Fender Rhodes", really dig that sound..

[sweetcell]

Originally posted by kosmo:
  and i'd like to coin the phrase "Needs More Fender Rhodes", really dig that sound..

everything in its right place.

[kosmo vinyl]

day three stick a fork in my i'm done....
 
 highlights of the day Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts doing funky techno house what ever you want to call it, nice fun way to start the day. Willing to be Guillaume and whoever the Coutu Dumonts are, would be fun in a club.  Guillaume dropped a little "Brick House" in the middle of his set.
 
 Cobblestone Jazz another fine example of the blending of electronic backing beats and flourishes of live keyboards.  Most excellent and not to jammy...
 
 Pleasant surprise of the day was that there was hope for Beatport stage artists who could deliver on tunes that actually had a groove to them and not more of the clicky Minimal nonsense that just don't have any soul to it.  Enjoyed  what Mathias Kaden and Davide Squillace had to offer.  
 
 Which is a good thing since one call only handle so much slammin techno in four days and clearly i'm to old to appreciate the "Ghetto Tech" which was on offer all day.  everytime i wander over that it was overly loud, completely distorted, rapid fire blah.
 
 Kevin Saunderson delivery a workshop in electronic data music as one of the closing festival highlighss...