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Movement 07, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, is steaming up Detroit’s Hart Plaza, despite rain and the admission charge.

“It was a slow start,” says Jason Huvaere, president of Paxahau Promotions Group, which produced this year’s festival. “But after 4 p.m., people never stopped coming in.”
He said he’d grade Saturday a “B+” and by 9 p.m. [...]

 

Movement 07, Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival, has announced a lineup for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend May 26-28 festival at its home in Downtown Detroit’s Hart Plaza. The event will feature performances by legendary Detroit artists Moodymann live featuring Pitch Black City; Model 500 featuring the godfather of Detroit Techno Juan Atkins; and Jeff Mills, [...]

 

Fuse-In has announce that tickets for the 2005 edition of Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival are now on sale. The three-day event will feature four stages showcasing over 100 electronic music artists.
This year’s festival will feature DJ and live performances by Mos Def, Ken Ishii, Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson, Green Velvet, Richie Hawtin, Underground Resistance, Alexander [...]

 

Kevin Saunderson and MusicLogical have announced plans to produce FUSE-in Detroit this Memorial Day weekend (May 28, 29, 30) at Hart Plaza in Detroit, Michigan. A multi-year contract was signed with the City of Detroit allowing Saunderson to produce the festival, originally known as The Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) and more recently, Movement. The [...]

 

Movement 04, the free electronic music festival to be held in Detroit Memorial Day weekend, has released a list of artists that have confirmed that they will be performing.
Movement, Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival, is the largest electronic music festival in the world. The event integrates musical and visual artistry, creativity, diversity and state-of-the-art technology, as [...]

 

House Music

26Jan04

Disco never really died.
Instead it mutated, and one of its mutant offshoots is House Music. House music retains much of the heavy regular beat of disco, but tends to be more electronic, with drum machine rhythms and synthesized basses. The music is song based, and draws on a variety of influences, including Latin, jazz, soul, [...]