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- IDA Announces Broad Electronic Music Initiative

Movement: Detroit’s electronic music festival announces more …
The Detroit News
Among the acts are Los Angeles-based producers The Glitch Mob German electro artist Anthony Rother and Detroit house DJ Delano Smith. “We spend a lot of time selecting artists and DJs that will appeal to electronic music enthusiasts” Jason Huvaere president of Movement organizers Paxahau Promotions Group said in a statement. “And I think with the addition of these 25 artists we have done a good job of putting together a solid mix of local and international performers to take the stages at Movement this year. ” Today’s lineup additions join a list of 35 acts including hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa and popular mashup artist Z-Trip that was announced last week. Carl Cox Loco Dice vs. Luciano and Derrick May will close the festival’s three nights.
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Deacon releases dynamic new CD
UW Badger Herald
com%2Fartsetc%2F2009%2F03%2F25%2Fdeacon_releases_dyna. Deacon’s 2007 breakthrough album Spiderman of the Rings carved him a place in the electronic music scene. In 2008 Rolling Stone credited Baltimore as the “Best Scene” because of Deacon’s influence calling him one of the “People and Places that make Charm City a hotbed for rap and art rock. ” n his second full-length album Bromst Deacon focuses his musical efforts and the result is an album that’s slightly more subdued but just as much fun. Bromst was partially recorded live with the help of members of other Baltimore-based bands including Ponytail and Future Islands. The remainder of the album was recorded at Snow Ghost a house-turned-recording studio where Deacon’s boundary-pushing experimentation exceeded the possibilities of even the best recording equipment — apparently the player piano he used had to be rewired to keep up with his beats.

IDA Announces Broad Electronic Music Initiative
Market Wire (press release)
These newpartnerships add to IDA’s existing client base which includes GhostlyInternational King Street and Jellybean as well as longstandingdistribution agreements with shops like Beatport Juno and DJ Download. The announcement was made today at the. wintermusicconference. IDA’s presence at WMC has expanded this year to thesponsorship of three stellar events:– bliqSound’s “Music Without Borders” event at the Indra Lounge in South Beach– The Global Media Summit at the South Seas Hotel– Dirtybird’s Showcase event at the Doublegrand Waterclub “As a niche-oriented independent record shop trying to claw our way intothe digital arena we’ve been dismissed by many aggregators who viewsmaller operations like ours with skepticism” said Sean Schwartz owner ofHalcyon. “IDA stands apart from the pack in this regard.

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