Electronic Music NewsDetroit electronic music festival gets bigger better
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- Detroit electronic music festival gets bigger better
- Ex-Detroiter Seth Troxler coming home to spin at Movement
- Music Snob’s Concert Picks
Detroit electronic music festival gets bigger better
Royal ak Daily Tribune
More than 70 acts will keep crowds dancing and windows near Hart Plaza rattling from Saturday to Monday. Movement’s four stages will host DJ and live sets by such acts as Afrika Bambaataa Bassnectar Glitch Mobb and more along with Detroit techno pioneers Kevin Saunderson Derrick May and Carl Craig. The festival will stretch into the wee hours too with a series of adjunct and after parties. Among the highlights are: a bash celebrating the 10th anniversary of Ann Arbor’s Ghostly International label on Saturday at the Magic Stick; the I’m n a Boat late-night cruise Sunday on the Detroit Princess with Carl Craig Luciano Dixon and Ame; a reunion of the musician and DJ collective known as Family Funktion on Sunday at Cliff Bell’s; a 25th Anniversary of House Music celebration Sunday at slo; and the official Movement 2009 closing party on Monday at Plan B Nightclub.
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Ex-Detroiter Seth Troxler coming home to spin at Movement
Detroit Free Press
Just 23 the Kalamazoo native has already logged several years of experience as a DJ and producer recording for Ann Arbor label Spectral Sound (part of Ghostly International) Richie Hawtin’s Minus Records label and other American and European labels. Troxler grew up surrounded by electronic music. Both his mother and stepfather were involved in the dance music scene. At 14 he moved to the Detroit area attending Lake rion High School and got his first set of turntables at 15. Within a year he was working for Melodies and Memories Records in Eastpointe and attending — and later organizing — parties in Detroit and Chicago. A week after graduating from high school Troxler was playing a DJ gig in Berlin where he now lives.
Music Snob’s Concert Picks
NBC Washington
bviously Toronto electro-rockers. It is edgier and more experimental than most electronic rock but just as hypnotic as anything on the market. The group consists of two drummers and three keyboardists and their self-titled debut was a largely improvised set of songs. Expect the same at the show.