Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Shit Show - A Movement Festival Afterparty


If you're in town for the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, then you'll definitely want to attend this event. But don't be alarmed, cause people will probably die.

Featuring:
Sety (Circus Company-Paris)
Soul Clap (Wolf+Lamb-Boston)
Le Loup (Wolf+Lamb-Paris)
Eddie C (Jiscomusic, Karat, 7 Inches of Love-Vancouver)
Derek Plaslaiko (Spectral/Bunker-NYC)
Todd Osborn (Spectral/Rephlex-Detroit)
Sergio Santos vs Tanner Ross (Mothership/Airdrop-Boston)
Kyle Hall (FXHE/Wild Oats-Detroit)
Crazy Larry (Airdrop-NYC)
K atou (Lick My Deck-Greece)
Clint Stewart (Auralism-SF)
Big Bully (Mineral/Get Physical-NYC)
Snack N C'mish (Turntable Lab/APT-NYC)
John Arnold live (Ubiquity-Detroit)
Fat Camp DJ's (Atomly, Matt Negative, & JD-NYC)
Guys On Drugs (Secrets + E Spleece-Detroit)
Darkcube live (DTM-Detroit)
Mr Joshooa (Random Reason-Detroit)
Jeremy Kypta (Random Reason-Detroit)
Rev. Robert David Jones (GSHC-Detroit)
Adam Stolz (Black Nation/Prosthetic-Chicago)
EH3 (Black Nation-Chicago)

Starts Sunday May 30th at 3am and goes until Sunday May 30th at 10pm
tix presale at neptix.com
TV BAR
2554 Grand River Detroit


Monday, May 24, 2010

Aphotic Segment - A New Monthy @ The Woodbridge Pub


Words By: C.A.P. & Pipé Scuttleworth.

"Aphotic Segment” is a monthly endeavor aimed at the exploration of the seemingly divergent worlds of both electronic and traditional music. The goal is to distend the audience with a cacophony, in an environment suitable for a listener's total immersion.

Too often sound is presented myopically, in a context that focuses on a particular scene or style. The current structure often serves to narrow the participant’s exposure, frequently at the expense of the broader spectrum of what already exists or what may be.

With our monthly, we will attempt to parse the infinite, to help induce a musical imagination ripe with lizard androids, gothic relics, and outer space travel. Here, here fine friends! Our time is too limited to suppress the curious nature of humanity and its lovely soundtrack. We cannot grow unless we continue to search the abyss. Join us every last Wednesday of the month at the Woodbridge Pub in Detroit.

Bartender: Josh Dahlberg
Selector: Drew Pompa
Design: William "Juice" Singer


Lost in Sound 07 w/ Patrick Russell


From: Dont Forget To Go Home

“Don’t Forget To Go Home” is a platform for creative exchange between DJs, music enthusiasts, producers and dedicated party goers in order to capture the past and present of dance music's intriguing culture.

As a prelude to the anticipated Movement Festival at the end of May, “Don’t Forget To Go Home” has been running weekly features dedicated to Detroit, a place highly regarded as the epicenter for electronic music. For this special edition they investigate the mystique about Detroit, spotlighting conversations, profiles, offbeat features and exclusive music from a versatile, handpicked group of Motor City vanguards. For their last edition, they talk to local dj and producer, Patrick Russell. Read the interview and download Patrick's mix HERE.


Sunday, May 23, 2010

The Beehive Project



The Beehive Project is A large-scale installation from an interdisciplinary group of artists from Detroit, offering it's inaugural display at this year's Detroit Electronic Music Festival.

The giant beehive will function as a large sculpture, an intimate gathering space, and will also serve as a metaphor for the city of Detroit by referencing the hive as an ideal model for community. Historically, beehives have been associated with industry, diverse cooperation, and resourcefulness. Honey, their primary output, has traditionally symbolized the restoration of health, yearning for sweetness, and rebirth. These associations reference aspects of Detroit's history while also serving as symbols of hope and vision for the future of the city.

The beehive is also a particularly poignant metaphor because of the recent phenomenon of colony collapse disorder (CCD) affecting hives throughout North America. CCD occurs when workers bees from a beehive abruptly disappear, leaving the swarm without enough workers to continue functioning. By paralleling this trend with the steady depopulation of deindustrialization of Detroit over the past 50 years, we hope to honestly portray Detroit's distressed economic and social situation while still looking to the beehive as a metaphor for the strength of community, collaboration, and supportive, creative production in the city.

For more information regarding the project, visit www.thebeehiveproject.com


Thursday, May 20, 2010

Twilight Babies w/ Madis One @ The Park Bar


The Twilight Babies

Detroit's Twilight Babies formed in 2001 around vocalist Alison Lewis and multi-instrumentalists Mikey Brown and Adam Walker. None were strangers to the Motor City music scene -- Lewis had issued a solo LP earlier that year, while Brown and Walker were members of the electronic music outfit 19.5 Collective. As Twilight Babies, the trio flitted freely between trip-hop texture and dream pop fuzz, mixing electronic soundscapes with extensive guitar work and Lewis' lush, soulful vocals. The trio's eponymous debut was issued in August 2002 to considerable local acclaim, and was supported by a round of live performances. The Middle of Something LP appeared a little over a year later. Monster, recorded by Mike E. Clark, was released in 2005. Named the Detroit music awards' best electronic group two years consecutively, The Twilight Babies have emerged from a three year performance hiatus to provide a rare sonic delight for our pleasure.

Featuring Additional Performances By:
Madis One (Blank Artists) - Live
Jim Stone (Family Funktion) - DJ

Doors @ 9pm
Park Bar
2040 Park Ave
Detroit, MI USA
$8, 21+


Wednesday, May 19, 2010

SOUP


Over the course of what seems forever, Detroit has been bubbling to the brim with creative activities intended to pool like minded individuals together under one umbrella - community. This most recent example of this piping hot bowl of creativity comes in the form of a monthly gahtering started by friends, Kate Daughdrill and Jessica Hernandez called SOUP. Modestly tucked above the confines of Mexicantown Bakery, these creatives congregate to nourish not only their bodies, but also their minds and spirits and the whole purpose is to create a monthly dinner aimed at funding micro-grants for creative projects. Yeah... go ladies!

Read the entire article HERE


Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Detroit's Electronic Music Festival: An Oral History


Resident Advisor recently published an oral history on the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, as it looks back retrospectively upon ten dramatic years of the festival's event organization. The history captures a unique dialogue from journalists, musicians, dj's, and even local public officials who were instrumental in providing the first annual event - often regarded as its most illustrious - in addition to the cast of individuals in charge of it's production over the years, leading up to current producer's, Paxahau.

Great read, especially for those who have visited or plan to visit the festival in the future. check it HERE.

* Photo Cred: Robert Emperley