10 Reasons You Have to Attend Movement Festival
Memorial Day Weekend marks the start of the insane summer festival season when dance music pandemonium sweeps the nation week after week. As Movement Electronic Music Festival enters its fifteenth year, we take a look at the historic Paxahau event, and what makes this event such a dance music gem.
Carol Marvin and Detroit Electronic Music Festival plan free festival for July 4th 2014
Early this morning during a press conference held at Ford Field in Detroit, Carol Marvin, one of the original producer's of the now defunct Detroit Electronic Music Festival, announced the brand's return to the birthplace of techno this coming summer. Not to be confused with Movement, the festival oftentimes fondly referred to as DEMF, Marvin's festival plans to lay its foundation at Campus Martius Park in Detroit over the July 4th weekend -- directly competing with nearby Wavefront held the same weekend. According to Marvin; “A city like Detroit should arguably have 10 electronic music festivals, and this will be one of them," noting that the festival will be completely free, much the same way the original was when it began in 2000.
Understanding high tech soul: why Detroit techno matters for the EDM generation
The word “techno” has certainly taken on its fair share of interpretations in the course of its history. It is undeniably culturally significant not only to devotees of electronic music, but also to understanding the trajectory of the world’s aural history as we know it. As the new generation of dance music lovers, we owe it to ourselves to understand the place from which we came.