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Movement 2008: Detroit Electronic Music Festival, is a festival in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Here you will find Beatportal's live blog from Movement 2008 including videos, interviews, DJ news and photos

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Movement 2008 sets the festival bar high

17 June, 2008 | 7.09PM

Written by: Sarah O
Filed under: Music News: movement 2008

Movement 2008: Detroit Electronic Music Festival went off fabulously last month, and if the good times and choice music alone wasn’t enough, then the real proof is in the numbers.

Paxahau, a promotions group within the electronic music industry and the producers of the three-day festival, have just revealed that attendance from this year’s festival was unprecedented, having far exceeded the set goal of 60,000, and in fact hitting the 80,000 mark.

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Check out a chart for the Movement 2008 Beatport Stage

Dubfire’s Top 10 DJ chart

4 June, 2008 | 7.28AM

Written by: Zack Rico
Filed under: Music News: movement 2008

Dubfirehttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif finished off Detroit’s Movement 2008 in supreme style [check the 7 minute video we found on YouTube!], and he’s just uploaded a DJ chart to Beatport containing some killer techno and minimal cuts.

With tracks from Tobias, Heartthrob, Rekorder and Florian Meindi his chart represents the driving, dark techno sound he’s been pushing lately.

Check out Dubfire’s Top 10 DJ chart in the player after the break, and the video of him ripping up Detroit.

Movement ends, but the memories remain

30 May, 2008 | 9.15AM

Written by: Christen Reutens
Filed under: Music News: movement 2008

Movement festival is probably the best large scale electronic music event I’ve been to in the United States.

Everything from the organization, to the line-ups, the festival site, the soundsystems and the music was perfect (the sunny weather helped too).

Movement’s organisers Paxahau really looked after the artists, press and workers behind the scenes by offering top quality catering and free drinks for all.

Even the cops got buffet lunch and dinners.

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Transitions at Movement 2008 festival

29 May, 2008 | 9.17PM

Written by: Amanda Connon-Unda
Filed under: Music News: john selway konrad black movement paul ritch

With a smorgasbord of artists on the bill, Movement: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) was full of people there for all sorts of music.

This year artists ranged from some old school solid performers to new school innovative producers such as Carl Craig, Alex Under, Konrad Black, Kenny Larkin, The Cool Kids, Cobblestone Jazz, and Oscar Mulero.

Paxahau, the festival organizer, did a great job selecting sponsors for its stages to create several diverse areas with varied genres to attract different crowds.

One look at the official lineup reveals what the festival attendees dress code showed us.

Energetic young people in army fatigues and colored hair gathered for drum n’ bass, scenesters in high top sneakers gathered for the electro/hip hop sounds of The Cool Kids, and industry types gathered near the backstage areas of the main stage for the minimal techno sounds found on the beatport stage.

Although this may be the wave of the future, it is also reminiscent of the way older parties used to be set up, when the sounds of jungle, house, and techno were all under one roof.

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Lee Burridge cuts up Movement 2008

28 May, 2008 | 3.43AM

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: lee burridge movement 2008

Lee Burridgehttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif is such a nice guy.

He turned up to Movement festival in Detroit full of energy and smiles (check after the jump for a video of him rocking the decks), despite the fact he was super tired from spinning in Australia a few days ago.

Along with his record bags Lee also carried a saw, which he had found behind one of the stages at Movement.

Movement 2008 video: Josh Wink drops a bomb

28 May, 2008 | 12.22AM

Written by: Zack Rico
Filed under: Music News: josh wink movement 2008

Here’s a video of Josh Winkhttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif dropping a super-sized tech house bomb at Detroit’s Movement 2008 festival, a track that features a lush African-sounding male vocal.

The crowd went insane when Josh Wink played this track, and after his set Beatportal scrambled to the DJ booth to find out its name.

It’s a Henrik Schwartz track, but we didn’t manage to remember its title (it was late in the day, and the drinking finally caught up with us).

Does anyone recognize the track? (click through to watch the video!)

Meet…Grandma Techno

27 May, 2008 | 3.30PM

Written by: Zack Rico
Filed under: Music News: movement 2008

“They call me Grandma Techno,” explained the lady in the motorized scooter.

She was down towards the front of the Beatport stage at Movement festival in Detroit, bopping her head along to the tripped out tech house beats of Lee Burridge.

Detroit’s Movement festival attracts all ages and there were plenty of children and families present at the event, but seeing a lady in her 60s in a granny cart was something we didn’t expect.

Konrad Black drops new mix of Mathew Jonson ‘Marionette’

26 May, 2008 | 12.51AM

Written by: Zack Rico
Filed under: Videos: konrad black, movement 2008

Here’s a video I filmed of Konrad Blackhttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif playing a new mix of Mathew Jonsonhttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif ‘Marionette’.

‘Marionette’ is one of the most beautiful techno records of all time in my humble opinion, and this new mix is a bit more minimal and darker than the melodic, melancholic original.

Anyone know what mix this is?

Heartthrob’s debut artist album

25 May, 2008 | 5.45PM

Written by: Zack Rico
Filed under: Music News: heartthrob movement 2008

Just a few moments ago I met Heartthrobhttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif aka Jesse Siminski, who’s something of an American minimal werewolf now living in Paris.

Heartthrob moved to Paris “because Europe’s electronic music scene is well established and developed.”

Heartthrob revealed that his debut artist album ‘Dear Painter, Paint Me’ is set for release June 30th on Minushttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif http://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_l.gif records and is “a collection of tracks that I’ve very proud of.”

The porn star afterparty

25 May, 2008 | 1.01PM

Written by: Industry Boy
Filed under: Music News: jonni darkko movement 2008

Last night, after the Minushttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif http://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_l.gif party at St. Andrews Hall, we headed back to the hotel for a little afterparty.

Amongst the crew gathered in the hotel room was Los Angeles-based porn director Jonni Darkko, who is one of the biggest hardcore porn directors in the business.

Jonni is actually a techno producer and DJ on the side, and interestingly he composes the soundtrack for all his films.

“Minimal techno and tech house go very well with sex,” explained Jonni.

Hanging out with Jonni was porn actress Tory Lane (who apparently is quite famous for anyone who knows porn).

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Movement 2008 club review: Minus Contakt afterparty

25 May, 2008 | 12.12PM

Written by: Zack Rico
Filed under: Music News: movement 2008

Last night outside St. Andrews Hall in Detroit there was practically a riot, as ticket holders, guestlisted industry heads and techno fans scrambled to get inside the Minushttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif http://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_l.gif Contakt afterparty for Movement 2008.

With a capacity of around 1000, and with the Minus crew touting their mysterious Cube concept, the demand for tickets was catastrophic.

From the Hawtin’s mouth: Richie explains The Cube

25 May, 2008 | 10.26AM

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: movement 2008

Last night at the Minushttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif http://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_l.gif afterparty in Detroit at St. Andrews Hall, Beatportal spotted Richie Hawtinhttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif hanging out by the bar.

So we grabbed the famous techno DJ and asked him about the mysterious Cube, which he and Minus crew are promoting as a new club concept.

Here’s what Richie Hawtin had to say about The Cube.

Deadmau5 the superstar

25 May, 2008 | 2.49AM

Written by: Zack Rico
Filed under: Music News: movement 2008

Deadmau5http://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif has just finished playing on the Beatport stage at Movement 2008, and his live set was really impressive.

Whilst Deadmau5 is known for his huge electro house and progressive hits, he tailored his music for the Detroit techno audience, dropping dark throbbing techno cuts and wicked driving tech house.

It shows that Deadmau5 is a shrewd producer, able to generate all kinds of music.

After his set, he climbed on top of the DJ booth (much to the delight of the crowd) and signaled at them to show some appreciation.

Moby rocks Movement 2008

25 May, 2008 | 1.43AM

Written by: Christen Reutens
Filed under: Music News: moby movement 2008

‘Nobody listens to techno’ Eminem claimed in his famous hate message to Mobyhttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif (one of many), but the vegan DJ and simpleton producer just rocked the mainstage of Movement 2008 to thousands of fans.

Moby dropped a mixture of techno and electro house, including cuts from The Chemical Brothers, and the crowd loved him for it.

I filmed a video of Moby tearing up the main stage of Movement, check it after the jump!

Daft Punk arrested at Movement 2008

25 May, 2008 | 1.02AM

Written by: Zack Rico
Filed under: Music News: movement 2008

We captured this photo of one of the Daft Punkhttp://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif boys just seconds before Detroit police jumped and handcuffed the French house duo.

After a large scuffle between Daft Punk’s entourage and police, the cops agreed to let Daft Punk go if the pair admitted that they weren’t in fact, harder, better, faster or stronger than the police.