As the birthplace of techno, it's no surprise that Detroit also plays host to one of North America's most prominent dance music festivals (voted the #1 most anticipated festival of 2013 by Beatport and the top festival in May 2013 by Resident Advisor). Founded in 2000 and renamed in 2006, the thirteenth annual Movement , or Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) , will take over Hart Plaza in just a few weeks from May 25 through May 28 . With a lineup filled to the brim with obvious legends and hometown favourites, cutting down to our top 12 was not an easy [...]
New York’s underground party brand Verboten has quite the summer in store for the New York dance music faithful. Kicking things off on the Fourth of July, they plan to throw a festival style event on the waterfront of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, with the opening event to feature Sasha, Maya Jane Coles, Davide Squillace and Bill Patrick. The second event will take place on July 27 th and will host Luciano, Carl Craig, and Moodymann. These names are some of the biggest and best in the underground world, and we can’t wait to see what [...]
Last year saw the release of Dillatroit , an under-the-radar posthumous vinyl album that was put out under the moniker Dilla Dog. The label that put that out, Mahogani, now has plans of liberating J Dilla 's Lost Tapes . The label is fronted by Moodymann, a Detroit house musician who apparently had a connection with Dilla back in the day. [ via ] The details are blurry right now, but the Lost Tapes have a release date set for April 10. It is also unclear as to what these tracks are going [...]
Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival dropped their phase 2 lineup today, and we can already tell this year's event is going to be bigger and better than ever before. To add on to the techno-heavy phase 1 announcement , the folks at Paxahau have gathered a diverse cast of live acts, deep house and tech house DJs, and eclectic beatmakers. Nicolas Jaar , Azari & III , TEED , and others will bring their acclaimed live shows to Hart Plaza, while revered DJs from a variety of scenes, such as Matt [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , RPM , News Today, Oh Boy! , New Music , New Releases Hayley Madden, Redferns Four Tet has released a free collection of his rare productions from 1997 - 2001, entitled 0181 , which you can download for free. [ SoundCloud ] Parisian multi-talent Joakim has announced that he will be launching a vinyl-only label called Crowdspacer, starting [...]
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? After 2 months of silence, Resistance is back. When everything is the same, yet something meaningful has been lost. Where has it disappeared to? Was the abstraction of meaning just an illusion? In case you've been wondering, I have been asking unanswerable questions and desiring the impossible in the meanwhile. (I've also been having fun playing around with my own bleeps and noises, some of which you can listen to here ) [...]
Il semble qu'en ces temps difficiles toute une société regarde vers son passé comme pour se rappeler combien il était réconfortant d'être bercé dans les bras d'une mère. La nostalgie est le sentiment emblématique de ces années de crise et elle n'épargne pas la musique. On peut le regretter tant il est vrai que pour certains producteurs cela consiste à décliner sans créativité aucune les canons inventés par d'autres en leur temps mais on ne saurait nier que d'autres se servent à merveille de leurs penchants nostalgiques pour transcender des tracks on ne peut plus contemporains en leur insufflant une [...]
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When VIA, Pittsburgh's Music and New Media Festival, began two years ago, the organizers created a space to showcase the intersection between art and music using atypical venues in the city to host the performances. For the 2012 VIA festival, the promoters chose to host a decentralized festival to accommodate the bigger acts and crowds, while maintaining intimacy for the smaller events. The festival itself ran from October 1 to October 6, but I only attended the weekend events. The biggest events of the weekend nights were held at a former PNC Bank location which is scheduled to be demolished [...]
VIA Festival, an annual festival in Pittsburgh, launched in 2010 and highlights the intersection between entertainment and art, with over 100 musicians and 60 visual artists from Pittsburgh and nine countries gracing the stage since VIA's inception. This October 1st-6th, VIA presents what's next in music alongside a smattering of pioneers, representing a wide range of genres from noise, experimental electronic sounds, house music, and beyond. Re-framing city spaces, the 2012 festival showcases several unique spaces around the city including a former PNC Bank (soon to be demolished) and the re-purposed 6119 venue. Cutting edge experimentation is key in the [...]
That dude Free Magic really knows what he's doing when he shares tunes on Facebook. A prime example of that is the recent posting of Moodymann's "People", a Jazzy single off of his Silence In The Secret Garden LP. Feels good, man.
One of London’s most forward thinking club nights celebrates five years of being just that on Saturday 13th October when Deviation puts on a star-studded line-up, headlined by Detroit House icon... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
[ KDJ ] Let's all take a moment to thank Kenny Dixon Jr. Not necessarily for his music, although that's still as well and fine as it's ever been. Rather, it's really the man's unaffected cool that really deserves our adoration. Within a culture that only seems to champion head-down anonymity, it's almost refreshing to have someone so effortlessly capable of offsetting that sternness - disarming our collective geekdom by reminding us that roller jams can [...]
Stream: Moodymann - “Live at Metamorphose ‘09” 2+ hours of Moodymann is just the right amount of Moodymann. Unless it was, like, 3+ or 4+ or something.
Ginuwine Detroit techno is about as hard to come by these days as authentic artistry really although Kenny Dixon Jr., aka Moodymann has contrived to retain his every ability and with it all credibility over a clutch of decades already. Picked up off the A-side to an EP released last month, Why Do U Feel is a subtly emotive house thump combining the crackly static of timeless 12" mix vox with an unsuspecting, if unexpectedly crestfallen backing. The line "You'd be happy somewhere else/ I don't believe it" pretty well sums this one up as if you're looking [...]
Some straight up jams on this fine record by The Noodleman . Way down in the super-slow zone, Sloppy Angel is a proper sex-drenched cut with a slammer of a bassline that I really wanna track down. There's some nice dubbed out goodness on the B, but for me it'll be this side that gets a rinsing - and has already. Quality erotic disco funk. The Noodleman - Sloppy Angel [ buy ] A beauty of a Bjørn Torske tune here which Tamas Jones kindly put me onto. This [...]
A Red Bull Music Academy Radio – plataforma que acaba de ser alvo de uma profunda renovação – irá disponibilizar via streaming em direto as atuações que a Academia leva até ao palco do Neopop no próximo dia 11 de Agosto. Pelo segundo ano consecutivo, a Red Bull Music Academy volta a assegurar a curadoria da noite de encerramento do festival Neopop que decorre no Forte de Santiago da Barra, em Viana do Castelo. A música que Scuba , Moodymann , Julio Bashmore [...]
Stop looking at it and listen to this; Moodymann's remix of Pollyn's 'Sometimes You Just Know' is pretty perfect. Big everywhere. Sometimes You Just Know (Moodymann Remix) by Pollyn
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , News Today, Oh Boy! , New Music , New Releases , Spinner Says Philistine Check out Matthew Dear 's new Kenneth Anger-inspired video for "Her Fantasy," the lead single from his forthcoming album Beams . [ YouTube ] Ever wish you could watch Steve Aoki adjust the volume/throw cakes/ride an inflatable boat while Duran Duran play their [...]
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