> Friday night
> dan bell, claude young djing (he is really that good,
> as good as mills, even with the sound system
> sounding as sick/gnarly as it did)
Very very glad to hear this -- I've never caught Claude Young before, and he's playing here in Minnie on Saturday (for FREE!). Dan Bell was tops on my list of people to catch this year that I didn't end up hearing.
> Orlando Vorn tore it up hiphop style technobass
> mixing. Barbara Preisinger (scape rec.) was a let
> down gliche can suck.
Completely agreed on both fronts. In terms of pure turntable skills, Orlando was the best I heard all weekend -- excellent track selection, too. Joris Voorn's live PA immediately preceding was also stellar, very deep harder techno. Barbara unfortunately killed the vibe very quickly -- the system cut out during her first track, that may or may not have been her fault, but I had to get out of there after she proceded to slaughter the next four mixes.
> cheers detroit, thanks for the good times. I am never staying
> at the shorecrest again.
Damn -- I was thinking about staying there next year. The Omni has dicked us over for the last time.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2004 9:02 pm Subject: (313) detroit, I do mind-trippin, movement 2004> Friday night
> dan bell, claude young djing (he is really that good,
> as good as mills, even with the sound system
> sounding as sick/gnarly as it did), claude young doing an
> inpromptu live jam with shawn rudiman then to a late
> night after after hours for gratuitous tweaking
> teenagers and minimal funk.
>
> Then saturday to the festival, dj 3000 rocked the
> floor from submerge. Scared of roving meatheads and
> always getting stupid comments from semi-retarded
> white people, sorry the jock midwesterners make it
> seem like the gene pool for a lot of these people has
> become too small. Personal vow, do not stay at the
> festival till the very end.
>
> Saturday night, cheap ass 5 dollar jam with mike
> ranson, excellent techdubminimal dj and dj dez from
> electrofunk. At a bar that used to be a speak easy on
> a street with 5 new bars/nightclubs that were not
> there last year. Gentrification anyone.
>
> Sunday, ah the beauty of the festival, tweaky raver
> kids juxtaposed next to african american families.
> Significant ear damage in the underground stage, is
> bass supposed to make my organs feel like that?
> Orlando Vorn tore it up hiphop style technobass
> mixing. Barbara Preisinger (scape rec.) was a let
> down gliche can suck. Other systems holding down the
> house, funk, and sort of boring whatever hiphopjazz.
> But I did discover a web of smaller systems playing
> great music that clensed my soul, breakcore, dnb,
> hiphopelectrofunk, gothexperimental, and other stuff
> were being jacked on 7 or so mid sized rigs. The
> breakcore made my f*cking day.
>
> Sunday night Dan Bell for two hours at the lamest
> techno party that I have been to (since the last one
> in sanfrancisco) in a long time. No disrespect to techno,
> but honey you get repetative and redundant and boring
> when you don't get all mixed up with divergent sounds. But
> dan bell was great to hear lay down the foundation of
> tracked out funk. started getting sick, how do people
> smoke so many cigs in unventalated spaces?
>
> Midwest dude at hotel, "got any pills man?', my
> response, "I am turning 33 this year the only pills I
> take are tylenol and ibuprofin." The truth of getting
> older.
>
> Monday day, Electrofunk live, live booty tech f*ck
> yeah.
>
> Hart plaza is so cool, there is a giant labor
> sculpture. It has lots of great quotes around it
> including some by emma goldman, mother jones, joe
> hill, and all sorts of uplifting good stuff. It is
> one of my personal highlights from being at the
> festival. Seeing all that there, as part of a city's
> heritage, part of all our heritage. Things like that
> are hard to find on city owned spaces.
>
> All this stuff that happened up to monday was sort of
> like foreplay for me. I was mainly really excited
> about the Underground Resistance party. It was
> highlighted by the first UR band live set in the
> states in 10+ years. It was also a benefit for a new
> community space that both houses an info shop/punk
> vibe and a strong feeling of being linked to the
> african american community. The benefit was to put a
> roof and establish a multi media teaching/users lab.
> It was really a great vibe at that party, Michigan IMC
> was there. It made me feel the connection that a
> bunch of us seem to have in what we put energy into.
> Good stuff. The UR live set was amazing, there were
> 5-7 people playing including mike banks. It covered
> their past releases and current work, musically it
> went from Acid to techno to house to jazz to gospel
> (minus vocals) to funk to hiphop. But it really
> linked it all up, with an incredible sense of place
> and of history of music and what it really means to
> us. If the chains of life hold me down, music can
> still set me free. I love it when you see a show and
> there is so much love and respect between the audience
> and the performers, it creates a majickal space where
> things can really open up. It was a good party but I
> was done, flip me over, but I did get to browse their
> info shop at 5am, very cool stuff.
>
> Before leaving detroit, we went to the Cass Coop Food
> Market, and it was very disturbing. They are on the
> verge of disappearing forever. There are 2 maybe
> three grocery stores in detroit. This is the only one
> that carries organic whole foods, and it has been
> active in the community for nearly 30 years. It could
> be gone and then what, people in detriot will have to
> shop in the suburbs for food. It is sad to see.
>
> Detroit is changing, it is not the city that it was a
> mere four years ago, and from what people tell me it
> looks almost completely different from what it was 10
> years ago. Weird gentrification has started, lofts,
> clubs names oslo, corpfortresses (er. office parks),
> creeping redevelopment, Casinos, but it is still good
> to see some money slipping back into the city. It
> doesn't seem like it is trickling down, on the people
> that I know that live there. But hopefully some of
> the local artists will get more due in their hometown.
> From living in a city that gentriified and had alot of young
> people with dosh, learn from my dj mistakes buy progressive or
> jazzy house records and wear liesure suits.
> Rents are still cheap for all you aspiring casino
> hounds, 4 bedroom flats as cheap as 85$ a month.
> There are brilliant people there, and a lot of
> friendly people who aren't pretenious.
> cheers detroit, thanks for the good times. I am never staying
> at the shorecrest again.
> tom
>
