On 4 deadlines so I'll try to keep this brief.
Paxahau have technically been down since 1992/1993.
the "Jasons" [Clark and Huvaere] have been promoting stuff in DOWNTOWN
Detroit for as long as I can remember. I met them either the first or
second time I was there... maybe it was Journey to the Hardcore II at
Majestic, Dec 31 1992? [BFC live, Inner City live, Altern 8 live, Jeff
Mills, Eddie Flashin' Fowlkes, Rob Hood and a few others. not a bad
party].
Other promoters like Poor Boy [Dot, Jon Santos, Brian Gillespie], Voom
[Steven Raume, Eric, etc], and Syst3m [Dean] were also instrumental in
doing parties, but to be honest, almost all of these people were from
nearby suburbs like Warren, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Troy, Hamtramck, etc.
Paxahau were first really known as Richie's cult, kinda because they
all were shaving their heads. I was too, but it was because I had hair
down past my chin, I mistakenly tried to do dreadlocks my freshman
year at OSU, it didn't work, so I shaved it. Thankfully it all grew
back in mid 1995.
They had a loft space at 1217 Woodward for a few years and it was the
site of many a loft party - I played in late 1993 as a guest with D.
Wynn and I'm honored to have had the induction / introduction to
Detroit through them, by way of Brian Gillespie, Dot, Paris da Black
Fu and Jon Santos..
They were also part of the +8 crew and helped do production for many
of Richie's legendary Heaven & Hell parties from 1993-1995.
Then they started streaming shows from their ionized basement in
Ferndale, and organizing events at Motor, Panacea, and the Masonic
Temple. They are definitely bringing something to the table, whether
you like it or not.
They're historically speaking not representing the blackest side of
Detroit, but they have respect for all of Detroit's flavors of talent,
and they are a little more business-minded than some of the other
promoters / festival organizers in the past. I think if they didn't
step up to the plate last year, we might not have a festival this
year. I trust that they will deliver a good show, regardless of what
you think of all of the talent; there's still always something for
everyone and at least, you don't have to clone yourself and try to
see 4 stages at once; maybe you can sleep in, go visit the city, eat
something, or have time to complain about it online here.
+odd
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On Mar 26, 2008, at 12:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, that's just it isn't it - the suburbanites
I've read Paxahau being described as the "suburban promoters"
Can anyone give some history/background on Paxahau?
MEK
"U&I Design" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/26/2008
11:03:19
AM:
I can't say I've ever heard Benny Benassi play... but what I do
remember is seeing the massive line outside of Bleu here in Detroit
the night that he was booked. There was easily 400 people standing
outside waiting to get in. That's very untypical of Detroit events.
I mean, those numbers do happen, my event Dec 30th had over 450
people
through the door, but I also had 3 rooms with 10 artists on the bill.
More than 400 people for one Electronic Music Artist... thats really
rare in this city... so as much as I cringed when I saw his name on
the bill, from a business standpoint, it makes sense to put him on,
cos he will draw a large crowd of Detroit (most likely) suburbanites.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Kowalsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Benny Benassi... i never saw him spinning. But my hopes are not
high,
once i've already heard his tunes around the city and in the clubs.
He is one of the DJs always booked for mega rich boy/college/high
school events here in Brazil as "the number one of the world".
Well... there was a lot of number ones playing in this kind of
parties here. Tiesto... Paul Van Dik. You name it. A lot of people
in
"number one" position at the same time.
When things get too absurd, they say that "this john doe is the
number two..." (!!!).
On 25/03/2008, at 18:41, António Alves wrote:
benny benassi o_O
If Portugal >>> USA and back wasn't so fcking expensive I'd fo for
these alone:
ALTON MILLER
BUZZ GOREE
CARL CRAIG
CASSY
COBBLESTONE JAZZ ?live
DBX ?live
EGYPTIAN LOVER ?live
GUILLAUME & THE COUTU DUMONTS -live
MIKE GRANT
MINX
NEWCLEUS -live
TERRENCE PARKER
ZIP
you lucky americans! Enjoy :)
Antonio
