as has been said, its not a detroit techno festival, its detroits electronic
music festival. and Im glad. a yearly festival dedicated to any sub-genre
would get boring and increasingly hard to market.
detroit has more people on the lineup than any one other city by FAR, so
you, being a fan of detroit techno, should be happy with that.
this list needs to snap out of this demf-is-a-celebration-of-detroit-techno
mindset, because it just leads to cyclical wastes of time in the form of all
this whining about lineups
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Subject: Re: (313) 4 more Movement acts
> Mark Farina
> Lawnchair Generals
> Miles Maeda
> Punisher
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> good god - for every one good act they add three crap ones
I don't have a problem with any of those. I've known Mark
since 1992, haven't seen MM but like some of his, and I have a
pretty high regard for some of the LG output, which is made of
sterner stuff than most west coast house these days.
And of course Punisher has always been good when I've seen her,
and remember she stood well above the relentless mediocrity at
the underground stage one year.
My bigger problem is the continuing de-focus on Detroit in the
lineup. Yes, there are some Detroit area artists on the list,
and good for them, but overall it just doesn't have the breadth
and depth it should given who's within local driving distance of
the festival. And this isn't just conjecture about what it could
be, it's about what it was when you go back and look at the first
couple of years.
fh
