Ben Sims was in Detroit, I was chatting to him at the festival. He flew all the
way there yet no-one contacted him.
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From: kuszyn...@gmail.com [mailto:kuszyn...@gmail.com]
Sent: 02 June 2010 11:15
Cc: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: (313) DEMF Post-Op Thoughts
Thanks for the review folks.
Any more reflections are highly welcome, at least from me, as one of
those couldn't-make-it-this-year folks.
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Mr. jp j...@phreak.net wrote:
I second that it was not a great weekend overall, though sunday was a
great day at the fest, could stand against any other one day at DEMFs
I have known, of 6 for me. Overall, it was still a whole lot better
than '06, but that was the year Paxahau took over the fest last
minute. Sequence of performers, and stages the performers play on,
still is terrible, there's little flow conducive to dancing or even
chilling [why was Moritz on Red Bull, and not Beatport, for instance]-
Red Bull is like a spring break party stage, Beatport is great for
chillin with the nice grass and open view of the river]. Afterparties
were just above average too. Detroit Odyssey film fest on friday was
incredible, the J Dilla movie was so inspring, missed the first film
tho [cycles of the machine or whatever] Then Timeline [w/Mad Mike]
played a very soulful shorter set, more on the jazz tip with lots of
bright, ambitious sax solos, perfect ending, just great. The Omar-s
party later that night was so-so, disappointing after the raves last
year, ended early after 3am. Sat. day at the fest was disappointing,
Scion were good, tho muted, but the sound/setting didn't do them
justice.
My top were Orlando Voorn, Model 500 live, Shake, Rolando, ESP,
Starski and Clutch, Larry Heard and Kirk Degiorgio at the fest. Rob
Hood was too much mhs for me, but solid. Never saw him at Metroplex 25
year, or Sims either. DMX Krew never played at the afterparty at
Blondie's sat. night [wasted night]. Metroplex party had logistical
problems, only got to hear Sergeon, Stingray, Assault, and Juan, still
a good time tho, solid party, lots of jitters and jukers showing how
it's done. Monday was a big disappointment at the fest due to rain
cutting off sets in the afternoon, and mediocre sets too. Model 500
was awesome, mostly for the flow of the classics, some reworking to
make them snap, some hip hop courtesy of MC Nick Speed, who has a
forthcoming album on UR. The visuals were straight out of star trek,
the whole main stage audience was jumpin. Monday night I went to Oslo
for more jukin/jittin, was not as good a vibe as Metroplex, Assault
spun mostly the same set, still fun.
I'd do this weekend again but skip sat. at the fest, and the
afterparty at Blondie's. More on the trip from my Demented Scrawlings
From DEMF-twisted tales from the underbelly of Detroit, later.
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Arturo Lopez arturo.m.lo...@gmail.com wrote:
In case anyone is interested, my $0.02, a few highlights from the long
weekend:
Overall this was just a so-so fest for me. A few standouts here and
there but I wasn't blown away by the majority of the acts, but
definitely plenty of fun moments throughout. As usual the afterparties
were generally more entertaining than anything going on at the
festival proper.
Festival - Mark Ernestus was great, but I could still hear sound
bleeding from the stage behind the amphitheater, which was a bit
distracting. Enjoyed the reggae but as usual no one around to hear it
at that time of day. It's unfortunate with paxahau banishing all the
locals underground to the land of terrible sound quality, but caught a
few sets that were quite good (Shakir, R. Hood, etc). Larry Heard was
a lot of fun and was great to hear something more mellow for a Sunday
afternoon. Inner City was fun, probably the best way for me to
describe it.
Beatport Stage - Pardon my hatoraide but I couldn't listen to more
than about 30 seconds of that nonsense at any point over three days.
Thought the music was 90% junk. A lot of people on that stage thought
they were -very- cool, though. One of the only stages that each
performer needed to bring a 30 person entourage along with them to
populate the performance area. Lame.
Redbull Stage - As I've found over last few years there's always
something entertaining going on in that direction, even if I'm not a
fan of the music it seems like everyone is having a pretty good time
over there.
Afterparties - Center Street Social - Got shut down around 4-ish
before I really got into it. I never did get the whole story with all
the other drama associated with that party,
