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was reading what you wrote about the ndatl party, and wanted to share, everybody i brought to the 1515 broadway party agrees with you, one of the best parties of their lives. we missed larry heard's set, but kai and theo brought the heat. that party had such a good vibe. 2 out of the last 3 years ive been to that party, was one of the best nights out. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Denise Dalphond ddalp...@umail.iu.edu wrote: Okay, so I've finally finished my festival reporting. http://www.denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com/ Suzanne, I'm so glad you made it down to YaDigg!! -- Denise Dalphond Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore Ethnomusicology Indiana University http://denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com/
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Ben Sims was in Detroit, I was chatting to him at the festival. He flew all the way there yet no-one contacted him. Gary Girard | Product Support Specialist | RWD Technologies | www.rwd.com 1 Furzeground Way, Stockley Park East, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB11 1BD Join the RWD Products Users Group on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=1937582) Follow RWD Products on Twitter (http://twitter.com/RWDProducts) -Original Message- 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
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Okay, so I've finally finished my festival reporting. http://www.denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com/ Suzanne, I'm so glad you made it down to YaDigg!! -- Denise Dalphond Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore Ethnomusicology Indiana University http://denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com/
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Yup - I enjoyed all the reports - thanks for the info guys Jason On 2 June 2010 14:35, kent williams chaircrus...@gmail.com wrote: I read and enjoyed your reports. I think a lack of feedback is easy to mistake for being ignored ;-) On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Jacob Arnold ja...@gridface.com wrote: Since I didn't get any responses to part 1, I didn't post parts 2 and 3 of my daily reports to the list, but there are some photos if anyone's interested: http://www.gridface.com/features/demf_2010_2.html http://www.gridface.com/features/demf_2010_3.html It was tricky to see people, especially Moritz. On most of the stages, they put the performers really far back this year, and the media pass was separate from the media stage pass. Cheers, Jacob
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Jacob, I enjoyed your reports too. I'm impressed with your speediness at getting posts up!! It was great to meet you this weekend. Sorry to hear about the media pass distinctions. I didn't realize that. The stages were much emptier this year. I think the artists were complaining last year about too many people up on the stages. So I'm glad they took care of that this year. Although, how I would love to just be able to be right up there with my face up close to all the instruments - esp Moritz von Oswald trio - to be able to actually see what I was hearing. I'm slowly getting my act together. Just put my first festival post up last night. I'll be adding bits nightly for the next little while. http://denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com/2010/06/movement-festival-2010-happiness.html I'm beginning to accept the fact that I have more fun outside of Hart Plaza than inside. But that's fine. Plenty of good music to enjoy this year at the festival. Moritz von Oswald Trio was excellent. Got to see Carl Craig play modular synth twice in one weekend! I don't have much time to write much more at the moment, got to get working on other stuff...like a dissertation. Denise -- Denise Dalphond Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore Ethnomusicology Indiana University http://denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com/
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I only went to the festival Saturday… and I could see the way things were headed so I chose to skip it the rest of the weekend, and instead hit TV Bar Sunday during the day, and Old Miami on Monday. I must say I have no regrest with my decision… TV Bar was pretty good when I arrived though it died out a bit early as people headed to the festival. But the Old Miami day party just has a vibe that nothing else during the weekend seems to replicate, and I quite enjoyed the music there this year too, it seems to be quite a bit better than it was last year. The previously mnml guys seem to be coming around, and to my ears the tracks being played now actually have a pretty nice house vibe and some funk to them. The Hot Natured disco party may have also been good, as it was pretty fun last year, but sadly I was too tired to catch it. ~David
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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, and along with the whole police thing made Saturday was a miss for me all around. Sunday - Interdimensional Transmission Party - Great venue, and an awesome crew. They've thrown some of my favorite demf-related parties (Cannonball Run) and I had an amazing time. The main room was a sweatbox though, but aside from that quite fun music and a great atmosphere. Metroplex - Didn't catch it, and none of my friends did, have yet to hear how it went. Old Miami - Apparently the place to be now? I went to it a few years ago for the early morning party and had an amazing time. Was a lot of fun,
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Since I didn't get any responses to part 1, I didn't post parts 2 and 3 of my daily reports to the list, but there are some photos if anyone's interested: http://www.gridface.com/features/demf_2010_2.html http://www.gridface.com/features/demf_2010_3.html It was tricky to see people, especially Moritz. On most of the stages, they put the performers really far back this year, and the media pass was separate from the media stage pass. Cheers, Jacob On Jun 2, 2010, at 5:15 AM, kuszyn...@gmail.com wrote: 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, and along with the whole police thing made Saturday was a miss for me all
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I read and enjoyed your reports. I think a lack of feedback is easy to mistake for being ignored ;-) On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Jacob Arnold ja...@gridface.com wrote: Since I didn't get any responses to part 1, I didn't post parts 2 and 3 of my daily reports to the list, but there are some photos if anyone's interested: http://www.gridface.com/features/demf_2010_2.html http://www.gridface.com/features/demf_2010_3.html It was tricky to see people, especially Moritz. On most of the stages, they put the performers really far back this year, and the media pass was separate from the media stage pass. Cheers, Jacob On Jun 2, 2010, at 5:15 AM, kuszyn...@gmail.com wrote: 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
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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, and along with the whole police thing made Saturday was a miss for me all around. Sunday - Interdimensional Transmission Party - Great venue, and an awesome crew. They've thrown some of my favorite demf-related parties (Cannonball Run) and I had an amazing time. The main room was a sweatbox though, but aside from that quite fun music and a great atmosphere. Metroplex - Didn't catch it, and none of my friends did, have yet to hear how it went. Old Miami - Apparently the place to be now? I went to it a few years ago for the early morning party and had an amazing time. Was a lot of fun, good food, and very reasonably populated (room to hang out, dance, and have conversations). By the time I got there this year there were like 500 people wall-to-wall, and a line around the block. Thankfully with the onset of rain and the threat of the fire-dept people the majority cleared out as the music was turned off. I stuck it out with my friends and soon things were back in action. Some dancing in the rain followed. Great times. Monday Night - Poker at the casino (haha). So all in all I had fun, but I feel decidedly different from years past where I felt I had to make difficult decisions all day long, choosing between pairs or three artists at a time that I felt I needed to see. I hope everyone that went had a blast thought! -Art
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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, and along with the whole police thing made Saturday was a miss for me all around. Sunday - Interdimensional Transmission Party - Great venue, and an awesome crew. They've thrown some of my favorite demf-related parties (Cannonball Run) and I had an amazing time. The main room was a sweatbox though, but aside from that quite fun music and a great atmosphere. Metroplex - Didn't catch it, and none of my friends did, have yet to hear how it went. Old Miami - Apparently the place to be now? I went to it a few years ago for the early morning party and had an amazing time. Was a lot of fun, good food, and very reasonably populated (room to hang out, dance, and have conversations). By the time I got there this year there were like 500 people wall-to-wall, and a line around the block. Thankfully with the onset of rain and
