Re: (313) Call to action with respect to putting Detroit Artists in the concrete dungeon at DEMF

2010-05-01 Thread kent williams
The sound down there will always suck. There's a reason that the great concert halls of the world are not reinforced concrete boxes. And it smells bad down there too. What it would take to fix the space would be several tens of thousands of dollars of acoustic treatment. And it would still be an

Re: (313) Call to action with respect to putting Detroit Artists in the concrete dungeon at DEMF

2010-05-01 Thread kuszynski
Agreed - stating that "underground" music, as a meaning of outside of the mainstream and fulfilling an alternative vernacular, does not mean it has to be relegated to a stage "underground" I.e in a nasty basement with kids on drugs rubbing their sweaty nasty on you (as opposed to the good o

Re: (313) Call to action with respect to putting Detroit Artists in the concrete dungeon at DEMF

2010-05-01 Thread darnistle
If Paxahau has finally done something to address the truly awful acoustics of the underground stage then I'll be impressed, but I don't have high hopes that that space will sound any less horrendous than it has every time I've gone down there. The fact that "Detroit techno has always been unde

RE: (313) Call to action with respect to putting Detroit Artists in the concrete dungeon at DEMF

2010-04-30 Thread John Sokolowski
Has anyone seen the setup of the Detroit stage this year? Has anyone heard the sound? Let's reserve judgment until we see/hear the results shall we? And looking at the line up I see real Detroit artists on all of the stages. Personally, I kind of like that the Detroit stage is underground. Detr