Movement DEMF '07

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:43 pm

Sorry if this has already been posted, did a quick search and didn't see anything. There are two things that every year I say I am going to do but never actually end up doing. One is going to mutek, and the other is going to DEMF.

Well, three..... I also say I am going to start skateboarding again but that's for another thread/forum....

This year I think I am going to do it, load up the jeep and drive out to Detroit this May....

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In addition to Moodymann featuring Pitch Black City, Model 500, Jeff Mills, Booka Shade, and Octave One, the 2007 festival will feature the following artists (more artists to be announced):

A Guy Called Gerald - live
Abe Duque & Blake Baxter - live
Baby Ford & Zip
Booka Shade - live - First time in Detroit
Brian Sanhaji - live
Butane - live
Christian Smith
Claude VonStroke
Damian Lazarus
D. Diggler- live - First time in Detroit
Different World (Claude Young & Takasi Nakajima) - live
Digitaline - live - First time in Detroit
Gui Borrato - live - First time in Detroit
Guido Schneider - live - First time in Detroit
Hardfloor - live - First time in Detroit
Heidi
Jeff Mills
Kate Simko - live
King Britt
Mirko // Lazy Fat People
Loco Dice
Losoul - live - First time in Detroit
Luciano
Marco Carola
Mathew Jonson - live
Michael Mayer
Mistress Barbara
Model 500 - live featuring Juan Atkins
Monolake - live
Moodymann - live featuring Pitch Black City
Octave One featuring Random Noise Generation - live
Onur Ozer - live - First time in Detroit
Paco Osuna - live - First time in Detroit
Pepo Lanzoni
Pole - live
Rhythm & Sound - 6 hour dj/live with vocalists
Richie Hawtin
Robert Rich - live
Sassmouth
Scan 7 - live
Steve Bug
Anthony Shake Shakir
Stacey Pullen
Vladislav Delay - live

http://www.demf.com/overview.html
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I gotta do it man, it sucks being a techno head in Baltimore. I gotta make the pilgrimage to the techno mecca.....

Anyone going? Thomas?

ableton lover · Post by **ableton lover** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:26 pm

got hotels booked already for my friends and I. Can't wait!

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:31 pm

Where are you staying? Any reccomendations? The wife and I have never been to Detriot?

ableton lover · Post by **ableton lover** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:35 pm

smutek wrote:Where are you staying? Any reccomendations? The wife and I have never been to Detriot?

Try the Pontchartrain hotel in Detroit. Its right across from Hart Plaza (that's where the festival is) in downtown Detroit.

Rooms are about 299 a night but I have gone down the last 2 years and have splint each night with about at least 6 ppl (you can get 2 bed rooms). You can also cancel your reservations 24 hours prior of the day your suppose to check in.

Its a decent hotel and you can't go wrong with it being right across the street but it gets full very fast at that time of the year and the hotel turns into a 'debauchery party' full of fucked up kids!

Gotta love tho' Detroit ROCKS!!!

RIP Dilla

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:18 am

right on, thanks man!

jngpng · Post by **jngpng** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:55 am

No CC this year. That's a shame

nathannn · Post by **nathannn** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:26 am

i might go... i live in flint so its only 45 minutes away. are they charging this year? if so i will just hang out downtown and ride the monorail while monolake is playing so i can sneek a free veiw.

nathannn · Post by **nathannn** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:28 am

btw no one in detroit even knows that its known world wide for techno.. everyone here thinks detroit is known for rap cars and murder.

defmut · Post by **defmut** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:35 am

I'm going and staying at The Milner Hotel. $100/night for 2 beds. About a mile away from Hart Plaza. Can't wait!

Steve Christian · Post by **Steve Christian** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:21 pm

Great lineup and looking forward to that weekend but I was really hoping Ben Sims would be there. I need me some bangin loopy tribal techno which is a rare thing these days in the states.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:34 pm

Ooh. Hardfloor in detroit

Enjoy it while you can.
You don't get these guys to play Live every day.

But where is May, Saunderson, Atkins...?

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:17 pm

stay here!

http://marriott.com/hotels/travel/dtwdt ... _banner_mw

i might be there this year, i havn't been for a few years

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:19 pm

hoffman2k wrote: But ...Atkins...?

model 500

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:52 pm

mike holiday wrote:
hoffman2k wrote: But ...Atkins...?
model 500

Oh yeah cool. Missed that.
Sounds like a party to me

thelike5 · Post by **thelike5** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:58 pm

Oh weee...

All of these big names lose their luster the second you relaize you are surrounded by thousands wiggers who know nothing about any of them but are just there to pick up their female wigger counterparts and maybe steal a wallet or two. Seriously, they thought they had these problems beat by charging $15 a day or whatever vs. free but that clearly hasn't helped

Also, don't expect to be blown away musically by more then a couple artists. I've been going every year since the festival started and every year I'm really into seeing someone and they end up sucking all over the place. (Last years Orb performance comes to mind...)

This year I would be into seeing Jeff Mills as he hasn't played DEMF in a few good years but I'm not going. I'll do something else. I'm 30 years old now and I've honestly been getting a bit sick of it more each year. Outside of an amazing Collabs 3000 performance (Speedy J and Chris Liebing) nothing else I heard was even remotely close to euphoric. Poor to average more like it.

Take into consideration the afterparties. If you get a chance to attend, expect the place to be packed with drunk kids yelling at nothing. You will typically get a good performance though as it's much more exclusive and intimate setting and the artists are also getting paid a ton more to have private billing.

I much prefer a normal Paxahau event, anytime of the year. They truely are amazing promoters and I drive up there with a few friends at least 5 times a year still. The crowd is older, wiser and quality of the performance is 9/10 far better. I'm glad they took over doing DEMF and I do realize that there is nothing they can do to control the mess of the weekend.

I'd seriously like someone to tell me they don't agree that 90% of that place is actually there becuase they know who Vladislav Delay is...