2019 Movement Electronic Music Festival

The 2019 Movement Electronic Music Festival will take place in Detroit, Michigan on Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-27.

Introduction

The Movement Electronic Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Detroit, Michigan. The three-day event features dozens of live performances and DJ sets, as well as art installations and other interactive experiences.

Founded in 2000, the festival has been credited with helping to revitalize Detroit’s metropolitan area. In recent years, the event has drawn visitors from all over the world, with many attendees coming from Canada, Europe, and Asia.

The 2019 Movement Electronic Music Festival will take place from May 24th-26th at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit.

History

The Movement Electronic Music Festival is an annual event that takes place in Detroit, Michigan. The festival was first held in 2000, and has been held every year since then. The event is organized by Paxahau, a Detroit-based company that specializes in electronic music events.

Early years (2000-2010)

The first Movement Electronic Music Festival was held in 2000 in Detroit, Michigan. It was started by three friends who wanted to create a festival that would showcase the best in underground electronic music. The festival has grown exponentially in the years since, and now features over 100 artists from all over the world.

Movement has always been about more than just the music. The festival takes place in the city of Detroit, which has a long history of race relations and economic decline. The festival organizers have worked to make Movement a force for good in the city, and have partnered with local organizations to provide free community meals, health screenings, and more.

Expansion (2011-present)

In 2011, the festival moved to Hart Plaza, downtown Detroit on the Detroit Riverfront. Hart Plaza is a publicly owned park managed by the City of Detroit’s Department of Parks and Recreation. The site had previously been used for music festivals, including the Monster Bash Halloween festival and the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF).

The 2011 festival drew an estimated 75,000 people over three days, and featured over 140 performers. The lineup included Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Loco Dice, and more.

In 2012, the festival expanded to four days and drew an estimated 100,000 people. The lineup included headliners Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig, Nina Kraviz, Loco Dice, Maceo Plex, and more.

In 2013, the festival returned to three days and drew an estimated 85,000 people. The lineup included headliners Richie Hawtin, Marie Davidson & L’Oeil Nu (DJ set), Nina Kraviz, Marcel Dettmann & Ben Klock b2b set, Loco Dice b2b with Tale Of Us live PA set featuring special guest Martin Buttrich on drums. Other notable performers included: Amelie Lens , Dixon , Floorplan (Live PA) , Kevin Saunderson b2b Stacey Pullen , Laurent Garnier (LBSS) , Octave One (Live PA) , QRTR , Robert Hood Presents Floorplan Live , Seth Troxler & The Martinez Brothers (Tuskegee)

Location and Venues

The festival is held in Hart Plaza in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. The venue is an open area with three main stages that have been set up in previous years.

Hart Plaza

Hart Plaza is located on the Detroit riverfront, just below the level of the city. The site was originally a Native American trading post and later became a French fort. In 1805, it was turned over to the United States. The area did not see significant development until 1880, when city planner Albert Kahn designed a park that would serve as a gathering place for Detroiters. The park was named after Colonel Hart, who had donated the land to the city.

The plaza has been the site of many large events over the years, including the Woodward Dream Cruise, Taste of Detroit, and theMovement Electronic Music Festival. In recent years, it has become a popular spot for yoga classes and other fitness activities.

Belle Isle

Belle Isle is an island park in the Detroit River, between Michigan and Canada. The U.S.-Canada border is in the channel between Belle Isle and Wheatley Provincial Park in Ontario. The island is connected to mainland Detroit by the MacArthur Bridge. It is 982 acres (1.534 sq mi; 4.00 km2) in size and has been home to a Casino, a Nature Center, an airstrip, and more recently the Belle Isle Aquarium.

Other venues

In addition to the main festival site, there are a number of other venues that will be hosting events during the festival. These include:

-The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
-The Magic Stick
-TV Lounge
-Populux
-Cliff Bell’s
-The Majestic Theatre

Music

The Movement Electronic Music Festival is an annual event that takes place in Detroit, Michigan. The event is three days long and features over one hundred different musical acts. This year’s festival is taking place from May 24-26.

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that originated in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno in reference to a specific genre of music was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built.

Techno is generally repetitive instrumental music produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked by the primary beat structures (kick and snare). Often, producers use secondary loops (often sampled from earlier records) to create several layers within the track, resulting in a sound that develops over time.

The tempo of Techno ranges from 120bpm to 150bpm.

House

House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a tempo of 120 to 130 beats per minute. It was created by DJs and producers in the Chicago club scene in the early 1980s. House music was originally designed for nightclubs, but it has since evolved and been appropriated by many different subcultures.

Drum and Bass

Drum and bass (also written as “drum ‘n’ bass” or “drum & bass”; abbreviated as “D&B”, “DnB” or “D’n’B”) is a genre of electronic music characterised by fast breakbeats (typically between 160–180 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, overlaid with sampled sources. It grew out of the jungle/rave scene in Britain during the early 1990s as artists deliberately slowed down existing jungle tracks to half time giving birth to what was later labelled double-time, giving rise to both the darkcore and techstep styles that dominated until the mid-late 1990s. Drum and bass incorporates a number of subgenres including breakcore, darkstep, hardstep, jump up, minimal drum and bass, neurofunk, techstep and many more.

Other genres

In addition to the five main genres, there are many other sub-genres and micro-genres that make up the fabric of electronic music. To name a few: 2-step, 4/4, 8-bit, acid, ambient, Balearic beat, breakbeat, Chicago house, conscious dance music, crunk, darkstep, Detroit techno, digital hardcore, dubstep, future bass… the list goes on!

Notable Performances

Headliners for the 2019 festival included Richie Hawtin, Carl Cox, and Nina Kraviz. Richie Hawtin is a Canadian DJ and producer who is known for his work in the techno genre. Carl Cox is a British DJ and producer who is also known for his work in the techno genre. Nina Kraviz is a Russian DJ and producer who is known for her work in the techno and house genres.

Richie Hawtin

Richie Hawtin is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ who is notable for his work in the techno and minimal genres. He is a three-time recipient of the DJ Award for Best Techno DJ and was awarded the Ministry of Sound’s Global DJ Award in 2005. In 1998, he founded the record label Plus 8 Records, which has releases from artists including Hawtin himself, Speedy J, Marco Bailey, and Chris Liebing. He has also released music under the alias Plastikman and collaborated with fellow musicians such as Underworld, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, and Brian Eno.

Hawtin is a prolific live performer, often using Ableton Live to remix his own tracks on the fly as well as to create new tracks using samples from his previous recordings. He has performed at several major music festivals including Coachella, Glastonbury, Ultra Music Festival, and Movement Electronic Music Festival. In 2011, he launched ENTER., a party series that ran for five years at Space Ibiza. In 2017, he launched PlastikmanLand at Detroit’s Hart Plaza during Movement Electronic Music Festival.

Carl Cox

Carl Cox is a British techno DJ, producer and radio host. In the 1980s and 1990s, Cox was a three-time DJ Mag Top 100 winner and has headlined some of the world’s biggest clubs including Amnesia, fabric and Space. He has hosted his own radio show ” Worldwide” on Sirius XM since 2015. He currently resides in Australia.

Cox has performed at numerous festivals including Avalon, Awakenings, Boomtown Fair, Burning Man, Creamfields, EDC Las Vegas, EDC Mexico, Lollapalooza Berlin, Love Parade, nature One, Tomorrowland and Ultra Music Festival.

Loco Dice

Loco Dice is a Tunisian-German electronic music producer and DJ. He is known for his work as a producer and DJ in house and techno.

Loco Dice was born in Tunis, Tunisia. His parents are of German descent. He grew up in Bonn, Germany. In the early 1990s, he began organizing techno parties in Bonn. He then started working as apromoter for the club Hard Wax in Berlin. In 1999, he co-founded the record label Desolat with Martin Buttrich.

Loco Dice’s first solo album, Seven Days and One Week, was released in 2006 on Cocoon Recordings. His second album, Seeing Through Darkness, was released in 2009 on Ovum Recordings. In 2010, he released his third album, Exit Chamber – The Album on his own label Desolat.

Loco Dice has performed at many notable festivals, including Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Electric Daisy Carnival, Movement Electronic Music Festival, Awakenings Festival, Time Warp DE, Sonar Barcelona andbooked for prestigious clubs such as Fabric (London), Berghain (Berlin), Output (New York City), Zoo Project Ibiza (Ibiza) , Circo Loco DC-10 (Ibiza) , Amnesia (Ibiza).

Conclusion

The 2019 Movement Electronic Music Festival was a great success! We would like to thank all of the artists who performed, the volunteers who helped run the event, and the attendees who came out and enjoyed the music. We hope to see you all again next year!