For the second year in a row, instead of traveling, I stayed home for the 3 day Movement: Detroit Electronic Music Festival, known by many as DEMF. Being its 10th year, it went off huge. Upon arriving, Saturday night the party was already going strong as DJ Kenneth Thomas was making things happen at the Torino Stage. I’d never heard of Kenneth Thomas before, but his style of progressive house/trance was captivating, now making him one of my all time favorites. The night continued on, as we checked out the other stages waiting for it to be 10:30. Around 10 we made our way into the Vitamin Water stage, where DJ Richie Hawtin would be performing as Plastikman. Seemingly the whole crowd was there, as the thousands of people were all snaking their way through the crowd, vying to get a spot at the front. With about a 10 minute delay in between the sets, once he started playing, the place went nuts.
Plastikman opening the set.
Richie Hawtin.
After some bad weather put a halt to some of the shows on Monday, we made our way back for the final sets of the festival, put out by Pretty Lights and Booka Shade. Each of these performances at the RedBull stage had everyone moving the entire time. Pretty Lights took it away by laying some of their tracks live. Both performances took it to the next level with their live drum beats laid in with the mixes. Ultimately the night had to come to an end, but not after Booka Shade put on an unreal encore that was shut down by the police.
Pretty Lights at the RedBull Stage.
All in all, I cannot wait until next year, but I have a pretty solid concert line-up this summer to look forward to, and maybe Benny Benassi next Friday?
Photos are a little thin, as taking them were not something I was thinking about, therefore some of these photographs are from, Jason Clark, and all credit is to be given to him.