Los Angeles techno promoter Robtronik, a.k.a. Robert Pointer, plans to capitalize on the booming buzz for the genre in the city by organizing a festival he's calling Convention. It's set to happen Sept. 18-20 at locales throughout L.A. Juan Atkins, Paco Osuna, Misstress Barbara, Joel Mull, Stacey Pullen and others have signed up as talkent. The event will take cues from Sonar, Movement and Mutek, according to a statement.
Organizers of this year's Movement festival in Detroit say the three-day happening netted 83,322 customers. "Movement 2009 was an overwhelming success on so many levels," states festival producer Jason Huvaere. " ... We had great weather the entire weekend, which definitely contributed to the record breaking turnout."
Second generation Detroit techno titan Carl Craig returns the the Movement festival he helped create in that city in 2000, organizers announced today. Craig comes back as creative director for Movement 2010. He was the fest's co-founder and artistic director until 2001 when promoters dismissed him (and he filed a subsequent lawsuit).
The Detroit Free Press, anticipating this weekend's Movement 2009 festival, runs a piece on Afrika Bambaataa's groundbreaking "Planet Rock," calling the Kraftwerk-sampling tune " game-changing work that stands as the cornerstone of both hip-hop and electronic music ... "
Berlin-based techno artist Steve Bug is back stateside for a tour to promote his forthcoming album, Collaratory. The dates:
Promoters of next month's Movement 2009 festival in Detroit tell Crain's Detroit Business that ticket sales have almost doubled compared to last year's run up to the party. In '08, the party ended up with about 80,000 people over three days, they say.
Movement 2009, formerly known as Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, today made a few announcements, including the formalization of a deal between its promoter, Paxahau, and its Italian host, Movement Torino, to continue Movement-branded events in that city. The two parties will co-host the closing soiree for Movement May 25 at Plan B in Detroit.
Movement 2009 has revealed its full and likely final lineup for the March 23-25 celebration of Detroit techno and contemporary electronic music culture: