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Gallery Music Portrait of A Movement :: Detroit 2010

June 4, 2010 - 1:59 pm

The spirit of a movement lies in the hearts, and in this case the costumes, of its people.  We say goodbye to this year’s Movement Electronic Music Festival with a look at the crazy characters who made it special.

Detroit Movement 2010

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Music A Conversation with Detroit’s Finest :: Guilty Simpson, Phat Kat, Slum Villages’ Elzhi and Will Sessions’ Sam Beaubien

June 4, 2010 - 1:42 pm

Throughout the weekend, the Red Bull Music Academy brought a variety of polarizing acts into Movement 2010’s growing spotlight. On Sunday evening, as the heat subsided and the Detroit River sat calm and picturesque to the south of the stage, local emcees Guilty Simpson and Phat Kat took to the stage with 8-piece funk group Will Sessions (think Detroit’s Dap Kings) to rock the mic and rock the crowd. Running through a catalog of music — from Guilty Simpson’s recently released full-length OJ Simpson (produced by Madlib) to Phat Kat’s legendary hip-hop album Carte Blanche (including a guest cameo on “Cold Steel” by Slum Villages’ Elzhi) along a selection of classic cuts from legendary producer J Dilla — the two emcees set out to translate their rhymes from written lyric to live, fluid poetry while Will Sessions brought recorded sounds live to the stage. It didn’t take long for those unfamiliar in the crowd to wave their hands on command nor did it take long for Guilty Simpson, Phat Kat, Elzhi and Will Sessions’ Sam Beaubien to dish on the experience of performing together on one stage and the state of Detroit hip-hop while relaxing post-show in the Red Bull Lounge.

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Gallery Music Mr. Scruff :: You Can’t Force A Dance Party

June 4, 2010 - 11:01 am

As Mr. Scruff frantically packs up his gear backstage (as frantically as one can pack their gear with a Budweiser in one hand), my mind wanders around the universe for questions to ask when my time to shine finally arrives.

“Why is a guy who professionally brews his own tea and adores ale drinking a Budweiser?” I wonder. “Is Budweiser available overseas? Is Budweiser considered a delicacy for dudes from the UK?”

“His beard doesn’t seem the least bit unruly,” I observe. “In fact, it’s barely there. Where is the hair on his body that helped give him the stage name of Mr. Scruff? Do I really want to know?”

“Did this dude really manage to fit ‘I Say A Little Prayer’ by Aretha Franklin into his set?” I asked aloud to myself (my brain was overheating from all the introspective questioning).

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Music Brian Gillespie, Martyn and Francesco Tristano :: Wunderkind Unite at Movement 2010

June 4, 2010 - 10:06 am

For the past twenty years, Brian Gillespie has sat behind the decks serving up an educated selection of deep, melodic techno, funk and obscure jazz alongside his signature ghetto-tech blend to the Detroit scene. As part of the deejay duo Starski & Clutch (Gillespie as Starski, DJ and producer Todd Osborn as Clutch), has expanded his brand to a fresh audience after an eclectic set on the Red Bull Music Academy stage last Sunday afternoon. But as a representative for the Red Bull Music Academy in Detroit, many don’t realize that the same determination Gillespie puts into searching for records, he also piles into “helping give young, local talent the resources to [experience] the same exposure in a year that would normally take five, 10, 15 years.” Beginning in Berlin in 1998, The Red Bull Music Academy is built to cater to and foster budding talent. While burgeoning musicians, deejays, singers and producers attend, waves of established and often legendary artists come to visit and educate — think ?uestlove, Madlib, Melvin van Peebles, Chuck D, Carl Craig, Caribou and many more. Held at a mixture of exotic locations around the globe, the Red Bull Music Academy is an opportunity for young talent to get lost within their craft, to hone their skills live and begin building a name through one of the most accomplished music programs to date. But the reach doesn’t end there.

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Music Tokimonsta: Jack-Of-All-Genres

June 2, 2010 - 11:56 am

TOKiMONSTA at Movement 2010

It’s not easy to describe the sounds of Tokimonsta. An initial impression could you leave in a world as “melodic and sentimental” as the artist herself is cute (see above picture). And even though the 24-year-old Tokimonsta’s catalog is somewhat brief, that initial impression could leave you locked into the wrong idea. Within seconds, this Los Angeles-based, self-proclaimed “jack-of-all-genres” can pull a rough, rugged and hip-hop heavy dose of remixed beats out of her bag and no, she won’t hesitate to use ‘em. “I love listening to varied genres,” says Tokimonsta, “so I wanted something with guitars. I wanted something with soul. I wanted lots of hip-hop in it mixed with that electronic, sonic value. As you create, you realize that the years and years of listening to music expel themselves into whatever music your making.” Kicking things off on Monday afternoon, this is the sort of eclectic thrill that Tokimonsta brought to yet another unique weekend performance on the Red Bull Music Academy stage. ChinaShop caught up with the 2010 Red Bull Music Academy attendee to grab up all the details on how this young deejay came to hone her craft and gain some notoriety with some help from Flying Lotus, the adversity she faced early on in the LA hip-hop community and the broad musical tastes that help keep the audience always guessing.  We had a chance to catch up with Tokimonsta at this year’s Movement Festival and this is what she had to say:

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Music Tyvek: A Smack On The Ass and A Punch In The Face

June 1, 2010 - 2:35 pm

Tyvek at Movment 2010

The culture of Detroit does not rest solely on the shoulders of the Movement festival. Like any major American city, Detroit hosts its annual beacons of pride and popularity — the lauded Detroit International Jazz Festival, downtown’s chilly Winter Blast, the prestigious North American International Auto Show. But often, the shadow cast by these behemoth weekend attractions hides a bustling culture that breeds year-round. Last Thursday evening, as the stages were being erected and the carnival food carts were still jockeying for position before the start of Movement 2010 in Hart Plaza, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) was offering a small sampling of such sophistication.

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Featured Music The Crystal Method: A Cinematic Explosion of Sound and Light

June 1, 2010 - 2:26 pm

Crystal Method Movement 2010

Most people wouldn’t throw a Crystal Method CD into their car stereo and describe the duo as “musical entrepreneurs ahead of their time.” But the oddball business description would be more than fitting. Before electronic music was granted the same avenues of exposure as your run-of-the-mill Top 40 pop hits, Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan of the Crystal Method were exploring alternative routes of rocking the masses to great success. “We can’t help it that we’re sexy! We can’t help it that everyone wants us!” laughs Kirkland, the vodka and Red Bull rushing to his head backstage at the intimate Vain Ultra Lounge in downtown Detroit. “But we did wrestle with the concept of [commercializing our music] early on. We were like, ‘Fuck you! Fuck money! We’re hardcore!’ … We were young, dumb and passionate.”

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Gallery Music Excision: Death or Dub-Step

May 31, 2010 - 3:03 pm

Five years ago, Excision couldn’t destroy the soundsystem in your buddy’s Buick if he tried. Five years ago, the monstrous yet catchy womp-womp of Excision’s dub-step DNA was nothing more than ambitious strands left fossilized, yet to be discovered. In fact, if it wasn’t for the sparse dub-step rumble of British duo Vex’d , Excision would be drooling over a desk, trapped in a cubicle, chasing a paycheck that would help pay for the cost of dry cleaning his business casual wardrobe. Vex’d would release Degenerate in 2005, an 18-track LP that many music critics and critical bloggers claim to be one of the first “official” dub-step albums to be released. British writer Mary Anne Hobbs went as far to call the album the “single most accomplished and important record in album form of the genre.” To Excision (born Jeff Abel), the transformative Degenerate was all that lofty praise and more — it would forever change his life that very same year.

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Featured Gallery Music A-Trak: Mild-Mannered Turntable Maniac

May 31, 2010 - 2:43 pm

In the middle of the afternoon in the Red Bull Lounge at Movement 2010, A-Trak quietly weaves his way through a wave of photographers clamoring for a photo. He smiles, turns his head on command, doesn’t give much fuss if a particular shot takes longer than expected. His handler is just as tame, glancing up every now and then from his Blackberry back-and-forth to make sure everything is running on schedule (or at least running in the right direction). At the age of 28, this is already a well-rehearsed routine for A-Trak. For the past 12 years, A-Trak (born Alain Macklovitch) has flown in, enjoyed the array of catering, accommodated the press, smiled for the photographers, grabbed his paycheck and flown out. The only (and most important) part of this routine that refuses to follow a set path is when the articulate, calm yet expressive A-Trak hits the stage, combining the most appealing parts of house and hip-hop with technically savvy takes on turntablism (read: wild card, bitches!).

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Daily Dots Daily Dots: Gorillaz vs. Russell Brand, Plastikman, Insane Clown Posse, Moby Is A Bloodsucker

March 10, 2010 - 5:45 pm

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Today’s bloggin best…

- Gorillaz like Katy Perry, but hate Russell Brand. Prefix

- Plastikman, Model 500 and Inner City all to headline Movement Festival. URB

- Someone let Insane Clown Posse onto Nightline…oh, to make fun of them. Videogum

- 13th Witness directed the new Deftones video. Hypebeast

- Kavinsky has a new track to rave to. Fools Gold

- Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins and Moby all appear in Canadian vampire flick. The Playlist

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