It’s eleven o’clock on a Saturday night in Detroit — do you know where your average hip hop-soaked, electro-lightning struck music fan is? Probably a cool 1,500 people deep in an eclectic crowd of Detroiters and international globetrotters, nodding their heads and moving their bodies to the intense bass-and-beat, multidimensional punch of the Glitch Mob on the Red Bull Music Academy stage at Movement ’09. From forcefully slapping recognizable, mainstream rap hooks across the face with various effects and hovering them above some of the crunchiest bass lines we’ve ever heard to the trio of electronic wonder boys working the crowd like seasoned rock stars, the Glitch Mob closed the Red Bull Music Academy Stage with not only laid back flare, but with flawless form and function to match. We managed to chase down the West Coast digital maestros — EdIT, Boreta and Ooah (missing in action — “hired gun” Kraddy) fresh after their atomic set; Ooah proudly marching over to the couch with a fifth of Jameson’s in hand and Z-Trip sitting off to the side, listening in. Oh, what a night…
