Le festival de musique électronique " Movement " : symbole du nouveau patrimoine musical de Detroit

Il y a quelques semaines débutait un événement musical majeur à Detroit : le festival de musique électronique. Chaque année durant le week-end du Memorial Day, cet événement réunit au cœur du quartier d’affaires une centaine de milliers d’amateurs attirés par le fameux son Detroit qui a balayé tous les styles et toutes les époques.  
 
Detroit créé, Detroit invente, Detroit est également moteur dans le dynamisme artistique, musicalement c'est ici que cela se passe.

Cet article du Detroit Free Press retrace en détail la programmation de cette année qui rendait un hommage aux pionniers de la musique électronique qui ont marqué la ville. L'édition 2016 symbolisant ainsi une passerelle entre le passé et l'avenir.  

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Movement 2016 wrapped up its three-day downtown party on Monday, closing out a weekend capped Saturday by a rare Kraftwerk festival performance.

With fans trickling in Monday afternoon after their late party nights around the city, the fest's homestretch built in energy as the day went on, moving from mellow at noon to high energy before midnight. Fluid grooves from Detroit's Stone Owls made for ideal ease-in music on the main stage at mid-afternoon, while the Saunderson Brothers — fast becoming a Movement fixture like their famous dad, Kevin Saunderson — gave a straight-up serving of techno-house nearby.

One notable change marked the evening bill: Richie Hawtin, scheduled to play a marathon set at the Beatport Stage, was a no-show after the Canadian producer failed to receive his U.S. work visa in time. Hawtin and Movement had shared the news on social media earlier in the weekend, but based on fan chatter at the stage, it was clear that word hadn't circulated widely. Hawtin was replaced by a sporting Danny Tenaglia — much as Hawtin himself subbed for Ricardo Villalobos in 2010 when the latter hit visa snags.

Monday finished off with a booming main-stage set from German duo Modeselektor, a delightfully weird and funky performance from Green Velvet with Claude VonStroke, a frantic underground show by Nina Kraviz, and the familiar sounds of Saunderson at the Made in Detroit/Thump Stage.

As fans recoup from a dance-heavy holiday and remove their entry wristbands to reveal the tan lines of a sunny Hart Plaza weekend, here’s a look back at a weekend that brought another round of beats to the Detroit riverfront:

In the long run, Movement 2016 will be remembered for one big headline above all: Kraftwerk. The German group, which played a critical role in the birth of Detroit techno, took over the main stage Saturday night to perform its classic catalog accompanied by an edgy 3D visual spectacle.

For many in Hart Plaza’s bowl, where fans packed in wearing their cardboard 3D glasses, it was a goosebump-inducing moment with historical import, and the high-tech production appeared to go off without a hitch. There was a smattering of fan gripes: sound bled in from nearby stages, and the 3D effects were less intense for fans along the sides. But there was no getting around the satisfaction of spending an evening with one of the most important — and elusive — acts in Movement history.

Kraftwerk’s opening-night placement could have proved anticlimactic for the three-day festival. But energy heated back up Sunday night, as Dubfire whipped up his own sonic-visual sizzle in the debut Detroit performance of his “Hybrid – Live” set, following solid showings from Adam Beyer and Loco Dice that lured crowds to the main stage. They were part of an eclectic Sunday that featured Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA on the Red Bull Music Academy Stage, a warm late-night performance by Detroit’s Eddie Fowlkes at the Made in Detroit/Thump Stage, and reliable banging action at the Underground and Beatport stages.

Another big takeaway from Movement 2016: The event seemed to recapture some of its past boutique, organic vibe. (...).That’s not to say there weren’t pockets of hard-core partying and colorful, eccentric outfits, but all told, the 2016 audience seemed a little older, more restrained and attuned to the festival’s founding spirit: all about the music.

Dan Gilbert’s Opportunity Detroit has been a previous Movement sponsor, but in 2016 lent its name to one of the festival’s six stages, at a cozy, shaded area on Hart Plaza’s east end. (...)

Attendance figures were not available by early Monday evening, but Movement has regularly topped the three-day mark of 100,000 in recent years (...)

As always, it was an international affair, drawing fans from South America and Europe, along with a healthy media presence that included journalists from outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Vice.

For fest producer Paxahau Events, this was a 10th-year Movement anniversary, and by now the Detroit firm has the event down like clockwork: The lengthy box-office lines that dinged last year’s fest were a distant memory, and production was strong across the board — including a reconfigured Underground Stage area that managed to bring top-end audio to the typically clanging concrete cavern. Another key tweak: A stretch of vendor tents was moved about 15 yards off the main concourse, helping loosen one of Hart Plaza’s notorious crowd bottlenecks.

Extrait d'un article du journal Detroit Free Press publié le 30.05.2016

Journaliste : Brian McCollum