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Movement Detroit Releases Stage Info and Set Times for 2016

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This coming May, Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit is celebrating 10 years of life at the core of the birth city of techno with a line-up that brings together legends of the famed genre, popular up-and-comers in the underground world, current house favorites from across the globe and a small roster of signature eclectic acts.

This year, those making the pilgrimage to Detroit will be witnessing the first ever Kraftwerk 3D performance at Hart Plaza, with Modeselektor and Dubfire’s Hybrid show both set to complete the headlining spots at the festivals’ main stage over the weekend. Paxahau has also decided to change things around a little, adding different sounds to an Underground Stage that is usually chock-block full of hard techno, also placing Richie Hawtin’s PLAYdifferentlyShowcase at the Beatport stage by the Detroit River – with Richie closing out the night with a two-hour set – and inaugurating the first-ever Acid House devoted stage at the festival with the likes of DJ Pierre, Boys Noize and Nina Kraviz all set to perform.

The stage programme and set times are now out, allowing attendees to plan their entire Memorial Day Weekend with as much ease as possible. While there’s bound to be plenty of conflicts with Phase I and Phase II lineups of such size, there is no doubt that as always the entire weekend will be filled with top-notch music and amazing performances.

Check out the release below and make sure you also check out our Detroit City Travel Guide to ready yourself for the trip. The guide is complete with recommendations that cover travel, accommodation, food and other activities to do while in the Motor City.

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Movement To Touch Down In Croatia This Summer

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Movement is expanding to the promised land of Croatia, dubbed by many as the new Ibiza following recent years of festival and party expansion.

Movement Croatia is set to debut this coming July with a large roster of techno and house talent that includes the likes of Sven Väth, Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, Derrick May, Octave One, Steve Rachmad, Robert Hood, Nina Kraviz, Dave Clarke and Margaret Dygas.

The Movement name has been expanding over the years, taking over the Detroit festivities in 2006 and establishing an Italian version in the northern city of Turin just over nine years ago. 2015 saw the Detroit festival touch down in Puerto Rico for a special Caribbean getaway, with the Italian version of the brand visiting Croatia for a smaller club edition last summer that now turns out was the stepping stone for the festival set to launch this July.

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In the last few years, Croatia’s new-found status as a hot spot for electronic music festivities has seen the country benefit from thousands making the pilgrimage over the summer months. Movement Croatia will occur at The Garden Tisno, a 2,500 capacity outdoor venue that has also been home to Sunwave Croatia, Electric Elephant and Love International Festival.

Movement Croatia will offer three stages of indoor and outdoor beachside programming, as well as boat parties, with  a variety of accommodation options that range from air-conditioned apartments to camping and airstream trailers. Individual stages will be hosted by:

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Lola ED vs Half Baked
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Sunday Breakfast Zurich

For more information and tickets visit Movement Croatia’s Official Website, the Official FB Event and the RA Event.

 

Movement Detroit Comes Out Strong With Phase 2 Release

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Movement Detroit released its Phase 1 lineup earlier this year, announcing the festival debut of German techno giant group Kraftwerk who will be landing in Hart Plaza with their famous 3D set-up.

Alongside them, a list of who’s who of today’s dance music scene with focus on house and Detroit techno. Names such as Carl Craig, Chris Liebing, Eddie Fowlkes, Maceo Plex, Stacey Pullen and Tale of Us are all coming back to what is certainly recognized by many as a yearly must-attend underground house and techno event.

Today, Paxahau has unveiled the festival’s Phase 2 roster, adding more talent to an already filled selection of artists:

 

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Richie Hawtin Presents: PROTOTYPES TOUR

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ENTER. and M_nus boss Richie Hawtin just announced a PROTOTYPES TOUR presented by PLAYdifferently, the new project he embarked on to develop and release state-of-the-art DJ equipment.

With the aim of testing the final prototypes of PLAYdifferently’s new mixer, the tour will start on Monday March 14th at Los Angeles’ Sound Nightclub before stops at SXSW in Austin, the smaller Panther Room within Output in New York, a Miami Music Week appearance and a show at Spybar Chicago alongside DJ Tennis before jetting off to Europe. There, he is set to test out the equipment in Paris, Tenax in Florence, Watergate in Berlin, fabric in London and Robert Johnson in Offenbach before a special showcase during Movement weekend in Detroit alongside heavyweights Joseph Capriati, Dubfire and Hito.

The final stop will take place at Awakenings in Amsterdam on Sunday June 26th where he will be accompanied by the likes of Maceo Plex, The Martinez Brothers, Chris Liebing, Hito and Fabio Florido.

Stay up to date with Hawtin on Facebook and Twitter for further information and ticket releases for each show.

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Poll: Movement Detroit or Lightning In a Bottle?

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2016 will mark the 10th year that Paxahau has hosted Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit’s Hart Plaza, having been held under different names between 2000 and 2005. While Movement was the go-to dance music festival for years during Memorial Day Weekend, The Do Lab in California launched Lightning In a Bottle as a public festival in in 2004 and hasn’t looked back since, promoting sustainability, social cohesion, personal health, and creative expression with an equally impressive selection of artists on their yearly roster.

With both festivals taking place on the same weekend in Detroit and Central California respectively, we want to know: where will YOU be this upcoming Memorial Day Weekend?

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Movement Detroit 2016 Lineup Possibly Leaked Ahead of Announcement

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Techno and house fans in North America have been waiting in anticipation for Movement Electronic Music Festival to drop its Phase I line-up, set to come out on Jan 20th.

The Detroit festival is celebrating 10 years of operations this coming Memorial Day Weekend and began teasing its fans with clues on social media hinting at some of the artists we can expect to see in May. They essentially announced the first-ever Movement appearance of German techno group, Kratfwerk, while the subsequent two were more obvious indications that Hart Plaza will play host to the Movement debuts of both Get Real (Claude vonStroke & Green Velvet) and Caribou.

Then, last night, a reportedly leaked image of the festival’s Phase I line-up began to circulate on various social media channels, igniting speculations as to the acts that the festival’s promoters Paxahau will be announcing this coming Wednesday. Whether accurate or not, the leak included the aforementioned three artists, making it believable to the many who saw and shared the picture.

Adding further fuel to the fire today, Drumcode head-honcho Adam Beyer posted the same line-up (which he is featured in) on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Although the Swedish producer removed the image since, this solidified the already effervescent internet chatter from fans convinced that it may truly be the line-up coming out next week.

While we don’t know for sure, it has surely left us waiting for a confirmation. But for that, we might just have to wait until Jan 20th.

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