FilterD’s own Walter Wasacz gives XLR8R his two cents on Movement

The city was abuzz with life according to FilterD Editor Walter Wasacz. He reviews the 2009 Detroit Electronic Music Festival for XLR8R — a music, culture, and technology mag.Excerpt:While Adam Beyer slashed, crashed, and burned it up on the Beatport
Stage, Steve Bug, François K, and Carl Cox upped the ante on the nearby
Vitamin Water Main Stage with even louder, but more varied programs
that included rhythms broken and beautifully beaten, disco basslines,
and cheeky references to pop and jazz. At the same time, Detroit titan
of dub tech-house fusicology, Mike Huckaby, rocked slow and easy on the
Made in Detroit stage, situated in an underground cavern beneath the
riverfront’s Hart Plaza, where all official action was. On top of it
all, a cluster of after-parties kept the weekend rolling virtually
non-stop, for five days (beginning with the Prodigy at Friday’s
official pre-party, though topped by a sold-out Sunday post-midnight
river cruise featuring Luciano, Loco Dice, Carl Craig, and Stacey
Pullen). Choices, so many choices. Wherever you stumbled, it seemed, a
party was ready to bust out underfoot.Read the entire article here.