Sorry, I haven’t been updating. I’m expanding the scope of this blog beyond libraries. I am a big fan of House and Techno Music and I am writing about it. Last weekend I was at Movement 2010 , Detroit’s annual electronic music festival. This post will begin a series of posts regarding my experiences and impressions from the event. I will start with Friday night and chronicle each day in order. Let’s begin.
I touched down on Detroit on Friday. After getting a few things together and having dinner, I went to the This is Home party featuring Omar S and Reference. When we got there we weren’t feeling the main room. We went into the side room and Big Strick was bringing it down with some nice techy Deep House. I never heard of Big Strick before that night, he is one of Omar S’s boys, but I am looking forward to hearing more from him (I love discovering someone new to me). He really had that room in a trance. Unfortunately, the DJ that followed provided a textbook example of how to clear a room. I actually don’t remember the name of the DJ who followed but it was interesting to watch the eventual mass exodus from that room.
I hung around the main room to listen to Reference for a while but around two, the man we came for, Omar S. got on the decks. Omar proceeded to play a set of 90’s styled NYC House. He put down the vocal and organ tracks like nobody’s business. I occasionally went into the side room and saw maybe two people at most in there. It was Omar’s show and he had everyone’s attention. He was superb overall but eventually we got tired and we left before his set ended. It was onward to our rooms to get some rest before the festival.
Continued in Movement 2010 – Day 1
June 6, 2010 at 4:24 pm |
I unfortunately missed Big Strick. You should definitely check out his 2 most recent releases on FXHE, the last one one was a double pack. great stuff. Yes, Omar S killed it!