{"id":186,"date":"2008-06-13T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-06-13T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T17:26:53","slug":"rave-olympics-demfdetroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/rave-olympics-demfdetroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rave Olympics &#8211; DEMF\/Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the two long weekends at electronic music festivals.  The first was the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/detroitmusicfest\">Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF)<\/a> and the following week I went to Montreal for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mutek.org\/\">Mutek<\/a>.  The line ups at both were excellent and though it was really exhausting I had an amazing time.  I can barely sum up the weekends in words or pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of my favorite performances, moments, and memories from Detroit in no particular order, even though Alex Smoke was my favorite performer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alex Smoke<\/strong> live<\/li>\n<li><strong>DBX<\/strong> -live (even though his secret gig at Bunker was better)<\/li>\n<li>enjoying <strong>Derek Plaslaiko&#8217;s<\/strong> set with all my friends from NYC<\/li>\n<li>meeting <strong>Egyptian Lover<\/strong> in my hotel elevator<br \/>\n(their shirts were so totally insane, I am so mad at myself for not taking their photo)<\/li>\n<li>hearing <strong>Heartthrob<\/strong> play live while laying on the grass outside<\/li>\n<li>feeling like I was at a goth club (age 19) while listening to <strong>Kill Memory Crash<\/strong> play live<\/li>\n<li>being blown away by <strong>Par Grindvik<\/strong> live<\/li>\n<li>melting at the beauty of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.neither-field.com\/\"><strong>Scott Pagano&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> gorgeous visuals during <strong>Speedy J&#8217;s<\/strong> live set<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mathias Kaden<\/strong> live<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Selway<\/strong>&#8216;s 45 surprise minute fill in DJ set<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Accelerate After Party<\/strong> with <strong>Dan Bell, Zip and Sammy Dee<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Hanging out with<strong> Bruno Pronsato<\/strong> making bad jokes<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Dethlab&#8217;s amazing acid warehouse party:<br \/>\n<strong> Too Far Gone&#8230;<\/strong> presented by Dethlab with Adult, Perspects, Dethlab, Cowboy Mark (tagteam DJ set), Motor (DJ set)<br \/>\n<strong> No Way Back<\/strong> presented by Interdimensional Transmissions<br \/>\nDerek Plaslaiko, Mike Servito, BMG of Ectomorph, Patrick Russell, Carlos Souffront<\/li>\n<li>meeting <strong>G.O.D. <\/strong>at the acid party<\/li>\n<li>Finally eating at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/slowsbarbq.com\/\">Slow&#8217;s BBQ<\/a> and not bing disappointed.<\/li>\n<li>And it was a true highlight to finally not stay at a crappy hotel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My friend Andy wrote an excellent article on his experiences at Detroit based on the music and architecture:  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/blog\/detroit_electronic_music_festival\">http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/blog\/detroit_electronic_music_festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Random photos (not a faithful documentation of the weekend) by Seze<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/blog\/detroit_electronic_music_festival\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/images\/music\/demf08\/demf-000.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDetroit patches pants dude.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/images\/music\/demf08\/demf-001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nKate Simko performing an excellent set<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/images\/music\/demf08\/demf-005.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWe may be getting older but we are still having fun!<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/images\/music\/demf08\/demf-002.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMy super stylish buddies Bethany &#038; Doyle of Dethlab hosted the best party<br \/>\nof the weekend &#8220;Too Far Gone&#8230; No Way Back&#8221; at their warehouse studio space.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/images\/music\/demf08\/demf-004.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Phases of the moon wall at Slows BBQ outdoor seating area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the two long weekends at electronic music festivals. The first was the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) and the following week I went to Montreal for Mutek. The line ups at both were excellent and though it was really exhausting I had an amazing time. I can barely sum up the weekends in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,9,2,48,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seze.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}