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Movement Electronic Music Festival is an annual electronic dance music event held in the birthplace of Techno, Detroit, each Memorial Day weekend since 2006. Previous electronic music festivals held at Hart Plaza on Memorial Day weekend include Detroit Electronic Music Festival (2000–2002), Movement (2003–2004) and Fuse-In (2005).
Detroit techno is a type of techno music that generally includes the first techno productions by Detroit-based artists during the 1980s and early 1990s. Prominent Detroit techno artists include Juan Atkins , Eddie Fowlkes , Derrick May , Jeff Mills , Kevin Saunderson , Blake Baxter , Drexciya , Mike Banks , James Pennington and Robert Hood .
Detroit took its place as center of the techno music universe Saturday as the 23rd edition of the Movement festival kicked off the first of three days at Hart Plaza for an expected 30,000-plus ...
The revered house and techno festival returned to Detroit this past weekend, featuring genre legends and launching countless Shazams.
The Detroit Techno Militia also features ensemble acts with multiple DJs performing on multiple turntables at the same time. In the summer of 2007, the DTM 5x5 was formed. The DTM 5x5 was the first group in the Techno genre to feature five DJs (Darkcube, T.Linder, DJ Seoul, Neil V. and DJ Psycho) performing together on five analog turntables.
The roots of jit date back to Detroit jitterbugs in the 1970s. [5] Chicago's equivalent dance style is Juke, where the focus is on footwork dating back to the late 1980s. [3] [6] Ghettotech was an integral part of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, an annual event.
In 1988, dance music entrepreneur Neil Rushton approached the Belleville Three to license their work for release in the UK. To define the Detroit sound as being distinct from Chicago house, Rushton and the Belleville Three chose the word "techno" for their tracks, a term that Atkins had been using since his Cybotron days ("Techno City" was an early single). [10]
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