No I completely disagree with you Greg. sorta kinda > Detroit, to me, is not a festival.
Uh wha? But we're talking about the festival. No one has said that Greektown, or the afterparties, or showing up at so'n'so's (insert techno namedrop) house is not great. That stuff is all great. Traveling is great. These are the attractions of traveling. There are many great cities in the world full of brilliant artists and great atractions and Detroit is one of them. > Yeah. Let's see you get that kind of experience at > <insert some generic Euro festival here> It won't be the same experience. It could be equally great. I appreciate Detroit very much, it's a great and unique place. But it is besides the point if we're talking about the musical quality of the festival. Obviously it is great to see friends and enjoy the sights, although I am not so sure I enjoy the atmosphere of the festival the best for this, or having to shell out hundreds of dollars in hotels etc to do so. Waxing romantic about how it's the city that counts and it doesn't matter if the festival goes to crap is not really a very reasonable argument IMO. That said, I got the most detailed and helpful description of last year's festival from ex-313er Jamaul Redmond over the weekend. He said it was still amazing, that there was a great performance on one stage or another at all times, and described performances I hadn't even heard about (Shake with 3 Chairs?? 6 hrs of Rhythm & Sound with one of the guys from Wackies?!). He said there was no shortage of great music, and from what he said, I believe it! He also added that all the minimal and inane club music was mostly concentrated in the Beatport tent. That doesn't sound so bad at all if it was that easily avoided. Jamaul played a mindblowingly great set in Charlotte, NC on Saturday night. His stuff is very much in the vein of the best Rob Hood stuff, like the first dozen M-plants, really excellent, and his focus while performing is really impressive...Highly recommend any body who enjoys that original M-plant sound to check him out if you get the chance...He opened for Rob Hood before and gave him a run for his money...
