Michael, you get it.
respect,
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To: "Fred Heutte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: (313) 4 more Movement acts
Fred Heutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/22/2008 03:04:35 PM:
Look, the question of whether there has been one "festival" or
several different "festivals" because there were different
production companies just doesn't matter very much to me.
At the same time there has
obviously been a different approach and style that each production
group has taken on.
What matters to me is that the general trend is the decline in the
relative weight given to Detroit-area DJs and live acts over the
years.
Eh, yep - string these three together and you've got
1. there's been three different fests
2. three different fest production companies
3. a general trend in a decline of Detroit artist presence
You're comparing apples and oranges
You have to consider the festivals from each production company seperately
- not as a whole string of the same event.
It's fair to compare 2002 to 2001 but not 2008 to 2001 because the company
in charge during 2001 had NOTHING to do with 2008's fest (and vise versa)
each new production company is a new and different festival
It just so happened that Pop Culture, Carl Craig, Derrick May, and Kevin
Saunderson had a similar goal in mind
it's Paxahau's Movement that isn't continuing the same trajectory and
never
did from the start of their production
it's unfair to the previously mentioned producers to lump them in with
Paxahau because I don't think they are cut from the same cloth
By all signs given, Paxahau is *not* going to do a festival in the same
vein as the others
they are *not* going to return to a Detroit Electronic Music Festival
style
event like we had during the 2000-2002 span
It does come down to the production company and their mission
Each one has had a goal for the festival that was reflected in the
line-ups
Each production company has given different results
My opinion is if you want a 2000-2002 style festival don't wait around for
Paxahau to deliver it
Three years in a row they've shown that they just aren't interested in
doing it
MEK
