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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Your guide to Movement festival 2025 in Detroit: Artists, bag policy, transportation, more
Detroit's Movement music festival is set to fill Hart Plaza in downtown this Memorial Day weekend, bringing thousands of music fans together in the birthplace of Techno to celebrate electronic music. What started as an impromptu swarm of late-night parties across the city in 2000, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival grew into what it is now 25 years later. This year's festival, headlined by Belgian DJ Charlotte de Witte, will bring 115 performers to Detroit's Hart Plaza. Six stages will feature hundreds of performers, including Carl Craig and Moodymann in a dual back-to-back set, actor and DJ Zack Fox, and rapper ASAP Ferg, among many others. Here's what to know about the longstanding festival and how to navigate downtown Detroit: Belgian DJ Charlotte de Witte will return to Hart Plaza for her second headlining stint at Detroit's Movement festival, according to the Detroit Free Press. De Witte — who in 2023 became the first female headliner in the event's history — is among more than 115 acts set to play the latest Memorial Day weekend edition of the long-running electronic music fest. Hart beats: An oral history of the first Detroit Electronic Music Festival Movement Festival takes place May 24-26. Festival hours are: 2 p.m. to midnight Saturday, May 24 2 p.m. to midnight Sunday, May 25 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. Monday, May 26 Movement is at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit this year, at 1 Hart Plaza. Tickets for the Movement festival are offered as three- and one-day passes online. Some passes are sold out, check online for availability. Children under 12 and under are free and do not need a ticket. The following items are allowed at Movement: Small bags, single-compartment backpacks, plush backpacks, purses (maximum 12-by-12 inches) Earplugs Fanny packs Gum (must be sealed upon entry) E-cigs/vapes (no E-liquid or E-juice of any kind will be allowed) Baby strollers Binoculars Blankets, sheets, towels Cameras (no detachable lenses) – must be without equipment attachments such as camera stands, selfie sticks, tripods, and monopods Empty CamelBak-type hydration packs and water bottles, and plastic or aluminum water bottles Rain ponchos / umbrella (hand-held ONLY and no bigger than 42 in. when open) Flags/banners or handmade signs (no corporate/company-branded materials, no hard flagpoles) Hula hoops Personal misting fan with bottle no larger than 1.5L (must be empty upon entering the event). Sunscreen lotion The following items are prohibited: Aerosol containers, including sunscreen and personal beauty products Any and all professional audio recording equipment Shoulder-mounted video cameras Cameras with detachable lenses, camera stands, monopods, tripods, attachment sticks (selfie sticks) or other commercial equipment Drones or any other remote flying device Laser pointers Coolers of any kind (exceptions may be made for medical use) Framed backpacks Glass and metal containers of any kind, except for aluminum water bottles Illegal and illicit substances of any kind Outside food or beverage (including alcohol) Large purses, bags or backpacks (larger than 12-by-12 inches) Skateboards, scooters, bicycles, wagons, carts or any personal motorized vehicles (with the exception of disability-related items) Pets (except documented service animals) Professional radios or walkie-talkies Unauthorized/unlicensed vendors are not allowed No solicitation and/or promotional materials including handbills, flyers, stickers, beach balls, giveaways, samples, etc. Weapons or explosives of any kind Fireworks Bicycles inside festival grounds Carts or wagons of any kind The event will go on rain or shine, the website says. Tickets are not refundable. Detroit has multiple public transport options to get around downtown. The city has a streetcar, bike share, and bus system to get you where you need to go. The QLINE, which runs along Woodward Avenue from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday, stops at Harper Avenue, 116 Lothrop St., 6540 Cass Ave., John R & Piquette, and 6230 John R St. From the North: I-75 Southbound to I-375. Stay on I-375 and it will turn into Jefferson Avenue, Hart Plaza will be on your left. From the East: I-94 Westbound to I-75 South, to I-375. Stay on I-375 and it will turn into Jefferson Avenue, Hart Plaza will be on your left. From Canada: Via the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, turn right onto Jefferson Avenue, then take the first turnaround – Hart Plaza will be on your left. Movement has special hotel reservations and deals for concert goers. The fill list of hotels including the Westin Book Cadillac Detroit and MGM Grand Detroit, among others can be found here. ADMN AK Anfisa Letyago Annicka Armanni Reign Ashton Swinton Augustus Williams Avalon Emerson BeatLoaf Beige Ben UFO Blackmoonchild The Blessed Madonna Boys Noize Brian Kage Carl Cox (Live) Carl Craig b2b Moodymann ft. Mike Banks Chaos in the CBD Charlotte de Witte Chase & Status Chris Liebing Chuck Daniels Claude VonStroke Cobblestone Jazz Craig Gonzalez Deepchord (Live) Dennis Ferrer Disc Jockey George DJ Cent DJ Gigola DJ Godfather DJ Holographic DJ I.V. DJ Minx DJ Nobu DJ Seinfeld DJ Seoul DJ Sphinx DJ Tennis b2b Chloé Caillet Donavan Glover Dubfire Ela Minus Ember LaFíamma Erika Father Dukes FERG FJAAK Fullbodydurag Gay Marvine Goldie b2b Photek HAAi Hamdi Helena Hauff Henry Brooks Hiroko Yamamura HiTech horsegiirL Huey Mnemonic Jamie xx JEM JMT John Summit Jon Dixon (Live) Joris Voorn Joseph Capriati Junior Sanchez Keith Worthy Kevin Reynolds (Live) Kevin Saunderson b2b The Saunderson Brothers Klangkuenstler Layton Giordani Loco Dice b2b Vintage Culture Loren Marcel Dettmann Mark Broom (Live) Mau P MCR-T Mike 'Agent X' Clark Mike Schommer (Live) Mike Servito Mister Joshooa MK Nina Kraviz Norm Talley Octave One (Live) Patrick Topping Peter Croce PROSPA QURL RAEDY LEX Ricardo Villalobos Rimarkable Riva Starr Salar Ansari Salute Sama' Abdulhadi Sammy Virji Sara Landry Sarena Tyler Seth Troxler Shawescape Renegade Shawn Rudiman (Live) Shigeto Live Ensemble Shimza SILLYGIRLCARMEN Skepta Más Tiempo Sonny Fodera Soul Clap Stacey Hotwaxx Hale Stacey Pullen Theresa Hill TSHA Waajeed b2b Ladymonix Walker & Royce Whodat Zack Fox Jalen Williams is a trending reporter at the Detroit Free Press. Contact him at jawilliams1@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Movement festival 2025 in Detroit: Your complete guide
Channel 4
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Channel 4
Carl Craig on the staying power of techno four decades on
Now he might not be a household name, but the Detroit producer, DJ, and record label creator Carl Craig is a key figure in electronic music. A new documentary about his 35-year career called 'Desire' chronicles the life of the influential DJ from growing up in Detroit to earning fame and global recognition as a leading figure in the city's techno scene. A warning this report contains flashing images
The Guardian
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Desire: The Carl Craig Story review – serious notes on a techno legend
T his film about Detroit's techno-scene éminence grise Carl Craig is as sober, goatee-stroking and serious as the kind of liner notes that squeezed into a tiny font to fit thousands of words into an album gatefold. That's a compliment; an air of scholarly sobriety suits the subject, a man just a quarter of a generation younger than Detroit DJ legends such as Derrick May or Kevin Saunderson who helped to create the distinctive electronic sound that Craig would expand and experiment with. Don't worry if you hardly know anything about techno, or Craig himself, because director Jean-Cosme Delaloye skilfully delineates who he is and what's significant about him via long snatches of Craig's music and insightful interviews with his friends, family and peers. That last group includes a goodly wodge of Brits, such as DJ Gilles Peterson, musician Roni Size and writer Gamall Awad, who fill in just how Craig was influenced by acts like Throbbing Gristle and Gary Numan, and in turn how influential he was on the European techno scene. Meanwhile, many of Craig's other contemporaries and collaborators expound on his debt to jazz (the interview with Sun Ra-associate Francisco Mora Catlett is particularly delightful) and other forms of music. It's a common complaint that music documentaries – unless they are in the classical realm – are seldom sufficiently musicological, but this one gets much more down and dirty than most with talk of acoustics, key changes and the influence of industrial rhythms. It turns out Craig's early sound was inspired by his work in a copy shop where he spent all day listening to the sorting mechanisms clacking away – who knew? If anything, Delaloye errs somewhat in the opposite direction: Craig remains something of an enigma by the end, a dapper but often monochromatic figure given to elaborate headwear but circumspect and cautious in his conversation. A little more perspective on the techno scene, especially in its current form where it seems increasingly dependent on an ageing demographic, would have been welcome too, but I guess no documentary can be all things to all viewers. Desire: The Carl Craig Story is in UK and Irish cinemas from 8 May.
