DEMF

Movement Comes back for Memorial Day

By Mary Kathryn Burnside

by Wang Howe

on 06/08/2008

In Febuary 2006, Fuse-In producer Kevin Saunderson announced that he would not handle Detroit’s annual electronic music showcase. The festival’s fate again was up in the air. In March, Ferndale, Michigan’s Paxahau, a record label and booking agency, assumed leadership to produce “Movement, Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival.” With support from past festival producers like Derrick May, the event was saved from both financial and reputational demise. Attendance was listed at 45,323 at the three-day, though no longer free, event. It was ample enough that vendors were paid and the city of Detroit along with corporate sponsors like Jeep and Chrysler were more than pleased. “Everything is ready for next year,” says co-founder of Paxahau Jason Clark, who hails from Dayton, Ohio. “We have so much time now to plan an even better festival. Actually, we are very relaxed.”