Wet weather dampened Detroit’s Movement festival Monday but didn’t stop it from posting its best-ever attendance figures as a paid event. More than 95,000 people came through the Hart Plaza gates over the weekend, according to organizers, a 15 percent increase in attendance over last year’s fest.

Movement director Jason Huvaere credited the festival’s success to a well-run campaign leading up to the event. As for the bump in attendance, “It shows we’re working in the right direction,” he said.

Read all about it in this article from The Detroit News

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Robotnick first made a splash almost 30 years ago with his single Problemes d’Amour, and Analog Session shows him returning to the styles of that bygone era, with disco, electro and early techno featuring heavily on the album. Working with his longtime friend Lapo, AKA Ludas Pinsky, Robotnick opted for a set-up that consisted almost exclusively of vintage gear, including such sought after gems as the Oberheim Biphonic and a Korg Stage Echo. The duo played played live in the studio for two days straight, and later edited down the recording of their session to the nine tracks included on the album. The entire ordeal was caught on film as well, and the footage will be featured on a DVD accompanying a limited edition version of Analog Session.

Tracklist
01. Concrete Seq 1 (club mix)
02. Fun-Fare (club mix)
03. N5 From Outer Space
04. Promenade Am3 1
05. Sunday Morning
06. In My House
07. It. 122
08. Concrete Seq 1 (video version)
09. Fun-Fare (video version)

This Is Music will release The Analog Session on June 7th, 2010.

“Welcome to the funk lair of Kenton slash demon. I first heard about this new exciting disco duo from none other than Zane Lowe’s assistant earlier this year“, starts this article about our favorite Danes. We’ve known for some time now, that these guys are doing great things and clearly EB agrees. You can read the full interview here

Pol_On (Freerange, Get Physical, Mothership),

http://www.myspace.com/polonmusic

Another excellent Polish export, formed by Kacper Bogacz and Michal Piotrowski. Kacper Bogacz, a graduate of the Academy of Jazz Music in Katowice, Poland and a respected jazz musician, became known to wider audiences through ‘Piroman vs. Pan K’, his live act partnership with Michal Romanowski. The other half of Pol_On, Michal Piotrowski is without a doubt one of the key players in Warsaw’s techno/house club scene. In recent years he’s been involved in events, festival bookings and numerous productions – notably with SLG, amongst others.

The pair began playing parties together in 2007 and quickly discovered a shared musical vision. Trial musical productions soon developed into something more significant. Cooperation became musical partnership and consequently more professional, eventually leading to interest from Channels Records. They released their first single “Ranom” in April 2009, followed by an EP on Outils Du Connaisseur, and releases for Get Physical Music and Mothership, with their friends Catz’n'Dogz.

Exactly a year on they have released their single “I Need” on Freerange Records, as well as material for new label PETS with remixes of Martin Dawson and Adreas Saag; and a second EP on Outils Du Connaisseur, which has been well received by top Dj’s.

As well as being inundated with remix requests, for several well known artists and labels, the duo are seriously thinking about their first album…

Here is a mix for your listening pleasure!

The beginning of this week (19 April 2010) saw the tragic death of the one and only, Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal – aka GURU; the former member and founder of Gangstarr. Whilst reading the the several tributes and stories about his life and watching agog as reports of the ‘letter’ unfolded, I came across this touching remembrance from his brother, a distinguished professor of drama at Stanford University.

You can read it in full here: http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2010/04/23/my_brother_gang_starrs_guru/?page=1

By way of plugging ‘The Next Girl Dj‘, a new Dj competition from Beatport, strictly for the fairer sex, the guys have written a splendid set of interviews on some of the strongest female names on the underground circuit at the moment, including our girl J.Phlip, Anja Schneider and Hannah Holland to name a few! Check it out here

And as a producer, he’s collaborated with some of the following top-notch artists:
Random Factor , Greg Wilson , Faze Action , Chaz Jankel , L.S.B. ( Pete Herbert & Baby G ) , Spirit Catcher , The Electric Press , Bubba & T- Bone , Tim Fuller , and Ignition The Band, to name a few.

Here’s a link to his to his latest interview with Juno Plus, where he talks 80s pop music, unreliable synths and his love of the English countryside: http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2010/03/02/interview-ilija-rudman/

Happy Friday!