Movement started as the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2000. Twenty-six years and a name change later.
The entry point is Carl Craig. Craig plays Saturday at 9:35 p.m. on the Star Gate stage, back-to-back with Chicago's Cajmere, who records under the alias Green Velvet. Warner describes it as a promising mix of techno and Chicago house, and frames Craig as the reason Movement exists in its current form. He returns Monday at 8:25 p.m. on the Movement Main Stage as his alias 69 (said six-nine). For newer Detroit sounds, Rebecca Goldberg is a great set to catch at 5 p.m. Saturday on the Detroit Stage.
The Saturday schedule includes the following: Matthew Dear's Audion project at 4 p.m. on the Movement Stage. Colette back-to-back with DJ Heather, who grew up in Chicago, at 4:30 p.m. on the Pyramid Stage. Italy's Voices From the Lake at 5 p.m. on Movement Stage. Borderland at 6:30 p.m., also on Movement Stage: a collaboration between Detroit's Juan Atkins and Berlin's Mark Ernestus, who is half of Basic Channel. Warner calls it almost jazzy. Running in parallel: Terrence Dixon at 5 p.m. on the Underground Stage and Stacey Hotwaxx Hale at 6:30 p.m. on the Star Gate. You can't be at both.
For Monday's closing stretch, Ann Arbor's Tadd Mullinix performs as X-Altera at 8 p.m. on the Waterfront Stage, leading into Dopplereffekt at 9:20 p.m. on the same stage. Warner marks it as the late anchor of the weekend.
For those looking outside the core Detroit techno lineage, Montreal's Tiga at 5 p.m is highly recommended. Monday on the Star Gate for something upbeat, and Detroit producer Meftah at 3 p.m. on the Detroit Stage for a slower entry. Detroit poet Jessica Care Moore has a Movement Stage slot at 8:20 p.m. Baltimore's Life On Planets fills out the mid-afternoon run.
The practical checklist of items to bring include comfy shoes, ear plugs for the cavernous Underground Stage, layers for weather that can run from hail to full sun in a single afternoon, and an empty water bottle for the fill stations.
Movement runs Saturday through Monday at Hart Plaza, downtown Detroit.
