Sunday, May 25, 2025, was the second day of Movement 2025. The schedule across six stages ran from noon to midnight, with the festival's deepest Detroit programming concentrated in the afternoon and the international techno headliners in the late slots. The crowd at Hart Plaza ran heavier than Saturday by 6 p.m.
The Movement Stage closed with Jeff Mills. The Detroit producer's set was a 90-minute closer that drew, by visible count, the largest single-stage crowd of the festival's first two days. Mills played without visuals beyond the standard stage lighting. The set leaned heavier on Wave 2 Detroit material than recent Mills international bookings have. The room held through the entire set.
Earlier on the Movement Stage, Adam Beyer played the second-headline slot, with a Beyer and Charlotte de Witte B2B in the middle of the run. Honey Dijon ran the early evening. The afternoon programming ran on the deeper end with Stacey Pullen and Robert Hood in successive slots, the Hood booking placed on the Detroit Stage rather than the upper stage.
The Detroit Stage carried Kevin Saunderson's KMS Records showcase across most of the afternoon. The four-hour curated block rotated Saunderson, Carl Craig (second slot of the weekend), DJ Holographic, and Octave One through a tight rotation. Saunderson's set followed the May 21 release of his anniversary edition of the E-Dancer "Heavenly" record, with Dantiez Saunderson rolling through several tracks. The KMS programming was the second day's most clearly Detroit-anchored block.
The Underground Stage delivered what was, by general consensus among Resident Advisor and Mixmag's contemporaneous reporting, the deepest sets of the festival. DJ Stingray played a 90-minute electro set in the early evening. Sama' Abdulhadi played the late-afternoon slot in front of a room that had filled an hour before her start time. Daria Kolosova closed at midnight. The Underground crowd density on Sunday was, several reporters noted, the highest of any stage at any point across the weekend.
The Stargate Stage ran Three Chairs (Theo Parrish, Moodymann, and Rick Wilhite) in the evening slot. The set was the first time the Three Chairs trio had played Hart Plaza together in years. The room was at capacity 30 minutes before the set started and held through the duration.
The Waterfront Stage, presented by JARS, ran Hi-Tech, Seth Troxler, and Jamie xx through the afternoon and evening. Jamie xx's slot drew an international crowd that filled the riverfront approach.
The Pyramid Stage closed with John Summit at midnight, the festival's largest bass-leaning crossover crowd of the day.
The 25th anniversary programming carried Sunday. The lineup design, in plainer terms, put the strongest Detroit-anchored programming in the day-two slots and let the closing day handle the international finale.
The afterparty circuit absorbed the room from midnight on. Father Dukes, Three Chairs at Lincoln Factory, and the Tangent Gallery overnight were already in motion.
