http://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.aspThe Subterraneanshttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.asp?perm=1041The countdown officially begins now for Movement 2010, Detroit's biggest electronic music party held each Memorial Day weekend. Let's see, it's 79 days (if our calculations are correct) until the first beats roll out at downtown's Hart Plaza, where the festival has been held since 2000.Even bigger news: the headliners for the Main Stage, and a partial listing of other performers, were just announced (at 12:01 a.m., as a matter of fact). On Saturday, May 29, Plastikman, Richie Hawtin's wriggly alter ego, goes live for the first time ever at Movement. The last North American Plastikman gig was at Montreal's MUTEK Festival in 2004. Also headlining (and doing it live) are Kevin Saunderson's Inner City on Sunday, May 30; and Model 500, led by techno pioneer Juan Atkins, closing the festival on...Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:08:35 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.asp?perm=951Without spoiling too much of the current thrill-a-minute Subterraneans column, which puts to rest a bloodstained year in a fractious imperial democracy and looks ahead to even stranger days ahead, I thought I'd jot down some essential tunes to take with you to the island of your choosing, when you need to get away from it all. Here is the best of what I've returned to again and again in 2009, shared in some random kind of lyrical disorder. Jams that made my mind and body turn and twist and shout. Crossing genre borders, including comps, singles and re-mastered and reissued stoner-approved classics.Hyph Mngo (Hotflush) - Joy Orbison. Ecstatic funky legit house-dubstep blender that gets better and better before your virgin ears. A young talent (Pete O'Grady, 22) to watch. Good pairings to se...Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:01:19 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.asp?perm=907In the mid-1990s, a band of Berlin outsiders, centered around the record store Hard Wax and studio Dubplates & Mastering, began reducing sonic pressure to pure grayscale essence. The labels Basic Channel, Chain Reaction, Main Street, Burial Mix and Rhythm & Sound tossed Detroit techno, Chicago house and roots dub beats in a compression chamber and squeezed out something entirely other. Two of the key people in the scene, René Löwe and Peter Kuschnereit, returned to Detroit to perform live (as Scion) and spin individual DJ sets. Tasty textures guaranteed. Support from Detroit's Patrick Russell and Drew Pompa of Blank Artists, your hosts for the evening. Friday, Nov. 13. Doors at 10 p.m. at Bohemian National Home, 3009 Tillman St., Detroit; $10....Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:13:33 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.asp?perm=825Ann Arbor-based Ghostly International has just released an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Called Ghostly Discovery, the application works as a mood-reading jukebox containing Ghostly's and sister label's Spectral Sound's catalogs, allowing users to create space-age playlists for what they want to listen to based on their emo(tional) state and digital (or) organic preference. After setting your own parameters, you get the option of reading artist bios and purchasing MP3s. Ghostly Discovery is free at the iTunes Store. Download it now, we say. Get it and find Dykehouse's 'Chain Smoking.' You'll want to hug it, guaranteed. Ghostly Discovery was developed in a partnership with Royal Oak design firm o2 Creative Solutions, which previously worked with Ghostly to create projections fo...Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:03:46 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.asp?perm=788The numbers keep going up for Paxahau and its three days of electronic love on the Detroit riverfront.In a press statement released this week, the Ferndale-based promotions group said that 83,322 people visited Hart Plaza during the three-day Memorial Day Weekend for Movement, the annual electronic music festival that featured nearly 100 performances on four stages. "Movement 2009 was an overwhelming success on so many levels," said festival producer Jason Huvaere. "People loved the lineup of performances we were able to put together this year. Our sponsors and vendors really stepped up this year despite the tough economy. The recycling program surpassed last year's totals for collected items. And we had great weather the entire weekend, which definitely contributed to the record brea...Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:36:31 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.asp?perm=768I wish I knew her real name. I don't want to call her Grandma Techno.Surreal speakers in the sky.Flying Lotus tearing it up. Cybergoth kids raving by the Noguchi Fountain.Mr. Nice Guy playing Alice Cooper songs on Roland Micro Cubes. ...Tue, 26 May 2009 20:36:21 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.asp?perm=766 Clark Warner Kero Flying Lotus Lee Curtiss Carl Craig ...Tue, 26 May 2009 13:35:05 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.asp?perm=765 John R. Michael Geiger @ Family Funktion Brian Gillespie @ Family Funktion Brendan Gillen @ No Way Back...Tue, 26 May 2009 13:32:01 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.asp?perm=762I dont know if it's a combo of lack of sleep along with the relentless crush of constant 4/4 beats amplified at ungodly sound levels, but my house guests are freaking out on themselves. One has lost her ID. The other thinks I hate her. All I want to do now that I have no more gigs scheduled is to relax, enjoy some beats and soak up what's left of this year's festival. will I be able to do that? Just went to the will call line for the I'm on a Boat Event. DENIED. My name's not down; I'm not goin' in. So that means, Night Moves and YES, the Old Miami. Here I come....Mon, 25 May 2009 00:35:17 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/subterraneans.asp?perm=761...Sun, 24 May 2009 16:18:56 EST