What a wonderful holiday weekend - best DEMF since 2000. Not only did we have amazing weather, but we had the privilege of hosting Steve & Amy up from Hotlanta, as well as Jamie in from Oregon. I’ve posted some of the photos I took from my cellphone in the gallery, with more from a [...]

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Last weekend was the highly anticipated 4 day holiday weekend. I can’t tell you enough how happy I was to have a few extra days off work… Anyway, a quick rundown of the weekend’s activities:

Wednesday night Steve was in town from HOTlanta before his brother’s wedding, so we managed to get 1 evening of drunkeness [...]

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With the demise of one techno-haunt in town, comes the reopening of another.

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Good times, with good friends. It’s a game of Bocce Ball and another drunken 5 hours of Catch Phrase. Many a good time can be had with Catch Phrase, but they really should put a disclaimer on that game that states “it never ends”. That’s exactly what I was thinking when [...]

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You know the old saying, nothing good happens after 2am? Don’t believe it… We went out Saturday night to THE Detroit afterhours spot, the Fi-nite Gallery in Corktown (a block from old Tiger Stadium) to see Kevin Saunderson play, and he did not disappoint. You know it’s going to be a good show when doors [...]

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When Phil first told us Daft Punk’s limited release movie Electroma was playing in Royal Oak, my first reaction was something like: “OMFG!!!!!!!!11one”. I wanted to badly to like the movie, but in the end we spent $6.50 each and an hour and a half in the theatre, and I was left feeling cheated.
The basic [...]

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Add Bjork to your list of performers you need to see live before you die.
No joke.
Christa, myself, Jane, Jacqui, & Paul went to the Virgin Music Festival on Toronto Island last week, and Bjork made the 2-day concert completely worth the trouble, and it was close to the top of the best live concert/music experiences [...]

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I’ll be honest, the last thing I wanted to do was go out last night and have to get up early this morning and fight the hangover haze. But when did that ever stop us from going out? We stopped by Club Bart in Ferndale last night, and caught an amazing live jazz/funk band, and [...]

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I admit it, it’s my fault. I didn’t make it to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) at all this weekend. I feel like I owe an apology to a lot of people for plans made, and plans broken.
To Jason, Justin, Phil, Jeremy and others: you were right. Now that it’s over, I’m regretful [...]

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[08:34] < @chiqy> matt, i am extremely disappointed in your blog of late.
I know — bad blogger bad blogger!!! As Linda so graciously pointed out it has been a whole week since an update, so let me get you up to speed…

Thanks to Justin for taking Phil, myself and Christa to game 1 of the [...]

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