Hogpath

The Drive Home

a10@hogpath.com (a10) — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:45:06 +0000

10 years ago Hogpath and Pilot Pictures worked on a documentary film project about the first electronic music festival in Detroit at Hart Plaza. This sliver of history comes to the big screen this Friday the 28th at Music Hall with the help of Planet E and Paxahau. The title of the work is The [...]

Podcast 20 – Jason Huvaere – Part 4

a10@hogpath.com (a10) — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:06:32 +0000

In a few weeks Hart Plaza will be overtaken by an electronic music festival unlike any other in the world. For three days Detroit turns into a vibrant cosmopolitan city with parties all over the place and a lineup packed with talent and diversity. As Huvaere states in this interview, it’s all about the people [...]

Podcast 19 – Jason Huvaere – Part 3

a10@hogpath.com (a10) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:19:07 +0000

In this installment of the Hogpath interview with Jason Huvaere he discusses the changes in electronic music over the years. He elucidates how the changes in technology have affected the delivery and social dynamics of the music in clubs and into headphones. It illustrates how technology has completely opened things like genres and categories, almost [...]

Lady to Grace

a10@hogpath.com (a10) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:17:43 +0000

As time goes on and mainstream radio creeps in there’s a population that’ll always stay in tune to, what I’ve heard Amy Winehouse refer to as, “what the kids are playing“. Over the past few years it seems like the kids, the airwaves, the corporate sponsors, the record label titans are blasting out Lady Gaga. [...]

Podcast 18 – Jason Huvaere – Part 2

a10@hogpath.com (a10) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:53:46 +0000

In my dealings with Jason Huvaere I have been very impressed with his matter-of-factness and professionalism. This series of interviews conveys this. It is this professionalism combined with a sense of responsibility and urgency that brought Paxahau into the Movement Festival. I was very interested how he would respond to a question about the [...]

Podcast 17 – Jason Huvaere – Part 1

a10@hogpath.com (a10) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:21:50 +0000

Paxahau is a pretty ubiquitous name within the world of Detroit electronic music, specifically within the club and party circuit. They are prolific promoters and archivers of the events they have so passionately put on since 1993. Their recent claim to fame is being the organizers behind The Detroit Electronic Music Festival, or Movement as [...]

the season starts

a10@hogpath.com (a10) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:17:33 +0000

the glory of the stadium spectacle before the forest of throats chanting the soccer chant high definition color scrolling companies forcing background attention the dots dribble, the sticks pinball, the game picks up, the human body sweats perfection the season starts on my wide screen high def tele and the myth begins

Zeitgeist

a10@hogpath.com (a10) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:38:38 +0000

If you know, you know. If you don’t, you need to. Scholars and activists, personally through Detroit City of Hope, have made me aware that what is transpiring right now in the world is more than a recession or something contrived like globalization. It is a transition and an evolution. As a species we are asking [...]

the secret of all directions

a10@hogpath.com (a10) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:54:53 +0000

the secret is whispered in dark as rising as falling as air moving in sleep silence and calm her breath a small steady wind believing me to the secret i screamed at and made known a secret destroyed analyzed dissected becomes broken signs previously revealed {secret summertime window-unit air conditioners alleviating hell; triumphant ferry rides across bodies of water; and bringing a [...]

mba

a10@hogpath.com (a10) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:47:55 +0000