Three day techno festival in Detroit draws record crowd.
Movement

A soggy crowd of 34,820 toughed out the rain on Saturday to bring Movement its biggest single day since becoming a paid event, according to organizers.
That puts the fest, now in its 12th year, on pace to eclipse the 100,000 attendance figure for the weekend. Last year's festival drew around 95,000 to Hart Plaza for the three day techno festival, which itself marked a 15 percent increase over the year previous.
Organizers credit awareness of the festival, and the fact that it's become ingrained in fans' consciousness that Memorial Day weekend means Movement in Detroit. "The brand continues to grow globally," said James Canning, the fest's spokesperson. "The crowd plans their year around it."
Saturday's highlight came in the form of the pounding set from Skrillex, the Los Angeles dubstep DJ who whipped the crowd into a frenzy and kept them there for the entirety of his hour-long closing set on the Red Bull Music Academy stage. The crowd jammed the area in front of the stage so tightly that Skrillex had to stop his set midway through to ask people to take a step back.
When he continued, the crowd reacted with an insanity unseen since Girl Talk played the same stage in 2008.
"It was awesome," said Skrillex -- real name Sonny Moore -- following his set. He said he was nervous how his music would go over at a festival with its purest roots in techno music, but was more than pleased with how the set turned out. He even stage dove at the end of his performance.
Skrillex was preceded on the Red Bull stage by Goldie, a UK-based drum and bass artist whose work dates back to the early 1990s. Goldie stayed on stage while Skrillex played and nodded along in approval -- a passing of the torch, in a sense, from one generation to the next.
"He's driving the machine now," Goldie said of Skrillex, following his performance. Skrillex even shouted out Goldie from the stage, saying without him he wouldn't be doing what he's doing today. Goldie said he was honored by the mention...