I love it! Great work...

Nicely shot!

Awesome!

Great!

this is great, just great

I'm so Happy Resident Advisor has decided to create these 'real scene' episodes. AWESOME.

Very good work. Congratulations.

Awesome second scene, really good perspective in the selection of vids and scene. nice one.
The next :D, Berlin . I had to say, sorry ;P

RA, you guys are totally winning with these short docs. Keep'em coming!

dope video. there a tracklisting for this??

Really nice video! Nicely produced!!

Nicee!! =) and sad! :/

Absolutely wonderful. Keep them coming.

nice! the D!!!!!

wonderful documentary which echos a strong message to music makers and the importance of culture to a city and the regeneration it can aid.

it makes me think of the dancing the the street series with the interview with derrick may about the renegades of that time, it left a lot for questions of where to now and what will come, and its exciting to see spotlights on such a young generation making music and continuing the lineage

fantastic, thankyou!

Thx ¡¡

I wanna be 11 an produce with Mr. Huckaby. Nice!

Hi, what camera did you use ?

awesome

Powerful documentary! Filmed in a really beautiful way. Something very special in Detroit.

Nice truth!

Love the pictures, the story, the music! Touching! Well done!

Super !!!

great one

great job guys it s super interesting and the shots are really beautiful. keep it coming we want more. :)

Detroit techno

Dopetastic detroit does it yet again! creative class rising higher and higher!

brilliant!

RJ Watkins/Detroit is all over Staff Picks this week: vimeo.com/26986543

ha! I loved this and I happen to appear in the DEMF footage.

AMAZING. but your link above doesn't work. residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1382


pleasedontstare.com/2011/08/11/video-real-scenes-detroit-amazing-documentary-electronic-music/

As a proud Metro Detroiter, I find that this video does the city justice.

I have been to Detroit but I have viewed the video. I am more likely to visit. Thus, I am saddened though how the auto industrial abandoned this GREAT CITY! What a shame. Life moves forward.

Did enjoy the fact that the elders,teachers,parents are passing their fruitful wisdom to the next generation. By this action, I am impressed and respectful to this cause. I say SALUTE YOU AND DETROIT!!!!!

very atmospheric video, if i may say so. lovely shooting angles and colours. made me a bit sad

Great job :)

Very nice, I loved it ...

Does anyone know the original version of the song "Streets Of Detroit" the lyrics is awesome, it sounds very old, like Julie London.

Awesome video! I will check out these artists, very interesting and fresh sound!

Great. Tnx to fredeverything discovered this.

great video! lovely shots & editting..

who's the cutie with the braces, I need his number.

You guys are really doing a great job with these pieces. Definitely an innovative production.

Nice.

nice storytelling here!

Loved this! Especially the guy working with the kids. Nicely shot and positive.

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Love it! Much Love to Detroit!

This video was so worth my time. I learned a lot, thank you!

Inspiring :-)

Most crews come in for a week, try to cover everything, and end up missing the spirit of the place. Your focus was narrow, and you managed to capture the heart and soul here. Really lovely.

beautiful as Detroit!!

So sad to see my hometown in such disrepair. God bless Detroit.

BTW Please make this video available for download. would love to watch this in HD on my TV.

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these are amazing, keep up the good work.

What happened to the video?

That was a beautifully formed little documentary. Thank you so much for producing this, you are doing us all a great service RA.

Awesome !!

Can you please provide the names of the songs played in the doc ? :) They are wonderful !!!! Thank you !

Thank you for the beautiful shout-out to the D.
Mad respect to you and your work!

great work!
whats the name of the first song?

Which micro did you used?

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Thankyou RA that was an extremely well made, interesting and fruitful documentary. ***** track choice.

loved it much!

Very nice video. I'll be sure to check the guys out. I know about Mike Huckaby already and a bit about Kyle Hall. Everyone else is new to me. Well done.

loved it, in particular the camera moves.

Yet another lovely video! Thanks.

This inspiring and informative...

Long live detroit!!!!!

When are you coming to Tokyo? :)

wonderful!

just wow!

So. Damn. Good. The best produced segment from RA, I thought nothing could top Berlin, or Bristol but this one has so much depth, narrative and amazing cinematography. Cheers.

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Given my fascination with Detroit, I wish I could share the almost ubiquitous praise in the comments section. While I have no wish to undermine the impressive production qualities, I find the tone and thematic trajectory of the documentary somewhat superficial and almost condescending - particularly compared to their more comprehensive and favorable highlights for Bristol and Berlin. In Bristol and Berlin, you see a depiction of thriving, energetic locales. With Detroit, you see a city almost wholly defined by a one-sided devotion to its faults. And while there are many to focus on, I think that RA is perhaps too regionally centered to be able to present Detroit with the appropriate amount of context. Which is to say that America is not Europe and they don't seem particularly aware of how to emphasize that.

When Electrifying Mojo is the person almost singularly responsible for popularizing the music, it's weird to focus on some kind of underground club culture as though Detroit music's origins and influences were similar to Germany's. And given that the music is rather ethnically centered/influenced with musicians mostly coming from the black middle class, it's very strange to present Detroit music as some remarkable response to unbearable poverty and desolation. This documentary is undeniably well done, but RA's focus sort of walks the boundary between disrespectful and ignorant. And even worse, they're taking this view toward the origin of the music that essentially created their existence without even proposing anything tangible to contribute to it, the city or its culture. The documentary seems to be more for RA fans than Detroit itself. One could even call it exploitative.

At the risk of saying too much, I elaborate more on my perspective here: click-play-stop.blogspot.com/2011/09/annual-woe-is-detroit-fest.html

Very well put together piece. Two thumbs up.

Great video. Featured on my website:
theswagger.co.uk/2011/09/13/real-scenes-detroi/

Done well, but quite a bit of blight porn. There are as many beautiful areas in the city to document as well. Be sure to balance the images of our city and do not use us to sale your existing notions of us. Detroit love.

Absolutely gorgeous camera movement. This is an incredible piece. The message and the optimism along with the production quality and attention to fine details is something that all involved should be very very proud of. Cheers.

This is a really beautiful docu! LOVE it.

Very special atmosphere i love Detroit, and Techno