SPILL FESTIVAL REVIEW: MOVEMENT MUSIC FESTIVAL 2025 @ HART PLAZA, DETROIT – RIMARKABLE

MOVEMENT MUSIC FESTIVAL 2025 @ HART PLAZA, DETROIT

RIMARKABLE

MAY 25, 2025

Defying effortless categorization, Detroit native Rimarkable is a DJ, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and broadcaster. A child of funk, gospel, jazz, and soul, she fuses these roots into her distinctive house and techno sets. Raised in a Pentecostal church where her mother was a pianist and music minister, she also spent formative summers in Chicago during the rise of house music. As a first-generation Afro-Latin Puerto Rican Detroiter, she channels these intersecting cultural lineages into her sound. Since her professional start in 1997, she’s shared stages with Little Louie Vega, François Kevorkian, and Honey Dijon, and in 2021 signed with Defected Music, becoming a presenter for Defected Radio. She is the founder of ‘The Alchemy of the DJ,’ a social justice-rooted educational initiative taught internationally and at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute. A true party instigator and sonic educator, Rimarkable is a force within Detroit’s musical continuum.

Rimarkable’s set was pure vibration—uplifting, rhythmic, and unapologetically soulful. She conjured a dancefloor sermon steeped in deep grooves and Afro-Latin fire, where tracks like Kelly G’s.  “Feels Good (Yeah!) (Little Louie Party Mix)” and “Make A Wish (feat. TrulyBles) [Extended]” by Boogie Vice & N-You-Up became radiant calls to movement. The flow she created wasn’t just seamless, it was ceremonial—layering vocals with live percussion textures, funky bass lines, and house rhythms full of bounce and attitude. Mid-set, her use of “Groove Is In the Heart (Acapella)” gave the crowd a nostalgic jolt while maintaining the forward pulse of her mix. There was a jubilant, communal energy coursing through the crowd—a feeling that built from call-and-response moments to bass-driven climaxes. It was the Movement ethos embodied: Detroit-rooted, globally tuned, and spiritually unrelenting.

(Photography by Paul van der Werf)

About Movement Festival

Founded in 2000 as the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, Movement has grown into one of the world’s most respected celebrations of techno and electronic music, rooted in the city that gave birth to the genre. The 2025 edition marks its 25th anniversary with over 115 acts across six stages, blending Detroit legends with global innovators in a weekend-long tribute to the sound of the underground.

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