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Post by Fozzie Bear on Oct 30, 2017 14:10:57 GMT -5
If Florida is good for one thing for music, it's electronic music. Two camping festivals coming up in January in Lakeland and in February near St. Cloud.
First is Distant Dimensions, which is more up my alley:
Pros: likelier colder weather, better lineup for me, closer to me Cons: organization could be great or a mess since it's a first-year fest from a promoter who, AFAIK, have never organized a festival before. They ran a successful techno/house weekly in St. Pete and Tampa before, but who knows.
Dirtybird Campout East, the likelier more successful event:
Pros: Almost guaranteed to be better organized, decent lineup Cons: Lots of acts I don't care about, may be a bit warmer, farther from me.
DB Campout has a pretty uninspiring lineup outside of Pearson Sound and Marshal Jefferson.
I'd see Ardalan, Claptone, Claude, DJ Tennis, George FitzGerald, J. Phlip, Pearson Sound, Soul Clap, Tiga and Wolf+Lamb. Nothing mindblowing, but better than I expected for a Florida music festival in February.
DB Campout has a pretty uninspiring lineup outside of Pearson Sound and Marshal Jefferson.
I'd see Ardalan, Claptone, Claude, DJ Tennis, George FitzGerald, J. Phlip, Pearson Sound, Soul Clap, Tiga and Wolf+Lamb. Nothing mindblowing, but better than I expected for a Florida music festival in February.
I saw Ardalan this summer and it was terrible, Claptone had a real boring set when I saw him at Freaky Deaky (maybe the other Claptone plays better music haha), Claude is just everywhere so it's a boring booking to me. Tiga is someone I do not get the appeal of, I absolutely hated his FYF set haha, it's just kind of corny to me. Fitzgerald and J Phlip and Pearson Sound are solid. It just doesn't have anything special for the most part for my tastes. Agreed on the February florida music festival part though haha.
I'd see Ardalan, Claptone, Claude, DJ Tennis, George FitzGerald, J. Phlip, Pearson Sound, Soul Clap, Tiga and Wolf+Lamb. Nothing mindblowing, but better than I expected for a Florida music festival in February.
I saw Ardalan this summer and it was terrible, Claptone had a real boring set when I saw him at Freaky Deaky (maybe the other Claptone plays better music haha), Claude is just everywhere so it's a boring booking to me. Tiga is someone I do not get the appeal of, I absolutely hated his FYF set haha, it's just kind of corny to me. Fitzgerald and J Phlip and Pearson Sound are solid. It just doesn't have anything special for the most part for my tastes. Agreed on the February florida music festival part though haha.
I enjoyed Claptone a few years ago, but haven't seen him recently. What made Ardalan terrible? It's not a unique festival, something I definitely wouldn't travel cross-country to attend like Coachella, but it seems decent enough for a weekend time-killer in February. Buuuut Distant Dimension in January may be good enough for me.
I saw Ardalan this summer and it was terrible, Claptone had a real boring set when I saw him at Freaky Deaky (maybe the other Claptone plays better music haha), Claude is just everywhere so it's a boring booking to me. Tiga is someone I do not get the appeal of, I absolutely hated his FYF set haha, it's just kind of corny to me. Fitzgerald and J Phlip and Pearson Sound are solid. It just doesn't have anything special for the most part for my tastes. Agreed on the February florida music festival part though haha.
I enjoyed Claptone a few years ago, but haven't seen him recently. What made Ardalan terrible? It's not a unique festival, something I definitely wouldn't travel cross-country to attend like Coachella, but it seems decent enough for a weekend time-killer in February. Buuuut Distant Dimension in January may be good enough for me.
It was just that same exact tech house hi hat after excessive build up every. single. time. It was an all night set too and not a single part was memorable except for when he played Valentine's Groove by KiNK.
I enjoyed Claptone a few years ago, but haven't seen him recently. What made Ardalan terrible? It's not a unique festival, something I definitely wouldn't travel cross-country to attend like Coachella, but it seems decent enough for a weekend time-killer in February. Buuuut Distant Dimension in January may be good enough for me.
It was just that same exact tech house hi hat after excessive build up every. single. time. It was an all night set too and not a single part was memorable except for when he played Valentine's Groove by KiNK.
Eeeeesh those get old fast. Those build-ups can be effective when employed right, but not used over and over again.
It was just that same exact tech house hi hat after excessive build up every. single. time. It was an all night set too and not a single part was memorable except for when he played Valentine's Groove by KiNK.
Eeeeesh those get old fast. Those build-ups can be effective when employed right, but not used over and over again.
Agreed, it's the worst. No progression whatsoever it's just some weird vocal chop about booty, or "jack", or "this is house", with a massive buildup that goes right back into the same drum beat that the song starts with and the same damn bassline that the song starts with.
Anyone ever listen to Yaegi? She has a few decently popular songs out right now, she's a great producer, DJ, vocalist, graphic artist, etc. I'm blown away. New EP out today too.
Post by Fozzie Bear on Nov 3, 2017 10:01:31 GMT -5
This made me think of how many Asian women are getting recognized in the house and techno scene, and it's great. Yaegi, Hito, Maya Jane Coles (part Asian), Peggy Gou, Powder, etc.
X-Tront. Vol 2 by Luke Slater is pretty much a perfect techno album. It being from '93 is the most impressive part cuz its better than 99% of todays techno.
This might be the best techno song I've ever heard, god damn this is beautiful. Check out his album Freek Funk. It's got techno, half-time dnb, jungle, trip hop, ambient. Fucking incredible.
He categorized it as #NEOTRANCE on SoundCloud. What in the fuck is NEO TRANCE?
Right so cringey and pretentious haha. His fans are gonna be like "P0rtorrr created Neotrance" and start calling Move Your Body by Marshall Jefferson a Neotrance track. There is literall zero trance elements its flat out house song with a prog house bridge at the beginning.
He categorized it as #NEOTRANCE on SoundCloud. What in the fuck is NEO TRANCE?
Right so cringey and pretentious haha. His fans are gonna be like "P0rtorrr created Neotrance" and start calling Move Your Body by Marshall Jefferson a Neotrance track. There is literall zero trance elements its flat out house song with a prog house bridge at the beginning.
The build-up takes some cues from trance, but agreed most of the track is house more than anything. Either way I dig it.