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Full lineup out soon. Rolling Stone dropped some pretty sweet names early.
"In addition to return appearances by Skrillex and Bassnectar, this year's event will feature DJ sets from Amon Tobin ISAM, Shpongle Presents The Masquerade, A-Trak, Dada Life, Mimosa, Daedelus, Simian Mobile Disco and Bonobo. Live sets by Crystal Castles, Big Gigantic, Lotus, Holy quack and Brothers Past will round out the bill.
In recent years, Camp Bisco has expanded its scope to include some hip-hop and indie-rock heavy hitters. Those slots will be filled this year by Big Boi, Atmosphere, Break Science with Chali 2na, Portugal. The Man and El Ten Eleven. "
More to come soon but these names already have me pumped, especially because bassnectar, Skrillex and TDB headlining means unlike last year I don't have to see Skrillex, I just can skip all 3 and get great spots for the late nights.
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Yeah it never really makes sense. And there's always some random shitty untz there as well, but the past two years I've went and saw some serious quality acts. Caribou, Holy Fuck, LCD Soundsystem, Four Tet, SBTRKT and even DFA1979. For those worried about the biscuits, it's very easy to skip them. I've done it every year.
Heh. There aren't enough filters on these boards to tell these stories. I'll tell you some stuff I've heard.
And before I get lambasted .. I don't think Bisco fans are bad. You get this stuff at a lot of shows.
Chefchick goes to camp every year says there is no NM, and that the reputation is not very well deserved.
This.
I really can't stand the Disco Biscuits music. But I fucking hate the reputation this festival gets. It's one of the cleanest and friendliest environments I've ever been to as far as music fests go. And there are really two major scenes there, and maybe it's because I don't see any of the shit music, but I don't run into any of the stuff that I hear people saying about the festival. I have never seen Nitrous there once ever. I've seen more people helping others when it comes to setting up tents, sharing camp space, helping people out of bad "experiences," etc.
It's annoying to see something you enjoy get torn apart for shit that isn't even true.
Post by Dave Maynar on Mar 21, 2012 9:01:10 GMT -5
Fair enough. I only know the fest by name, so, like GL, I'm interested in hearing about it from people that have been there. Is camping like Roo or is it more a hotel/commute fest?
It's a camping fest, althoguh this year I guess they're doing things a little differently and having you purchase camping passes similar to Coachella. I'm not really sure I get their booking strategy from what I get though, they try to please all the different electronic music fans. There's always quality acts like FlyLo, SBTRKT, Cut Copy, Ratatat, RJD2 they've had LCD and Special Disco Version several times. However theres always a few shitty acts on the bill. Skrillex, Bassnectar, TDB, stuff like Wiz Khalifa, Nero, Rusko, etc.
But hey, if James Murphy is into it, I'm into it.
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My roommate and her boyfriend go and try to get me to go. They have someone who might do a day pass and if that friend does, then I might do one day with him. If I don't have to drive, why not?? (Like 2 1/2 hours away, I think)
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
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Bleary-Eyed Bonnawook Inforoo's Waffle Czar & Baron Von Hipster
That article is moronic. He focused on everything but the music. If I walked around the Bonnaroo camp grounds for 4 days I would come back with just as many horror stories.
The guy is a quacking moron. I hate Philly Weekly, they try to be this hip fresh voice of the youth in Philadelphia but their writers are as clueless and obnoxious as ever.
The article just reeks of this guy's self-congratulatory attitude. I read this article and all I see is some jackass trying to show everyone how clever he is.
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Just a humble motherf*cker with a big ass dick
nodepression
Bleary-Eyed Bonnawook Inforoo's Waffle Czar & Baron Von Hipster
I settle on a foolproof plan: Put beer in head till fall down. To fall asleep, I need to drink, drank, drunk .
Auchtung Biscuit fans!
Talk to other Philadelphia musicians about the Biscuits, and you’re treated to a vast array of colorful adjectives, none of them too nice. The criticism runs deeper than the usual Philadelphia music scene crabs-in-a-bucket state of affairs, and extends to the media.
Heres where I have to step in and say something. I used to be a journalism student, and every professor I had lived by one motto: "Show, don't tell." In other words, don't form conclusions for your audience, show them the things that made you form that conclusion in the first place and they will either form that same conclusion or not. But you come across as a terrible journalist when you tell your audience how to feel, and give no reasons why. This dude mentions that, supposedly, tons of Philly local musicians hate the Disco Biscuits (as a member of the Philly local music scene I can say thats one hundred percent false. Though a lot of them don't like their music, they like the attention they have put on Philly) and so does the local media? What the fuck is that? You can't just say "Philly musicians and media hate the disco biscuits" and then not give any examples or quotes.
The main concert field is an absolute pile of sloppy shit, but still they dance.
Ah yes... of course. What a terrible planning technique it was to plan the festival on a weekend it rained. They definitely knew it was going to rain that weekend when they set the date a year+ beforehand. Definitely mock the dumb festival goers for making the best out of a shitty situation by still dancing around in the rain.
Brian is visibly distraught. “Our tent was stolen, bro,” he repeats over and over to no one in particular. He’s definitely tripping balls.
It’s about the music, man
With "man" snidely put in italics to mock the hippie accent
and finally, my favorite, the deduction of the audience into three groups that he (cleverly! everything is clever!) gave names and abbreviations.
. First, there’s the Hardcore Drug Rager (HDR) who is there to ingest as many drugs as he can over three days, sometimes “candy flipping,” meaning to take different drugs at the same time—a tab of ecstasy while you’re still on LSD, say. It’s the HDR type, I imagine, that wound up in the back of the two ambulances that rush through the campgrounds over the weekend. Then there’s the Hardcore Electronic Music Geek (HEMG). You can usually spot them pretty easily. They’re not dressed in court jester hats, and aren’t sucking on pacifiers. Instead, they’re wearing a shirt emblazoned with the name of a band you’ve never heard of, and they’re consulting the schedule of performing acts, planning their days, ping-ponging between the three stages to catch every act playing over the weekend and sprouting full-on boners when talking about a remix spun by DJ AC Slater or a new song performed by Lotus.
Lastly, there’s the Average Camper (AC), the guy/gal that dabbles a little in something here or there, catches what acts they can, but doesn’t mind missing a set from someone he or she might be interested in because they wanted to stare at a light for several hours or squish mud between their hands because it “feels sooo good!”
Full lineup out soon. Rolling Stone dropped some pretty sweet names early.
"In addition to return appearances by Skrillex and Bassnectar, this year's event will feature DJ sets from Amon Tobin ISAM, Shpongle Presents The Masquerade, A-Trak, Dada Life, Mimosa, Daedelus, Simian Mobile Disco and Bonobo. Live sets by Crystal Castles, Big Gigantic, Lotus, Holy quack and Brothers Past will round out the bill.
In recent years, Camp Bisco has expanded its scope to include some hip-hop and indie-rock heavy hitters. Those slots will be filled this year by Big Boi, Atmosphere, Break Science with Chali 2na, Portugal. The Man and El Ten Eleven. "
More to come soon but these names already have me pumped, especially because bassnectar, Skrillex and TDB headlining means unlike last year I don't have to see Skrillex, I just can skip all 3 and get great spots for the late nights.
Jesus Christ. Last year was one of the best lineups I have ever seen and its looking great again. Minus Skrillex.
I actually think you'd really like it there. in 2010 I saw Caribou and Holy Fuck share a LN tent. Last year I got to see Holy Ghost and SDV do a 4 hour tag team DJ set. There are some cool art/visual installations and the people there are really nice. The only people there that suck are the die hard condescending "bisco is the only band in the world" assholes, and they don't do anything but see TDB and then go back to their tent and post on PT from their phone about how custie the crowd is this year.
I mean, he's not working for the Times or anything like that, there's a reason why he writes for that paper. Guy sounds like a munch.
True, but my frustration with that paper doesn't just end with that article. I've read some of the most obnoxious articles ever in there. One of my old Journalism professors was an old editor there and always made us read her old articles as well as newer articles and they were all terrible.
Basically he tries to write in that "casual" writing style that magazines like Rolling Stone embrace, except he doesn't have the chops/cred/knowledge that Rolling Stone writers have so he just comes off like a pretentious jackass.
but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal. 
