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I'd be shocked if Bonnaroo doesn't crossover with SAMF on Big Gigantic.
yea that's one i was hoping for, just not sure if they'd be in a tent then having to travel that far with a stage set up??? although they're way to big for a tent
I doubt it. Unless Bassnectar was really booked and canceled and they're just trying to find someone fast they could bring him back. I would be cool with it but don't think it'll happen.
Damn, I actually like when acts like Bassnectar and Skrillex play because it thins out the other late night crowds and I don't have to listen to it. I'm worried I'll have legendary LN conflicts this year.
When has Bonnaroo had a good EDM year? That's a serious question, they've all seemed equally meh to me. One or two good acts, 4-5 shit acts.
I thought last year was solid. I know Pretty Lights is everywhere, I've seen him 12 times, but that Bonnaroo performance was far and away my favorite and in my opinion the best EDM show Bonnaroo has ever had. Throw in Paper Diamond, Wolfgang, Django Django, AraabMuzik, Four Tet, Conspirator, A-Trak, and Holy Ghost and I'd call last year diverse and definitely more than solid.
When has Bonnaroo had a good EDM year? That's a serious question, they've all seemed equally meh to me. One or two good acts, 4-5 shit acts.
I thought last year was solid. I know Pretty Lights is everywhere, I've seen him 12 times, but that Bonnaroo performance was far and away my favorite and in my opinion the best EDM show Bonnaroo has ever had. Throw in Paper Diamond, Wolfgang, Django Django, AraabMuzik, Four Tet, Conspirator, A-Trak, and Holy Ghost and I'd call last year diverse and definitely more than solid.
I've never "gotten" Pretty Lights, but I guess he's better than the average big get. Araab got stabbed and cancelled, Four Tet was a good get but played a crappy set. A-Trak and Holy Ghost are great.
When has Bonnaroo had a good EDM year? That's a serious question, they've all seemed equally meh to me. One or two good acts, 4-5 shit acts.
I think if any year was to qualify it would be 2010. Deadmau5 and Bassnectar were there right before they got big. Dan Deacon and LCD Soundsystem both qualify as dance music, if not electronic. Plus there was the Lunar Stage where I wish I could have seen Hercules and Love Affair or The Crystal Method. Also had a bunch of stuff of varying quality like Kaskade, Afrojack, Dieselboy, etc.
But yeah, Bonnaroo doesn't seem to know what they want to do with EDM. Sometimes they have great artists, sometimes they have Girl Talk three times in five years.
Post by Dale Cooper on Feb 4, 2014 14:05:45 GMT -5
Araabmusik was still there last year. His set was only like 40 minutes long but it was pretty decent. Well, the music was good but he had literally zero crowd interaction beyond a wave.
Araabmusik was still there last year. His set was only like 40 minutes long but it was pretty decent. Well, the music was good but he had literally zero crowd interaction beyond a wave.
Post by ColorsAndShapes on Feb 4, 2014 14:20:06 GMT -5
Ok, maybe I was too down. I just keep thinking about Avicci and how mad his music makes me (and the money he makes). I am anti laser pointers but I wouldn't mind throwing a green dot into Avicii's eye. Just for a second.
Here is the storyboard of the worst music video of all time (IMO);
Show somewhat unattractive people living a simple life with 2 attractive girls walking through town in hip clothes.
"The others, they don't like us" "yeah I know (they are not supermodels)".
Ride a horse into the city and party down all night long while leaving the 9 year old at home. Ride horse home in the morning.
"Get up, pack your things" (I took some chemicals with some other attractive people and found PLUR)
"Where are we going?" "Somewhere we belong".... (yeah? 9 year olds belong at a rave?) Note: Horrible acting and timing.
They don't take the horse this time cause they sold it for drug money and a ticket.
Continue walking to the rave city where Avicii is playing for a second night in a row.
Older girl is now at the rave probably on chemicals (to make the music somewhat tolerable) lacking the 9 year old she brought. But its all good, she's PLURing. Others will babysit. Thats the "U"nity part.
Pan out to show you the ugly sad girl lacking taste in shitty music but could with an eyebrow waxing, and a nose job... and some new clothes.
Show empty bed. Are they coming back? Are they just at a never ending Avicii concert land (aka 9th layer of Hell)? Did they move to the city? Following Avicii tour? Were they murdered at the rave?
Ok, maybe I was too down. I just keep thinking about Avicci and how mad his music makes me (and the money he makes). I am anti laser pointers but I wouldn't mind throwing a green dot into Avicii's eye. Just for a second.
Here is the storyboard of the worst music video of all time (IMO);
Show somewhat unattractive people living a simple life with 2 attractive girls walking through town in hip clothes.
"The others, they don't like us" "yeah I know (they are not supermodels)".
Ride a horse into the city and party down all night long while leaving the 9 year old at home. Ride horse home in the morning.
"Get up, pack your things" (I took some chemicals with some other attractive people and found PLUR)
"Where are we going?" "Somewhere we belong".... (yeah? 9 year olds belong at a rave?) Note: Horrible acting and timing.
They don't take the horse this time cause they sold it for drug money and a ticket.
Continue walking to the rave city where Avicii is playing for a second night in a row.
Older girl is now at the rave probably on chemicals (to make the music somewhat tolerable) lacking the 9 year old she brought. But its all good, she's PLURing. Others will babysit. Thats the "U"nity part.
Pan out to show you the ugly sad girl lacking taste in shitty music but could with an eyebrow waxing, and a nose job... and some new clothes.
Show empty bed. Are they coming back? Are they just at a never ending Avicii concert land (aka 9th layer of Hell)? Did they move to the city? Following Avicii tour? Were they murdered at the rave?
Welcome aboard. I laughed hysterically the first time I saw this video. It's such self-important shit.
Throw in . . . Django Django . . . and Holy Ghost and I'd call last year diverse and definitely more than solid.
What.
Depends on if you count Synthpop as falling within the overall EDM genre, obviously you don't haha. But I think that's subjective and you can really make an argument either way. If you look at Ultra I would call that an exclusively EDM festival but they still book acts like MGMT, Empire of the Sun, Miike Snow, ect. And obviously CHVRCHES comes up in this thread pretty frequently. It just depends on how you think of music.
Post by ColorsAndShapes on Feb 4, 2014 14:38:17 GMT -5
As far as people without instruments go. Pretty lights > All. Now that he has them he, it's unreal, there is nothing that comes close to him IMO in the EDM arena. I am not worried about roo's LN execution. There is always something I want to check out and can get down to.
Ok, maybe I was too down. I just keep thinking about Avicci and how mad his music makes me (and the money he makes). I am anti laser pointers but I wouldn't mind throwing a green dot into Avicii's eye. Just for a second.
Here is the storyboard of the worst music video of all time (IMO);
Show somewhat unattractive people living a simple life with 2 attractive girls walking through town in hip clothes.
"The others, they don't like us" "yeah I know (they are not supermodels)".
Ride a horse into the city and party down all night long while leaving the 9 year old at home. Ride horse home in the morning.
"Get up, pack your things" (I took some chemicals with some other attractive people and found PLUR)
"Where are we going?" "Somewhere we belong".... (yeah? 9 year olds belong at a rave?) Note: Horrible acting and timing.
They don't take the horse this time cause they sold it for drug money and a ticket.
Continue walking to the rave city where Avicii is playing for a second night in a row.
Older girl is now at the rave probably on chemicals (to make the music somewhat tolerable) lacking the 9 year old she brought. But its all good, she's PLURing. Others will babysit. Thats the "U"nity part.
Pan out to show you the ugly sad girl lacking taste in shitty music but could with an eyebrow waxing, and a nose job... and some new clothes.
Show empty bed. Are they coming back? Are they just at a never ending Avicii concert land (aka 9th layer of Hell)? Did they move to the city? Following Avicii tour? Were they murdered at the rave?
Welcome aboard. I laughed hysterically the first time I saw this video. It's such self-important shit.
Dude, it's the worst. I am anti laser pointers but wouldn't mind throwing one in Aviciis eye.
2011's Electronic lineup was stacked. If you go back and look at the huge names now, there is no way they would be able to pull all those names together again.
As far as people without instruments go. Pretty lights > All. Now that he has them he, it's unreal, there is nothing that comes close to him IMO in the EDM arena.
This is beyond hilarious. I actually don't think Pretty Lights is the worst, I think he's just overexposed, but there are dozens and dozens of acts making better electronic music. Unless if you mean "cheese EDM" when you refere to the "EDM arena," in which case, sure, whatever.
God knows you always respect my taste in music. The EDM genre is fucking anything with produced sounds and a beat you can dance to now. I don't think its even fair to start throwing deep house funk whatever (Disclosure, ), electronic rock (ratatat, etc), Synth pop (SBTRKT, EPOTS) into the same category as Avicii. As for EDM Area, Harder upbeat EDM, Cheese EDM, dubbystep, whatever, I know what you mean and I am pretty against most of it. I had my phase of EDM "cheese" madness a few years back and they have all died on my playlist except PL who is getting stronger IMO.
I mean, Shpongle and Ratatat are good gets and Bassnectar and Pretty Lights have remained popular. But, 2011 was pretty light on EDM, much less original stuff.
2011's Electronic lineup was stacked. If you go back and look at the huge names now, there is no way they would be able to pull all those names together again.
As far as people without instruments go. Pretty lights > All. Now that he has them he, it's unreal, there is nothing that comes close to him IMO in the EDM arena.
This is beyond hilarious. I actually don't think Pretty Lights is the worst, I think he's just overexposed, but there are dozens and dozens of acts making better electronic music. Unless if you mean "cheese EDM" when you refere to the "EDM arena," in which case, sure, whatever.
I'd agree with you that he's definitely overexposed right now and not even in the top 5 artists of electronic music (I'd put him in my top 10 though). This is all subjective but I wouldn't call him by any means "cheese EDM." The guy rented out a space in Brooklyn for 2 years working with musicians of every genre to craft his last album. He went on tour with a full band just to do something different. The other day he wrote on Facebook that he's composing a track right now using freaking cellos, (it's up to the listener if it sucks, but no one can say he's not pushing the envelope). In my opinion their is a big difference between:
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2011's Electronic lineup was stacked. If you go back and look at the huge names now, there is no way they would be able to pull all those names together again.
How was 2011 stacked?
I guess it depends what you would classify EDM but Nectar, PL, STS9, Shpongle, Girl Talk, Beats Antique. All very popular now, and more expensive. I agree 2010 may have been more stacked with Nectar, Deadmau5, Kaskade. That's when they were a lot cheaper to book. Hoping for the best this year.
Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Feb 4, 2014 15:33:49 GMT -5
I feel like people like Pretty Lights cause of the process rather than the results. He may have "crafted" that album with 20 artisan musicians, but it's still boring.
