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trust me, tomorrowland in belgium is pretty trashy too. save your money and go to an Ultra, if that's your thing. or something like Movement at detroit.

Don't know if it's the Midwesterner in me that makes me think that it's only 8 hrs/550 miles to make the drive.

DesertFox- wrote:

Don't know if it's the Midwesterner in me that makes me think that it's only 8 hrs/550 miles to make the drive.

I hadn't actually mapped it out, but you're right, it's apparently only an 8 hour trip from me.  I used to do 8 hour rides regularly two or three times a year to Buffalo or Myrtle Beach so maybe that's worth the drive if I can get somebody to alternate with.

uziq wrote:

at those huge EDM festivals, or the big european hardstyle or trance events, it's mostly the same agencies rostering the same big-name acts anyway. not worth travelling half-way around the world to hear doof doof doof and look at bright lights if there's the same thing happening on your doorstep.

It makes sense, I think maybe I've just romanticized the idea of being on a continent that is entirely separate from the one that contains all of my problems, while also enjoying a festival dedicated to my favorite genres of music, and of all places, it would be in Europe where trance was born and is fully appreciated.  As far as I can tell, Trance has never really gotten widespread popularity in the US outside of the LGBT scene.  I always try to show people some of my favorite and they're mostly like "What is this gay techno shit?".  Dubstep unfortunately found much more popularity here over many other types of EDM music.  This country truly has garbage taste in music overall.

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yeah the problem with those statements is they're just so confused and a mess of total ignorance. which, yes, does reflect america's own relationship with electronic music. honestly, you'd need someone like KJ who was 'there' and had some experience of the rave era in the 90s/00s to really explain to you where it all went wrong.

techno is detroit music, it's one of america's biggest contributions to music in the last century. a successor to jazz, soul, r&b in many ways. house, too, which was yes more explicitly tied up in gay/LGBT scenes, drag, latino clubs, etc. in places like new york as well as chicago/detroit. but it's literally america's own home-grown music.

dubstep came from south london, and the version that eventually crossed the atlantic and blew up is a very, very strange mutant. it sounds nothing like the british original, which again was informed by lots of music before it, and had swing, syncopation, depth. UK dubstep came from a very specific 'scene' and an ecology of clubs where huge, immaculate sound was a high priority - itself a legacy of the west indian soundsystem cultures. the american version of 'dubstep' was some big-scale festival excrescence full of horrendous laptop-generated sawtooth sine waves. BWORGHHH BWUH BWUH BWUH. it was like the inverse of 'real' dubstep, stuff made for mobile-phone speakers, all tinny mid-range aggression (with helpings of tinnitus).

for an american in 2020 to say 'what is this gay techno shit? give me dubstep' involves a headache-inducing amount of unpicking.

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I'm going to see Vieux Farka Toure in a few months: https://www.jazzalley.com/www-home/arti … ownum=5177

Son of Ali Farka Toure from Talking Timbuktu and The River fame.

Nobody wanted to go with my so I'm going alone That's what the single seat at the bar is for!

I'm going to see Marc Rebillet tonight in LA. Small venue. Vaccinated or tested within the last 72 hours are the only ones allowed. Will be my first concert since the long long ago times.

Probs gonna microdose mushrooms with the girl I've been seeing too. As far as I know, 13 Peruvian children were slain to get me my drogas. Small price to pay for eternal enlightenment.

I'm going to see Khruangbin tonight. Should be a good one. A tree fell and took out 30 (parked) cars at their show on Wednesday.

Still debating whether or not I'm going to microdose mushrooms again.

I would like to go.

I am sure many people will be in costume.

Roar!

Bonobo live sets are always good times.

Line up looks trash. The Metallica fans on Facebook were like "everything sucks but Metallica". Hard disagree, Metallica is trash. Their music aged like milk.

I kinda wanted to go the DC Cannabis Festival(apparently there's lots of live music there) tomorrow but I'm going into the West Virginia mountains to shoot some guns with my brother and stepdad instead.