Seismic Dance Event Shows More Than A Market For House And Techno In Texas
RealMusic Events' three-day electronic music festival, Seismic Dance Event, is home to a microdosing of local producers that can only live next door to co-organizer Concourse Project in Far East Austin.
As international dance venues go, the club looks like the brightest red concrete cave Austin has seen in a decade. Located close to residential areas, but not comparable to a place filled with apartment dwellers in the center of the city, Seismic descends on nearby residents with the bass and distinctly intrusive sounds of more than 50 DJs. / Welcome from Friday to last Sunday. To the ears of this journalist, who passed through the festival gates every day with 5,000 other ravers, the sound level was often close to deafening.
"It's just that the ears are tired," another member of Sesmic explained unconvincingly. We also hosted the Sunday festival, which ends at 11:00 p.m.
As for thousands of participants, yes, 5,000 per day, knowingly gave the festival a macrodose this weekend of the fifth edition. Who were these creeps? The Texas market of house and techno hedonism and more than game to try new soft drinks and other non-addictive substances said to be intended to create a sublingual dopamine rush like chalk candy. , purchased from a sales kiosk. The effects were later described as mild, not unlike eating a warm slice of pizza on an empty stomach.
These ravers were mostly baby-faced, favoring black clothing; The vibrant aesthetic permeates the crowd wearing Techno and House X Techno t-shirts. The musical references took a backseat to the festival's main music, which could more easily be presented as Trance X Techno.
RealMusic has cleverly catered to its audience by skewing towards a younger audience, while other festivals might almost exclusively promote '50s headliners. So the festival did an official seismic reshuffle to prove that the new dancers had set up a small stage with soft lighting and balls of live nitrogen fog, as one observer asked: Is it mixed every day? Dozens of dancers showed up in T-shirts declaring their allegiance to Chicago collective teams or Austin groups, cheering each other on with their feet and matrix moves in sync with the beats and beats of English DJ duo CamelPhat. One by one, the dancers waited patiently for their turn, pushing each other across the stage in blue and pink bottom-lit shoes.
After CamelPhat on Sunday night, the crowd was young enough to hope for a smooth post-festival return to real life. Instead of 46-year-old German producer/Innervisions label boss Dixon's Tsunami closing set, many chose Tsunami, the happy home of British duo Gorgon City, a decade younger on Frequency's smaller stage, backstage great. . Tsunami adjustment. "When I was a kid in college, I loved Gorgon City," said one attendee, recalling that Dixon was the top DJ in a 2013-2014 ResidentAdvisor poll.
It cannot be said that it was just a festival of children in the crowd or on the stage. On day one, German headliner Aimee (49) played a brilliant set to replace Australian DJ Cassian (34). For the first time since 2002, Fatboy Slim (59) returned to Austin Saturday night, closing out Volcano's indoor stage. Eschewing stereotypical beats for a long time, Norman Cook played tunes from his 'Praise You' to Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now', 'Wildchild's Renegade Master' and 'Yes Yes'. Heads will be rolling in less than five minutes. A group of seasoned runners who limped together.
All in attendance were filled with dark house, techno and progressive music, although many bright spots cut through the heavy emotional gloom. Bronx-born DJ/producer duo The Martinez Brothers tore up the dance floor with their marionette control and heavy Latin song selection. This xx's Jamie X played a nice mix of genres and sounds like heavy bass, woofers and bells, while LP Jabi danced and danced with joy during a house piano performance.
And yet, the end of the world came through the festival, a stream of prison music that turned to melodic techno. Expect the famous Belgian techno queen Charlotte de Witte and her friend Enrico Sangiuliano on the Vulcan stage on Friday.
In addition to the variety of acts, RealMusic's efforts to create a concrete and dirty surface with brilliant sound and light, live painting, large projections, rich stage shadows and the bright neon lights of the VIP booths attracted attention. A number of tents sold items from incredible local designers, even casual cold weather clothing. Despite long lines to get in to brave the chilly wind, daytime crowds consistently exceeded 500 on both the indoor and outdoor stages.
After all, the cold is not a dopamine inhibitor.
