SURPRISE! I went to BASSNECTAR at the NORVA in Norfolk, VA 4/17/11

Spontaneous? Me? Not usually...but yesterday Kevin & I definitely were. Bassnectar's Spring Tour was announced weeks ago and we had considered going to the Norfolk, VA show but figured it was too far away for a Sunday night when Kevin had class at 8am the next morning. Then after the show sold out we knew we definitely weren't going because tickets on all websites were over $100 each. Then at 3:30pm yesterday in Winston-Salem, NC (a 5 hour drive from Norfolk) Kevin decided to randomly look up tickets for Bassnectar and found two for $35...so DUH we had to go! We literally left Winston the second we got packed and made our way to Norfolk. I AM SO GLAD WE DID!!!

Bassnectar during "Pink Elephants"

We literally made it to the venue 15 minutes before Bassnectar came on. I was extra excited about this Bassnectar show because I knew all of the ambassadors working this specific one! (Bassnectar Ambassador's now have the option to work at any show if they want to/can.. cool right?) Kevin & I somehow got up to the front railing on the left side and any words that I use right now to describe this show will just be an understatement on how good it was. It was just like New Years Eve for me all over again. I was so close, and 100% into the concert the whole time. I never left my spot either! Tears came out when he started playing and this happened to me on New Years Eve too, so I'm not sure if it's because both times his intro included "Here We Go" or if it's just because the intro to any Bassnectar show is AWE-SOME. I seriously can't even describe the feeling but I was so happy last night and I am just so glad Kevin had the idea to go last minute because it was so much fun. I'm actually embarrassingly and extremely sore today. Yeah.. my neck & back. I guess being on the front rail allows one to jam a little harder than normal and well, I feel like I got in a car wreck! Haha! (Hope I'm recovered for Pretty Lights tomorrow!) But anyways...after this amazing concert, I stuck around the front to talk to the ambassadors more, and Lia too of course (Bassnectar's assistant). Lorin was standing on top of the speakers (or whatever those things were?) signing autographs and I was waiting patiently for my chance to get to speak to him and make sure he realized who I was...

...and he did!!! I told him I just wanted to say hello because I was one of his ambassadors and he goes, "You're "KCDAV!!!!!" (hence my twitter username) Haha, I was SO happy he knew who I was! He then proceeded to tell me that he loved the picture I tweeted of Phillip Irwin's shirt when I was at Ultra, and then he asked me if I wanted to come up on stage and be in the AmBASSador picture with him and the ones that worked that night! So of course I did, and the picture that Kevin took for me was unfortunately blurry, so I'm currently waiting for Lia to upload the ones she took that will be on Bassnectar's website. I'll add it on here as soon as she uploads it! And if you're interested, my blurry one and all the other pictures I took last night are on Facebook in my "Basscapades" album. Below are three videos I took, and then a picture of Kevin & me with the ambassadors and Lia Holland.

Kevin & me with Ambassadors & Lia

Can't wait for my next Bassnectar adventure! :-D

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Added 4/23/11 - as promised, here is the picture I got to take with the AmBASSadors and Lorin after the Norfolk, VA show on April 17th

Ambassadors & Lorin, aka Bassnectar

Visit Bassnectar's website to view pictures taken at every show!

Skrillex in Charlotte, NC - Polish Ambassador in Chapel Hill, NC!

These two JUST IN! Skrillex will be playing at Amos Southend venue in Charlotte, NC with Porter Robinson and Zed. The Polish Ambassador will be playing in Chapel Hill, NC and I am unsure about the venue as I believe a fraternity called Chi Psi has paid for him to come for their last day of classes (which is a huge party day for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). I'm so bummed because I will be in Europe on July 9th (I guess I shouldn't be bummed about that!) but I will not be able to attend Skrillex in Charlotte!!! This would happen! But if you are going to be in or around Charlotte on July 9th and want to hear some crazy electronic tunes, then Amos Southend will be the place to be. Check out the facebook event for Skrillex and/or visit Skrillex's website.

You can also visit The Polish Ambassador's website where he lets people know about his new record called Future, Sex, Computers on 1320 Records. You can preview the entire album here!

If you scroll down to my older posts you will see Skrillex & Polish Ambassador videos from concerts that I went to. Hope you enjoy both of my blog posts today!

A "Thank You" from Ultra and mid-April Update

How cool is this picture that Ultra Music Festival created to thank all of it's attendees? It also announces the dates for next years festival, which will be March 23-25th (I personally think it's too early to be thinking about next year) but if I had to say right now if I would go again the answer would be yes, so maybe lots of other people out there feel the same!

Next up this week is that Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) just announced that they will be doing three nights in Colorado this September! This is great news for me since I will be living in Denver way before that! I'm going to need to broaden my blog audience to Denver, Colorado readers so they can be updated with all these new shows coming up. STS9 will be playing at the Ogden Theatre on 9/8, and then two nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on 9/9 and 9/10 - so if you can't go to all three, hopefully you can make it to one!

STS9

Pretty Lights in Raleigh is coming up fast (April 19th to be exact)! Derek and his drummer Adam (who I met in December when Adam played for Conspirator in at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh) will without a doubt be giving us an awesome show. So many more people than usual are coming out for this concert, and I hope the venue makes for a good time because the past two PL concerts I've been to have definitely been so much fun. Derek's music live is even better than listening to it at home on some speakers, so get ready if you have never seen them together!!! Two Fresh and Mindelixir will be opening for Pretty Lights so this makes the night even better! I saw Two Fresh at MoogFest, and saw Mindelixir before The Glitch Mob in Charlotte this past year, so don't think you need to get to the venue late. Both of these artists are awesome and you will want to get there when the show starts! At least that's my plan. :-) If you haven't gotten a ticket you can get one here and you should also check out Pretty Light's website for free downloads of ALL of his music! Looking For Love (But Not So Sure) is my favorite song from his last album that came out in October, check it out.

See ya Tuesday!

ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL - "Have a beer with 150,000 of your friends." March 25-27th, 2011

Sub Focus at ULTRA Music Festival

ULTRA [uhl-truh] –adjective 1. going beyond what is usual or ordinary; excessive; extreme.
Yup, Ultra is the perfect name for this world renowned music festival, as it is and was the ULTIMATE electronic music experience for everyone in attendance. Ultra was not only sold out by 150,000 thousand people, but people from 70 different countries bought tickets to this event. I don't know if that number means anything to you, but compared to the numbers of other festivals this one is as big as it gets!

Tiesto

Unfortunately mine and Kevin's flight was canceled that Friday morning due to the fuel farm explosion in Miami, but an angel working for American Airlines somehow got us on a flight later that day. Because of this, Kevin & I practically missed all of day 1 (meaning we missed Pendulum, STS9, and Benny Benassi, the three we really wanted to see on the first day). We didn't land in Miami until about 10:45 pm, so we rushed to our hotel and then to Bicentennial Park where Ultra was being held. We decided 30 minutes of Tiesto and seeing the festival itself was better than not going at all. Fortunately day 1 was our least favorite day if we had to pick out of the three, but it still was a bummer to miss. Since we found out pretty early that we were going to miss day 1, my ambassador friend Phillip Irwin informed me of an after party called "Future Sound of Breaks" at Mekka nightclub which was right down the street from Ultra. We originally weren't going to try to do any of the after parties since 3 days of Ultra would be plenty, but we decided to go so we could pack some music into our first day in Miami. And it wasn't just random people playing at Mekka either. We wanted to go because Doorly, Dirtyphonics, Excision, and Zed's Dead were all going to be playing! 

Dirtyphonics

DIRTYPHONICS was SOOO good. I was seriously blown away. I looked up more information about them afterwards and a review said "You'll burn 300 calories in one listen!" and it's so true because their music keeps you jumping up and down the entire time. Excision played after Dirtyphonics and he was awesome too, and then Datsik popped out of no where and we thought he was going to play with Excision, but he just chilled on stage with him and talked on the mic a few times! Which was still cool. (Remember to pause my music playlist on the right hand side if you want to play any of my videos!)

Excision & Datsik

Day 2 begins and I run into Phillip immediately as we get out of the cab! Check out his shirt. I tweeted a picture of his shirt at Bassnectar and said "your ambassadors wish you were here!" and I'm assuming after that tweet Lorin recognized that I was one of his ambassadors, and started following me on twitter. That topped off an amazing day at Ultra, ready to hear about it?

We get there and go straight to the Carl Cox stage where Steve Aoki is playing, and it was just so cool to even BE in this area because of all the decorations and lighting that was going on at this stage. Afrojack played here after Steve Aoki, and he was great! "Polkadots" by him has been stuck in my head for days because he played later on during the day at the main stage too (where the music can be heard REALLY far away) and everyone was jumping around dancing to this song. Very memorable sight to see! We also checked out Netsky at the Tower of Ultra, check out this new sick song by him here.

Steve Aoki

Crowd of people in the middle of Bicentennial Park, can hear main stage music here

Then we walked over to the Live stage for Skrillexxxxx. I was so excited about seeing him! Skrillex is a little different than most electronic music producers out there, but that's what I like about him. He was probably the only person in the whole festival wearing long sleeves, but hey that's his style and the kid makes sick music. Skrillex played on Sunday as well, and out of all the shows I saw at Ultra, his two were the only ones were people started a mosh pit. Nothing too extreme though!

Skrillex

Next up was three in a row at one stage...Nero, then Skream & Benga, then Rusko! The only part that sucks about festivals is that you have to save energy for people that play later in the day, which means you can't jam as hard as you actually want to earlier in the day! Nero was awesome, and then Skream & Benga were sick too. (Skream & Benga are their own artist names, but they also have a group called Magnetic Man, and a guy named "Artwork" is a part of that as well). But Rusko was who I was looking forward to the most at Ultra, so being in the exact same spot for all three shows was tiresome, but totally worth it!

Skream & Benga

I apologize that the two videos I've posted on here so far aren't HD, but my HD camera apparently didn't have a large memory card, so I took a lot of videos on my other camera to be safe and made sure I had enough space on my better camera. The rest of my videos below are in HD.

Rusko was awesome and I can't wait to see him again - possibly on April 30th in Washington DC! He will also be at the Orange Peel in Asheville the next day, May 1st, but that is a Sunday so Kevin & I figured a Saturday would be more fun.

Anywho, we saw a lot of artists on day 2, and the rest of the good ones this day included Deadmau5, then Excision and Datsik. Just like Tiesto, the crowd for Deadmau5 was absolutely insane. I don't know exactly how many people were crammed in front of the main stage, but I'm guessing like 30,000. Kevin & I wanted to see Deadmau5 because we never had live before, but when we knew Excision and Datsik were going on in the Tower of Ultra nearby, we decided to leave and check them out. Excision was just as sick as he was the night before, and then Datsik was awesome. I heard that Datsik had one of the best sets at Ultra, but we left early to beat the crowds, which I am now regretting! My FAVORITE song right now is "Wake Up Call" by Datsik, which is also the first song that plays on my blog right now, but in case you are reading this and I have changed it, click the link to hear that song.

Deadmau5

 This picture above of Deadmau5 looks a lot like my Tiesto picture because Kevin & I found this awesome place on a hill to be able to see the concert. This crowd went wayyy far to the left, where the ground was flat, so if you weren't trying to be up really close, this was the place to be.

Paramedic jamming on top of the ambulance during Deadmau5 (:

After such an amazing day 2, we were pumped up for day 3, and got to see the Disco Biscuits as soon as we arrived on Sunday. I really like the Disco Biscuits because I personally know two of the guys, Marc Brownstein and Aron Magner, as they also have a music group called "Conspirator" and I got to meet and hang out with them after their show in Raleigh this past December. There was also an artist painting while Bisco was playing - how cool would that be to have that as your job?

Ready for Day 3 of ULTRA

Aron & Marc from the Disco Biscuits

Artist during the Disco Biscuits

After Bisco we walked around to see all of the stages and the different music artists at each before the rest of our favorites started for the day. Laidback Luke, Dieselboy and 12th Planet were awesome. We then met up with Phillip and his group of friends before Super Mash Bros, which is a group kind of like the music Girl Talk plays.

Super Mash Bros

After Super Mash Bros, we checked out Will.i.am since he was at the main stage, and he was fun to watch because of all the energy from the crowd. When there are thousands among thousands of people all together wanting to hear music, there's a pretty good chance you're going to enjoy the live music whether or not you like the person playing or not. After a little bit of Will.i.am we went back to the Tower of Ultra (we were there a lot as you can tell) to see Skrillex again. Yet again, an awesome show. The picture below is of Skrillex, and then Edit from the Glitch Mob is on the left, setting up for their show next. =)

Edit from The Glitch Mob on left, Skrillex in the middle

The Glitch Mob was sick, of course. They always are to me. I feel like I know these guys! I practically hung out with them after their show almost a year ago in Greensboro, NC - took pictures with them after the show like it was nothin! Then a few months later I saw them in Charlotte where it was a little harder to get access to them, but I made it happen! I got to talk to them all after the show outside the venue. At Bass Center 2, I SHOULD have gotten to talk to them since I was an ambassador! But I actually never saw them back stage? Must have been hanging out in a secret room with Lorin giving him birthday cake. So yeah, seeing them for my fourth time was awesome. Here are my two videos that I took of them below. The first one catches Edit and then Ooah freestyling. I didn't catch Boreta's part in time! 

The Glitch Mob

After The Glitch Mob was the muuuutha f 'nnn Gassslammppp Killaaaaa. Haha okay, sorry for saying his name like that, but if you have ever seen him live, you know why I just did that. Yes, the Gaslamp Killer. Phillip told me about him before Ultra, but told me not to look up any of his songs until I gave him a chance live. His music was not only good, but he is hilarious to watch!!! This dude is seriously nuts. He makes the funniest faces, mixed with the funniest sayings. Phillip informed me that he played better songs a different time before Ultra when he saw him, but Kevin & I still thought he was good. We didn't stay for the whole set though because we wanted to get a good spot for SUB FOCUS!!!

Gaslamp Killer

I was pumped about Sub Focus because I knew Bassnectar had opened for him abroad. Meaning, if the, Lorin, OPENED for someone else, I knew they probably were freaking awesome. And he WAS! Sub Focus was my favorite show of the festival. Every song was so good, and he played a lot of new stuff for us too. I seriously lost it at one point and the sunglasses on my head went flying. I apologize for the crappy quality of my videos, as my camera just can't handle the lighting like it should, but you can still tell how awesome the crowd's energy was for this amazing show. The first video of the crowd jumping up and down gives me chills every time I watch it! (FYI: Sub Focus was in the circular light structure on stage, but there was also a guy on stage commentating the show, saying things like "ya'll ready for some BASS?!") Loved every part of it.

Sub Focus

So I guess that about wraps it up for my Ultra Music Festival blog post! Sorry it was so long, but something of this magnitude couldn't have been summed up in a few words. The month of March has been so crazy for me, and so much fun too! I can't believe Ultra has come and gone, but that only means more fun things to come in the future. You know I'll keep ya posted!

Needless to say, Kevin & I had an unbelievable time at Ultra. Thanks for reading. :-D

Ghostland Observatory & Thievery Corporation @ Red Rocks, August 14th

Ghostland Observatory

This can't be real! Ghostland Observatory at Red Rocks WITH Thievery Corporation!!!!! I will be settled into my new place in Denver, Colorado by this time so this is just awesome news! I've seen Ghostland and Thievery once each and they both are in my top 10 favorite concerts ever. And now they will be joining each other in the best venue in the country. I had to share this with you all!!!

Thievery Corporation

I also have to give notice to Elise Goodrich, who introduced me to Thievery Corporation almost a year ago, and I never listened to her and realized how good they were until I saw them in person. She was SO right! Not only is their music good but they give an amazing show. And speaking of amazing shows, I know I already talked about Ghostland's show in an older blog post, but GLO's concert in Charleston BLEW ME AWAY. It was so much fun and their crazy lights/lazers were totally not expected. Can't wait to see what they both come up with for Red Rocks!

My favorites by GLO:

Silver City

Midnight Voyage

Sad Sad City

My favorites by Thievery Corporation:

Amerimacka

Sound the Alarm

and this one is one of their most popular songs - Lebanese Blonde

Also if you are a Glitch Mob fan in or around NC, they announced their Summer 2011 tour today and they will be coming to The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC on July 17th. I will be out of town until the 16th of that month, so if I'm not too jet lagged I may try to make it! All of their new summer dates are below. Enjoy!

Bassnectar at Red Rocks, & ULTRA in 7 days..... "Get ready cause here we GOOO"

It's official! I'm going to the Bassnectar show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on June 18th. Yes. Bassnectar at one of the most famous venues in the country. Kevin and I are moving to Denver, Colorado at the end of July now, so we are going to head out there the week of June 18th to see Bassnectar and put the final touches on our job and apartment hunting before we actually make the move. I'm so excited this worked out in this way!

For those of you who don't know what Red Rocks is, you can see and read all about it here. It is such an amazing venue that I have wanted to go to for so long now and I am so excited Kevin & I chose that week to visit Denver so we can make it to the show. The Glitch Mob and Pretty Lights have also just recently scheduled shows there, as the date for Glitch Mob is July 2nd and Pretty Lights is August 12th. Pretty Lights played at Red Rocks on my birthday last year, August 7th, and I really wanted to go then but couldn't make it so I can't believe I will most likely be seeing them there a year later when I'm actually living right down the road! I also got invited to be an Ambassador again for the Red Rocks show, but since I'm going all the way out there just with Kevin I'm thinking about just sticking with him the whole night (aren't I a good girlfriend?) :-D but having the advantage over everyone else that I know the Bassnectar crew and will be "slightly VIP" as another ambassador put it. It's definitely a Bassnectar show you wouldn't want to miss if you have the chance to go to it.

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Speaking of me being an Ambassador, I have a little story for you guys. I got the nicest message from someone I didn't know on Facebook today telling me that they were looking up stuff for Ultra Music Festival and stumbled across my blog somewhere on the Internet. Not only did they tell me that they are also going to Ultra and that they were at Basscenter 2, but they were very complementary of my blog (and gave props to me for being a part of the octopus and dragon shenanigans at Basscenter 2). Then tonight at the bar (yes I said bar but I'm actually sober right now) someone told me that a friend of mine always shows them my blog and that they think it is the "coolest thing ever". To those two people today, to other people that have told me this, and to people that think this as well - thank you SO much! You make my day and I can't tell you how much it means to me when someone tells me this. You are why I keep writing!

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Now back to some music talk! In my last blog post I told you guys I was going to the Bahamas and that I probably wouldn't engage in any musical escapades that week. Well whatdya know. I fly into Charlotte, NC and find out my younger sister can get Kevin & I in free at the Rebelution concert in town. Of course we went, and got to hang out on the tour bus too! My younger sister Jaclyn went to Lollapalooza back in August (following in my footsteps;)) and met the guys of Rebelution there, so when they came to NC they hooked her and her friends up with free tickets to the show. It was a great concert, and I really liked this song called "Lazy Afternoon". Another song that I have always really liked of Rebelution's is "Safe and Sound". Marley, the lead bass guitarist is who I should give thanks to for letting us all in free, and this picture below is my sister & me with him on their bus.

Marley Williams from Rebelution

And yes, I cannot believe Ultra is in 7 days. One week from tomorrow (well I guess technically today since it is 3 in the morning!) I will be in Miami, Florida JAMMING OUUUUUUTTTTTT to RUSKO, SUB FOCUS, SKRILLEX, SKREAM, BENGA, THE GLITCH MOB, PENDULUM, DEADMAU5, EXCISION, DATSIK, NERO, THE DISCO BISCUITS, KASKADE, AFROJACK, STEVE AOKI, BOYS NOIZE, STS9, DAVID GUETTA.......should I keep going?!?!?!

Goodnight!!!

Beginning of March Update

Hey blog readers :-) I'm headed to the Bahamas tomorrow for Spring Break so I probably won't be engaging in any musical escapades this week, but I'm getting extremely excited for Ultra in 20 days! I'm also going to Pretty Lights in Raleigh on April 19th, and Starscape Music Festival on June 4th. Starscape has 12 of my favorites there in ONE day so I knew I had to go, wasn't a doubt about it in my mind from the second I saw the lineup. My favorites from this lineup include:
BASSNECTAR - LOTUS - STEVE AOKI - DOORLY - SKRILLEX - EXCISION - DATSIK - FLUX PAVILION - DOCTOR P - ZEDS DEAD - PAPER DIAMOND - TC
Pretty intense people I just listed...but hey what can I say, I'm a bass head and this music LIVE is so much better than when you listen to it on your computer, trust me. Let me give you some of my favorite songs right now from these people.

Raindrops - Basement Jaxx - Doorly remix
Last One Standing - Example - Doctor P remix
Keri Hilson ft. Wiz Khalifa - Turin Me On - Paper Diamond remix
Rude Boy - Rihanna - TC remix
Don Diablo ft. Dragonette - Animale (Datsik remix)
All The Eastern Girls - Chapel Club - Flux Pavilion remix
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Skrillex

I also just recently made another video using iMovie that is a collaboration of my videos that I took from Bassnectar on New Years Eve and Bass Center. I'm kind of bummed about the quality of some of my videos though, as lines show up throughout my videos every now and then when the lights are going nuts. When I bought my camera I was told it had the same quality as the iPhone 4, and the iPhone 4 is definitely better quality as those lines do not show up on it (AND iPhone 4 has better sound!). I'm going to have to do something about this! But for now, here's my video that I made that includes Bassnectar's song "Wildstyle."




Hopefully I'll run into some Junkanoo bands in the Bahamas! Until next time....
JAM OUT TO THIS!

Polish Ambassador/Bass Center 2/Kraddy, Archnemesis, Love & Light all in one week.

Elise & me with The Polish Ambassador

Good gosh! My last blog post was February 15th and I have SO much to talk about that has happened this past week! Maybe I need to blog more? Anywho, I went to the Polish Ambassador/Ample Mammal (it's the same guy) concert last Tuesday. About 4 or 5 people opened for him, and when he came on it was kind of sad how small the crowd was. Being a PR major, I constantly am thinking about the promotion of, well everything, so when I am at a show and I see a small crowd, it makes me wish I had been hired to do PR for the guy because I could tell he had talent that could have been advertised to many people beforehand. I got the chance to meet him afterwards and I let him know that he needed to change his Twitter name from his real name to his stage name, because if you are trying to get your stage name publicized, that is what your user name needs to be on something like Twitter, especially if you are just starting out. Despite the small crowd I really enjoyed his music and can see him getting more popular over the next year, as long he keeps up with his social media! Did I mention I discovered him through Pandora? This past summer songs by him would play on there constantly. My favorites are Portal Hopping & Cozza Frenzy by Bassnectar, Ample Mammal Remix that I mentioned in an earlier blog post. Below is a video from the show, it's a Michael Jackson remix.



Next up: Bass Center 2. I'm not sure if one blog post can cover the amount of awesomeness that was packed into this particular night. Being an AmBASSador for Bassnectar's Bass Center 2 required me to be at the venue at 12:30pm. I was on my feet for 14 hours! However, every hour was worth it, and it went by entirely too fast. After orientation of the venue that I thought I was already familiar with because MoogFest took place there, I learned very quickly that there were many places that I wouldn't even have known existed if it weren't for being a behind the scenes ambassador. We got to see all the places of the venue, got to listen to Bassnectar's soundcheck (and other soundchecks too which was SO cool because it was an empty venue, with extremely LOUDDD music) so that really was a great experience - got to be airbrushed by professionals, got to hang out with the Bassnectar crew, obviously including Lorin & got to take an "ambassador family photo" with him ..and lots lots more.. Not to mention making friends that I will have a special bond with forever. Let me just hook ya up with some stuff below.

Bassnectar's Soundcheck

                   

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Dragon we took through 8,000 people

Bass Center 2 AmBASSadors with Lorin, Bassnectar

Bass Center 2 Family Photo

If you are reading this you are most likely my Facebook friend, so check out the rest of my pictures there in my album called BASScApaDes! I took a lot and they all show way more of my night than the ones above. This night really means a lot to me, as I not only got to be part of something that I am so passionate about, but I helped create the craziest night Bassnectar has ever made for an audience. As Lia (Bassnectar's legittt assistant) put it, we weren't just there, we helped make it happen. We created memories for attendees of this event by stepping outside of ourselves to become a creature of Bass culture. We all put on our white costumes with our white matching t-shirts and were vibrant, engaging, beautiful, loud, obnoxious, adventurous, and absolutely fearless! "It is your job to teach everyone that play is an essential part of being human." I'll never forget that quote. Below is a picture of my "crew" & me...running around the venue with what we called "OCTO FUNKA BASS." No we don't even know what that means, but everyone loved it!!! That's what this night was all about. Apparently some people thought it was a spider, haha.

I wasn't just an AmBASSador for this show either as I'm now officially one for any show or Bass Center in the future! I liked how our t-shirts implied this, as it read "Ambassador since 2011". I can't image what this culture will be like in 5 years - even 1 year. Bassnectar is spreading like a wild fire and we all just want it to for the right reasons. As we talked about before the show, we do want it to spread. We want people to come out and dress up and have the time of their lives at these shows - but not because it is what's cool. We want people to come who really love the music and the whole experience that comes along with being a Bassnectar fan. We'll see where it leads us! Check out my videos from Bass Center below. This first one is when we ambassadors got to take this humongous dragon through the crowd. To my surprise, the 8,000 people there literally just moved out of our way! It was insanely awesome! (Remember to mute my music playlist on the top right).

Thennnn, get this! So the Glitch Mob played before Bassnectar at Bass Center 2. Glitch Mob is probably my #2 next to Bassnectar...and I tweeted at them with a video I took at Bass Center of their newest song. Not only did they retweet my video, but they messaged me telling me that they were going to post it on Facebook! Because of this I'm currently at 4,017 views for that specific video! Haha I love it. I'm surprised that they liked this video too because although I have an HD camera, there were so many lights at Bass Center that my camera could hardly focus on what was what. Also, the sound quality isn't perfect, but again, the bass was ridiculous there. (And I would know, I could barely BE in the front at Bass Center without wishing I had earplugs). Anywho - here's that video below!



I personally like this video below better, but I bet Glitch Mob was trying to promote their new song right now.



You can also check out my YouTube Channel kcdavmusic if you want to see my other videos, including some amazing ones from Bassnectar on New Years Eve. I'm also in the making of a "My Life...Your Entertainment" numero DOS that will be extremely better than the last one.

Wednesday night, Bassnectar played in Birmingham, Alabama. Kevin & I jokingly talked about going, but knew it really would have been ridiculous for us to drive 9 1/2 hours when we both had obligations in NC the next day. Sooo we obviously didn't go, and boy am I jealous of the AmBASSadors who did. One of my closest ambassador friends, Eduardo Castañeda went along with 3 other ambassadors that could make it and had the time of their lives. They got to be in front of the entire crowd (like we were supposed to at Bass Center but didn't because of security) got to talk & hang out with Lorin, and got to be VIP at a normal Bassnectar show. This is what I'm looking forward to as an ambassador in the future!!! I. Can. Not. Wait.
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Tuesday, February 22nd, Kevin & I went to the Kraddy & Archnemesis concert at the Lincoln Theatre. I had heard of Kraddy because he used to be a part of Glitch Mob back in the day, but when I spoke to him he really wouldn't give me an explanation why he wasn't anymore? Wonder the story there. ....But anyway, Love & Light played before them both and they were awesome! I was fortunate enough to meet everyone who performed at the Lincoln Theatre that night, and also gave Love & Light some PR tips ;-), which comes to me naturally these days. They actually contacted me on Facebook so I'm excited about possibly helping them out in the future.

Matt from Love & Light

Ryan from Love & Light


After Love & Light, Archnemesis played and they were good. Not as friendly as Love & Light, but their music was definitely something worth going to a concert for! Well, if you like electronic music. :-D

Archnemesis

Thennnn I met Kraddy!

Kraddy

To wrap up, I want to announce that Ultra Music Festival is SOLD OUT and in 28 days!!! Exactly one month away from today! I can't believe it's so close. Seventeen of my favorites are currently playing at Ultra, and apparently they still have a "Phase 3" of artists to announce so I can't imagine who else will be there.

Here are a few of my favorite songs toDAY. They change so much. Tip: probably shouldn't listen if you just woke up...even though I would :-)

Bass Down Low - The Cataracs - Proper Villains Remix
Oh My Gosh - Basement Jaxx - Broke DJ's Remix
Daze - Beats Antique
Animale - Don Diablo ft. Dragonette - Datsik Remix
It Ain't Got a Name - TC & Joker
Sandstorm - Darude - Vaski Remix
Who's That Chick - David Guetta
& then same song as above, but the Afrojack Remix - way more upbeat!

Also, my friend Nick from ThisSongIsSick.Com just sent me about 70 of these stickers. Let me know if you want one!

BYEEE!