INDIDGINUS Music & his Album "Sofa Surfer" Release on July 23rd

Hey everyone! I have so much information to share with you and so little time to get it all out before I move to Denver on July 30th! From being in Europe (which was amazing) to going to Datsik & Glitch Mob the day I got back, to discovering Indidginus (which I am very excited to tell you guys about), and finding time to pack up and visit with family and friends I barely have time to write this blog post, but I am for those of you reading it right now. :-)

First off I'd like to introduce you to INDIDGINUS. Click that link to visit the Facebook page for more information about who Indidginus is. He has completed his dubstep, dub, and dancehall inspired album "Sofa Surfer", featuring collaborations with Teba Shumba, EJ Von Lyrik, Steve Newman, Fletcher, Raggasouljah, 7Ft Soundsystem, Francesca Krnjak, Riccardo Moretti, HFB, Seb Taylor, Suns of Arqa, Tripswitch, Colin Angus and OOOD, which has a set a release date of July 23rd, 2011. This album will be a digital release on his own imprint, Indidgital. He also put an album mix up on Soundcloud and you can get free high res downloads from his bandcamp page. I personally really like "Hold Your Vision" and "Sunrise Over Sapporo", definitely check those two out!

Indidginus live at Origin Festival 2011

Indidginus's album has garnered early support from Adrian Sherwood, The Orb, Liquid Stranger, Greg Hunter, Adham Shaikh, iLL Gates and Unity Radio amongst others. He's collaborating with some outstanding people and is happy to be promoting some of the best local Cape Town talent! The Red Bull Music Studios in Cape Town have stated that they think his album is perhaps the best bass & beats album of the year and they asked him into their studios in June to write an exclusive track for them. Check out this video interview of him below, I love his accent! (Remember to mute my music playlist).

Indigital - Sofa Surfer Album Launch from one small seed on Vimeo.

Indidginus also has a guestmix and phone interview lined up for 5FM (their biggest FM radio station) on July 21st at 6pm if anyone in the area is interested in listening! And, some of the coolest news is that he could possibly be touring with iLL Gates at some point in time, which my fellow Bassnectar fans know is someone obviously credible to work with.

Thank you so much for reading and I look forward to keeping you guys posted about Indidginus in the future! Datsik & Glitch Mob info & videos coming next :-)

-Kaycie

BASSNECTAR at Red Rocks Amphitheatre 6/18/11

Bassnectar crowd at Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Ten thousand people sold out this amazing venue in Morrison, CO and Kevin & I experienced this entire show on the very front row among all of these people. This night was truly magical, as it was one of the biggest shows Bassnectar has ever had. The 10,000 people aren't the only thing that made it magical though, as I'm saying this because I saw certain people act in ways that I wouldn't have predicted. I'm not going to mention any names for this one, but I saw one person in particular that was seriously having the time of their life dancing and listening to Bassnectar's music. This person is kind of "behind the scenes" and so it was amazing to see someone so close to Lorin still have that much enthusiasm and energy during one of his shows. Sometimes at concerts you see friends or people that work for an artist just sitting down, looking at their cell phone, or just simply never smiling, but it was making my night to see how much this person was enjoying Bassnectar's show. Lorin himself, (not just his music) also made his set that much better because of how appreciative he was that we all were there for him. He thanked us all so many times and made us all take a minute to realize how valuable life is, and how amazing it is that we were all alive at that very moment. Lorin is truly an inspiring person, and him and his music have inspired me in so many different ways (this blog for one example).

Eskmo at Red Rocks

To back up the night a little bit, Eskmo opened before Beats Antique before Bassnectar and was really interesting and unique! Throughout his set he used different objects to create sounds on the microphone like squeezing a water bottle, ripping a piece of paper, and opening a Coca-Cola can. Sounds kind of weird I know, but it was actually pretty cool. He also said/sang things on the microphone that added more sound(s) to his songs. Check out my video of Eskmo below. (Remember to mute my playlist).

The crowd was just building at this point in the night. Kevin & I had spoke with Phillip Irwin before getting to Red Rocks about what time we should get there so we could get front row at the show. We ended up getting there around 3o'clock and to our surprise, no one was in line yet at one of the entrances for Red Rocks. So, we started the line along with Phillip and some of his friends that he came with. Yes, we were first in line to get into Red Rocks. Below is proof (although we look very tiny!) that we were in line first, as Stacy Morrow took this picture of us waiting to get into the venue! Haha, so cool that she could capture this moment.

First in line at Red Rocks, picture taken by Stacy Morrow (JuiceBoxBox)

Waiting to get into the venue wasn't the least bit boring either. About every 5 minutes a new group of bassheads would drive up and join us in line, so that part flew by so fast. Soon enough it was time to get into the venue, and we felt like little kids as security was yelling at us not to run as we were trying to beat the two other entrances for the front row. Needless to say, we got to the front row. :-) Center too!

Front row for Bassnectar at Red Rocks

This picture was taken after Eskmo, before Beats Antique. Beats Antique was SO GOOD! I have been so excited to see them, and they made it even better that they played my three favorite songs of theirs! Egyptic, Nesatovo, & Daze - all three of those are so good. My video below is when they played "Nesatovo" Kevin's personal favorite!

When Beats Antique first started playing, it was only two guys, and I was curious if that was it because I had always seen and pictured more people on stage (like the bellydancer) in the past, but she soon popped on stage, along with another musician. There were also other women who were dancers for Beats Antique who are part of every show on tour, not just added for certain shows. They all make up what is called Beats Antique and they put on a great and really cool show. 

Beats Antique dancers, picture taken by (SIC) Images

At the end of Beats Antique set, Bassnectar's AmBASSadors (the ones working for this specific show) got to come out and dance WITH Beats Antique. How cool is that? I'm not sure who is who because of the masks, but I was so excited when this happened for all of them! The crowd loved it too! (The AmBASSadors also did a great job at this show... giving people lots of water, full on fruit trays, and slices of pizza too, it was crackin' me up!)

Basnectar AmBASSadors dancing during Beats Antique's set

Next up ...the one and only... Bassnectar!!! By this time in the night Kevin & I couldn't have been more ready for him to come on! I never can decide if I should video the intro because if I video it, I can't fully enjoy it but then when I do video it, it's so sick to watch later (haha) so I decided that at this amazing venue I should just enjoy the intro, which I did to the fullest. Howeverrr I took three really amazing videos throughout the night. They are about 3 minutes each, and so sick when they catch the veryyy back of the crowd. Check. Them. Out.

This concert was seriously so awesome. It was in Colorado, our new state as of August, and I'm praying Bassnectar comes back again sometime this year! I can't believe he's going to be all over the east coast as soon as we move. Two shows in North Carolina too! Bass Center IV is also right after the two NC shows on September 24th and is in Washington DC. So all of you on the east coast better go for me!

Bassnectar at Red Rocks

"You're not just here to watch a show but you're here to be a part of something together." -Lorin

Crowd during Bassnectar, picture taken by Stacy Morrow (JuiceBoxBox)

Lorin said that quote above at the beginning of his set at Red Rocks, and it's so true - at least for me it is. His music is seriously like nothing else out there. I cannot WAIT until August 2nd when Divergent Spectrum comes out. Early birthday present to myself!

While visiting in Denver this past week, Kevin & I also checked out Skism at the Bluebird Theatre. As usual, we were so glad we did! Not only because Skism was sick, but the opening acts were awesome too! We missed Subliminal, but Dodger was really good, and then Jantsen was even better. Jantsen, who I actually got to meet after the show because I recently have become friends with Stacy Morrow (who's pictures I mentioned above) who is his girlfriend! Below is a picture of me with Stacy & Jantsen.

Jantsen had so much energy and really got the crowd excited and into his set! I hate when I don't see that out of music producers but when I do I know they have the talent to make it in this music industry. Jantsen's music was definitely sick and I look forward to seeing him again! (He also has made songs with Bassnectar! Heard Blast Off??? YEAH!)

Skism at Bluebird Theatre in Denver, CO

Skism was great too! I had only heard a few of his songs before the concert, like "Power" but he put on a really good show and I'd see him again. Definitely an artist to check out if you're a dub lover! Kevin & I were super excited about being at the Bluebird Theatre also because we can walk to it from our new apartment in Denver, how convenient for us? :-D Skism called the crowd the "Dubstep Capitol of the United States," which we thought was pretty cool since this is our new city.

Thanks so much for reading! I hope I made you wish you went to Bassnectar at Red Rocks, haha.. the more I watch mine and other videos I reallyyy want to be back in that moment. Can't wait for Bassnectar again, except this time I don't know when that will be! 

I may not be blogging again until I get back from Europe! I'm leaving this week but will be back July 15th, then heading to see Datsik on the 16th and Glitch Mob on the 17th. I'll be jet-lagged as hell, but...I can't miss either of those two. So talk to you then!!! ;-) 

*Kaycie

PS- obsessed with these two songs this week...
"Southpaw" by Datsik & "I Know The Truth" by Pretty Lights

STARSCAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011!

Well well well. All of my anticipation and butterflies I had before this festival definitely lived up to my expectations, as Starscape Music Festival was as good as it gets. If you like dubstep, this was the festival for you this year because there were so many awesome dubstep names on this ticket, along with many other electronic music artists! Like the shirts Kevin and I are wearing?

Starscape Music Festival

When we first arrived, we (Kevin, Patrick, Elise & I) walked around to scope out the entire place and to check out what each stage looked like. This festival, which took place in Baltimore, MD, was also located right on the water, which made the venue even more fun and entertaining. The first group we wanted to see was Zeds Dead, check out my video below. Remember to mute my music playlist before you watch!

Zeds Dead was really good and I'm glad because the last time I tried to see them they had technical problems! Next was a lot of waiting until our big favorites came on, but that didn't matter because there were plenty of other artists we wanted to check out before the late night shows began. I really enjoyed EOTO! I had no idea that EOTO was made up of two old guys - that have great music! One of the guys was even singing every lyric you heard, in different accents too! That's usually not the norm in electronic music so this made them pretty unique and cool. We caught parts of Subvert and a lot of Doorly too! My EOTO & Doorly videos are below. Doorly is playing "Raindrops" in that video, however the sound is pretty distorted because I was standing literally right in front of some subs (blame me?) Oh and someone flicks me off at the end of my EOTO video, haha!

Doorly at Starscape

After checking everybody else out that we could during the day, Bassnectar finally was ready to come on at 11pm. He opened with "Teleport Massive" and from then on out the crowd went nuts. Of course since it was outside, glowsticks were being thrown every time the bass dropped (fortunately not at Lorin, he hates glowsticks!) - check out my video of that happening below! It also started raining during his set, which was actually pretty cool. And coming from a girl with curly hair, I usually don't like rain, but I don't think anything could ever upset me at a Bassnectar concert.

Bassnectar at Starscape

You can watch my other two Bassnectar videos from Starscape here & here. Needless to say, Bassnectar was my favorite show of the night. The crowd was huge (he played at the Main Stage and was the only act of Starscape that was allotted two hours!) and I had no idea how big it was until I saw the family photo and also someone's video of the crowd on facebook a couple days ago. Here is the family photo from Starscape! My poster didn't make it in like I hoped :-( *tear 

Starscape Bassnectar Family Photo

This poster that I'm talking about that I also mentioned in my last post was a great success! I got a lot of compliments from it but what actually counts is that Lorin saw it, told me "I love this!!!" and then patted me on the head because of it. Pretty much was the cherry on top of his whole show! Kevin, Elise & Patrick also got high fives from Lorin since we were smart and waited around on the front rail for him to come down and talk to his fans. :-) Here's us on the rail with my poster!

Unfortunately because of Bassnectar we had to miss most of Datsik and all of Skrillex, but Flux Pavilion, Excision, and Doctor P made up for that! (There were also a lot of other artists I would have loved to see like TC, Feed Me, and Dieselboy but there just wasn't time for it). Flux & Doctor P were so sick - both were really equally awesome. When Doctor P was on stage he was accompanied by Flux, Datsik, AND Skrillex so it was a pretty entertaining set! Excision probably was up there too, but I don't remember catching him in any of my videos or pictures. Skrillex also played "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" during Doctor P's set so I was happy to get a little Skrillex fix in since we had to miss him. Check out my Flux & Doctor P videos below! And by the way, Doctor P has the funniest English accent! It almost sounded like he was joking every time he said something on the microphone because it was such an intense accent, haha! 

After and between these two was when we saw Excision and then also Dirtyphonics, Steve Aoki, Paper Diamond, and Rabbit. Excision was awesome but since he was between Flux & Doctor P we wanted to check out the other stages most of the time so we could experience different places in the festival more. Steve Aoki's show was going nuts as usual! When we walked up to the Dance Tent, he was poppin' champagne and preparing to get into an inner-tube with Skrillex! Haha yes, check out the video of that here! And boy was Rabbit interesting. We walked up the hill after catching most of Paper Diamond (also good) to see all sorts of gimmicks going on during the Rabbit show. Not only were the two main guys wearing rabbit-earred gas masks, but there were dancers on stage wearing similar costumes - and dancing somewhat creepily I may add! Despite the initial shock of the weirdness going on, it made the end to the night really fun and entertaining. I only got to hear about three of their songs so I can't say whether or not I like their music, but the three I heard were pretty good. Below are pictures from Rabbit, had to show you guys...

Rabbit - very different & interesting! Guy in a metal costume

Well, thank you so much for reading my blog post about Starscape! It really is an ideal festival because although 3 or 4 day festivals are awesome when it's all said and done, this one being all in one day really lets you just party all day and into the night versus having to get some sleep! Next up for Kevin & me is Bassnectar at Red Rocks. Yep, Bassnectar again so soon. How lucky are we? And at one of the coolest venues in the world. My Bassnectar Red Rocks blog post might be just as long as this one since there is going to be so much awesomeness packed into one show (Beats Antique opens for Bassnectar that night)! So exciteddddd.

Have a great day everybody!

-Kaycie

Bassnectar & Bass Center III Date Announced!

Bassnectar and his crew on really on the ball lately! Bass Island hasn't even happened yet and they already have a date set for Bass Center III. It will be held on September 17th in San Francisco, CA at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Who's excited??? Not exactly driving distance from Denver, CO but I think Kevin & I are somehow going to make this one happen for us since we can't go to Bass Island. Big Gigantic and Dan Deacon will also be at Bass Center III. Bassnectar also announced the first 7 places that he will be stopping for his Fall Tour! Check out those dates here.

Along with the announcement of Bass Center III, Bassnectar also told us that his Divergent Spectrum EP is completed! Lorin says this EP "disregards the rules and spans of the spectrum of sonic shenanigans: from dark to light, heavy to soft, and pretty to UGLY." He played some of the songs on it during Spring Tour, but some haven't been heard by anyone, and I can't wait to buy it the second it comes out!

I'm headed to Baltimore, MD tomorrow night for STARSCAPE! I couldn't be more excited. I even made a poster for Lorin, haha so I'll be uploading pictures of it after this weekend. The set times were announced last week and it's going to be a lateee night! Doctor P doesn't even come on until 3 am....and Paper Diamond until 5am? Bring it Starscape!!!

Here's a song Bassnectar has played on tour before...."Chicken Dippaz" just for fun :-)

And by the way, how SICK is that Divergent Spectrum poster? I gotta have one! 

<3 Kaycie

8 Days Until Starscape - Free Downloads & Tix!?

Hey friends! I'm sorry that there hasn't been a blog post very recently, but that's simply because I haven't been to any concerts since Rusko! Can you believe it? Might be my longest span of going without seeing a show, haha but don't worry... Starscape Music Festival is only 8 days away and I am soooo freaking pumped for it. Just a reminder of who I'm excited about seeing there, it's literally my dream festival... Bassnectar, Lotus, Steve Aoki, Feed Me, Doorly, Skrillex, Exicision, Datsik, Borgore, Flux Pavilion, Doctor P, Zeds Dead, Paper Diamond, Dirtyphonics, TC, and Dieselboy... and I apologize to all of the other artists that will be there that I didn't mention - I just haven't gotten to hear their music yet, but I'm sure I'll be adding some new favorites to my list after this awesome festival. Check out the full lineup on each stage here. I'm so excited for the blog post and all my videos and pictures that will be on here after I attend Starscape!!

Anyways just thought I'd share a couple little things with you. You can download three free songs from Skrillex, Zedd, & Flinch here. Get them while you can! You should never turn down free downloads! And remember one of my last posts about Identity Music Festival? Click here to enter a sweepstakes to win free tickets to any one of the Identity Music Festivals (since it is a traveling festival).

Here are also some new tunes I've been listening to this week, props to Kevin for finding most of them:

Fabrication - Emalkay
Jack Beats - All Night Ft. John B (Skream Remix)
Can A Drummer Get Some? (Diplo Remix)
Motivation (feat. Lil Wayne) (Diplo Remix)
DJ Fresh - Louder (Doctor P & Flux Pavilion Remix)
Foreign Beggars - Still Getting It (Feat. Skrillex)
Oh Land - Sun of a Gun (Jacob Plant Remix)
Critical Hit - Emalkay
Excision & Datsik - 8 Bit Superhero

Goodnight!! or well, good morning :-)

Bassnectar's Bass Island - August 13th - NYC

Whatttt??? BASS ISLAND??? Yes! The Bassnectar crew has done it again. There will be the first ever "Bass Island" on August 13th, in New York City held by Bassnectar. Bass Island will be just like a Bass Center, except...on an island! However, it won't be quite like the past two Bass Centers, as Bassnectar's shows are just going to keep getting bigger, better, and crazier. The actual event will take place on South Island Field at Governors Island, so for anyone that can make it to this event, you are in for a treat! Advance tickets are on sale right now, May 12th and I'm sure regular tickets will be on sale soon, but visit Bassnectar's website to read more about Bass Island, how to submit other artists that you would like to see there as well, and also about how Red Rocks SOLD OUT today!

Red Rocks, one of the most amazing venues in the country, is where Bassnectar (and Beat's Antique!) will be playing on June 18th as I've mentioned many times before. This 10,000 person venue sold out today, and Kevin & I will be 2 of those 10,000. Ten THOUSAND people!!! I'm not even going to say anything else about that.

As for news about Bassnectar's latest music, we do not know if it's going to be an album or an EP, but we do know that it's name is "Divergent Spectrum" and that it is coming "soon". I don't think soon will be as fast as we want it though, as the Bassnectar crew encouraged fans to "release their excitement over an extended period of time so that we don't explode." Good advice! Haha :-)

Lorin (Bassnectar) also answered a fan's question about "why he doesn't play his older material at shows?" This actually isn't true! Click here to read what Lorin answered to that question, and click the songs below to hear some of my favorite older Bassnectar tunes.

Bomb Tha Blocks
Underground Communication
Kyrian Bee Bop
Impossible and Overwhelming

Night!

Pretty Lights, Rusko, & Identity Music Festival

Hey people! I'm so sorry I haven't talked about Pretty Lights or Rusko yet! I have lots to talk about - including an awesome festival that is coming to NC in August!

Pretty Lights

Derek Smith

Pretty Lights on April 19th was a lot of fun! Despite the people that literally grinded on me the entire show, I thoroughly enjoyed it. There was one more thing though. It's official that the Raleigh Amphitheatre is just NOT loud enough for a concert like that. I can understand if you're there to see Jack Johnson or someone of that genre but electronic music is meant to be heard loud, and I was having conversations with my friends while we were on the front row (yeah that shouldn't be possible). I know it couldn't have been any louder though because it was as loud as Raleigh, NC allows it to be, as that city has noise ordinances and also makes artists end their shows by 11pm at that particular venue. Fortunately it got dark around 8 something since the show had to start at 6 because people were worried that it wasn't even going to be dark to see Derek's 'pretty lights'! However, those were also lacking a bit as all of his lights were mainly on screens instead of shining out into the crowd like I've seen in the past.  Below is my video from this show, then a video from when I saw him at MoogFest. Compare the lighting! The last two times I saw him with his drummer Adam Deitch too, which also made the show have a little more of the bass I like to hear with the drums! I don't think any PL show will ever top the first time I saw him at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh over a year ago. The lights + sound + people were perfect! (Remember to mute my playlist on the right before you play a video).

In the first video at around 40 seconds you can see a great view of the crowd, and the city of Raleigh behind them.

Now to talk about Rusko.... boy what a different experience than Pretty Lights. I saw Rusko recently at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, but seeing him as his own personal show without seeing other artists all day long makes it so much fun, not to mention he had his own sick lights that spelled out R-U-S-K-O. Rusko is seriously so fun to watch in concert. I give him mad props for having that much energy throughout his entire show, because even I stopped to catch my breath a few times, but he was literally going the whole time! Doorly opened for him, who I personally really like, but he needs to step up his game during his performance! To get more popular as a music producer, you can't just play your music in front of the crowd and expect everyone to be enthused. You have to talk to the crowd, dance with the crowd...pump your crowd up doing whatever it takes! I'm sure he'll get some tips from Rusko since he currently is touring with him, and here is one of my favorite jams by him called "Bonkers". But anyways, back to Rusko! He was great. I love all of his music, and he played a bunch of new stuff for us too. Kevin even got a autographed poster from him! Sadly it got a little crinkled throughout the show since he bought it beforehand but the crinkles were worth it. :-) Check out my video from this show at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC.

Rusko

Speaking of Rusko and Pretty Lights, there is an AMAZING festival coming to Charlotte, NC on August 16th (and 19 other places in the country as well) with soooooo many good artists! This festival is called the Identity Festival, check out the line up below (more artists to come too). Identity is the first-ever touring electronic music festival!

Yeah so if you like the music I like, I'd be at this one! Here are the other cities and dates below:

I'm glad I finally got to talk about those two shows and this awesome festival! I'm currently avoiding studying for my very last exam of college, but hey I'll get to that soon enough. Here are some songs (old & new) that I want to share today for those of you who care! These are just some of the ones I'm jammin to this week!

Rusko Remix - "Remedy" - Little Boots
Rusko Remix - "Pro Nails" - Kid Sister

Flux Pavilion Remix - "Blue Skies" - Jamiroquai
Roksonix - "2 Bad"
Roksonix - "Skank Tank"

Tek One - "Broken String"

Doctor P - "Badman Sound"
Doctor P - "Sick Tonight"

Excision & DZ - "Yin Yang"

Zeds Dead - "Journey of a Lifetime"
Savoy - "Let Me Get Some Action"

Love & Light - "Can't Stop" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Example - "Changed The Way You Kissed Me"

and if you're feeling extra funky..

Datsik & 12th Planet - "Texx Mars"
Excision & Downlink - "Heavy Artillery"
Skrillex - "The Disco Rangers Bus (Knows How To Rock N Roll)"
Skrillex - "With You, Friends"

Thanks for reading! And happy Cinco de Mayo!
<3 Kaycie

What is a Bassnectar AmBASSador you might ask?

I am a Bassnectar AmBASSador and I am so proud to be one! Click this link to read the first coverage done on the Bassnectar Ambassador program, and to learn what we are all about.

And by the way, Kevin is now an AmBASSador too!!! He was chosen last week to be a part of this program, which I'm obviously thrilled about!

My recent Pretty Lights & Rusko experiences are coming soon!

-Kaycie

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!