Bassnectar’s latest EP goes back to the sounds of ‘Diverse Systems of Throb’. I love it. This is the Bassnectar I fell in love with. I’ve enjoyed his last 2 albums, Divergent Spectrum more than Vava Voom. Vava Voom seemed more full of thug bass. The Freestyle EP goes back to those ethereal vocals and the slow build up of beats that drops into trance-like bass beats. It’s dreamy. It’s what I love about Bassnectar. The ability of his beats to transport you into a dream. Breathless is on repeat. I can’t get enough. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/2618220″ height=”200″ iframe=”true” /]…
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The past two weeks I have had quite a lot going on, so I’m going to start with the most recent and go from there. My birthday was on Monday, and we celebrated by leaving the previous Thursday and spending 4 days in the middle of the woods in northern Oregon at a place called Horning’s Hideout. It’s a beautiful venue with one stage right on a resevoir, and wild peacocks wander around the area, fluffing up their beautiful feathers. Camp sites were tight, tents right on top of each other, but it made for an interesting experience, and unlike at Sasquatch, we actually interacted and chilled with our neighbors when we weren’t asleep or at one of the shows. People had driven from Santa Cruz, and even as far as Chicago. We really didn’t know what we had walked into, I thought it was going to be like Sasquatch but it became apparent that we were surrounded and immersed in counter culture. This has been by far the most hippe, for lack of a better word, fest I have ever been to, but I say that with respect. I have never been to a music event where people aren’t…
Memorial weekend was my first official music festival. Four days of camping and raving out at the Gorge Amphitheater in the middle of Washington, along the Columbia River. I have only been to the Gorge once before, 5 years ago when I went to Pearl Jam with some coworkers from Camp Reed for our weekend off. I had forgotten what a truly breathtaking view there is from the hill around the main stage. It is a beautiful venue, but also extremely hot in the summer, it is in the middle of a desert/farmland. I got sunburned and was wearing my sunglasses too long over the weekend. I look like the coon. Over the course of the weekend, I saw these artists play: DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid The Head & the Heart Local Natives Pink Martini Washed Out The Glitch Mob Sleigh Bells Bassnectar Fitz & the Tantrums Tokyo Police Club Beach House Cold War Kids Flogging Molly Gold Panda The Flaming Lips Flying Lotus MSTRKRFT Ratatat Young the Giant Old 97’s Chromeo (Bolded artists were the performances I really loved, but ALL the performances were amazing) And then the Trailer Park Boys made an appearance and it was…