House Music Please

And now after that moment of silence, we can move onto more uplifting pastures like the fields of the Ultra Music Festival. I was just in Florida on my Spring Break where I caught Ultra and the Winter Music Conference in Miami--home of big fake boobs, trashy Euros, guys jacked up on steroids and more party people in one place
than I've ever seen before. It was crazy--unlike anything I have ever experienced before. Case in point:
This was just one of many serious getups (or lack thereof) we saw at Ultra--the foremost festival event in the U.S. for DJ's and electronic music of all sorts--house, techno, hip-hop, and lots of other genres I couldn't even begin to recognize. The festival was complemented by a constant cluterfuck of pool parties, club events, panels, showcases, expos and more. At any given time you could wander into a party and bump into the next big thing. We were followed by lots of heavy bass and drums wherever we went--day and night to help us keep the party flowing.

The night we got in we saw DJ Sasha and John Digweed at the monster club Mansion. They are both amazing--so much energy, power, and emotion.
Towards the end of the night, one of the several writhing, mostly-naked dancers these DJ's like to have on stage since they can't do much but pound their fists behind the boards walked into the massive crowd with some fire. Delightful:

Check out Sasha remixing Thom Yorke's The Eraser: That's the kind of energy I'm talking about!

Here we have another set of winners who, in case you needed help figuring out what they were on, wrote "XTC" on their legs:

Also caught the end of Miss Kittin, who sounded pretty gorgeous, although I wasn't thrilled about the stuff I heard on her website and Myspace.
Deep Dish and their dancers really got the crowd going: You might recognize them from "Say Hello" which they started with and segued into a sweet remix of "The Kids Aren't Alright" which was a popular track all weekend.


On day 2 we escaped a downpour to catch Fatboy Slim in the big tent--it was so steamy because of the rain and everyone dancing their asses off but awesome!






By the by, sorry for the extended hiatus! This blogging thing is hard to do every day...I wonder how so many of the pros do this all day now. The big blogs update like every 10 minutes, but I guess they employ people and pour all their time and energy into it. Anyway, more for me, the non-pro tomorrow!