Just about two weeks ago, my girl and I ventured over to the House of Blues here in Boston early, like around 7:00pm, to wait in line for the DEADMEAT TOUR. We had balcony seats and weren't about to be stuck standin behind some lames cuz we got there a little later than others. Not to mention, this was an all ages show so there were tons of "new electronic dance music fans" that were beaded out and covered in neon clothing. I put that shit in parenthesis because sooo many fuckin people say they love electronic music now yet half of them were the ones always saying, "I hate techno music, there's no words" like a year or two ago.....but I digress.
So after waiting in this line for close to an hour and being just about molested by the crack team security at the House of Blues, we were in, and cruise right up to a killer spot in the first balcony. Then we got settled with a few Red Bulls and just waited to have our faces melted clean off of our face.
The first DJ was some young kid, who actually was pretty fuckin ill, but he wasn't spinnin his own shit, still legit though. Of course I don't remember his name, so if anyone reading this does please leave a comment so I can try and find this kid, he's got potential. He spun for about an hour as the crowd spilled in, then he handed the CDJ's over to this dude Autoerotique. Now this cat is stellar, hailing from Toronto, Canada, Autoerotique is all about absolute bangers with drops that make you wonder where the fuck he got those samples and that sound?! This dude got the crowd hyped, he's a perfect opener for Steve Aoki and Datsik, but he was so dope, I would absolutely pay to see him headline any show.
DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS DUDE, HE IS THE FUTURE, IF NOT THE NOW OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC!
As Autoerotique ended his set, we were graced with the presence of the ever so popular stage hands, who changed the set around and wheeled out Datsik's booth. Fully equipped with a large LED Logo of his name that changed colors and it was a raised platform, simple yet fuckin sick.
It's now time for the Dubstep DJ that makes our ears bleed to hit the stage and do his thing. Datsik's set was nothing short of amazing; sampling some great hip hop like Dead Prez and even including older tracks like "Swagga" put out by Excision and himself in 2009. While simultaneously blending it all in with his new bangers that got the entire sold out crowd jumping, bopping, and straight going fuckin insane! Datsik's stage presence is nothing to forget either; diving into the crowd and surfing right after he drops intense dub beats, throwing Rockstar Energy Drinks into the sea of ravers and getting the crowd going by screamin on the mic right before some of the drops! This guy is truly a great dubstep DJ and has numerous tracks that I consistently wanna bump.
Yet again the stage hands hit the set to change it all around for our headliner, Mr. Steve Aoki. His booth consisted of this sort of half shell of LED lights that changed color and had all sorts of different variations that was raised a few feet off of the ground. He also had his named spelt out in huge LED lights surrounding him. Now when this dude hit the stage, everyone went fuckin insane, I mean they killed the lights and he snuck up behind the set and then just jumped up onto the booth and addressed the crowd, it was nuts. Now Aoki just got right into it, droppin banger after banger of his and a few from artists on his label, Dim Mak Records. Now I've seen Aoki once before at Identity Festival this past Summer and I was instantly hooked. He's all about the show and he loves to climb his set constantly. This time Aoki was throwin ice water on people in the crowd, he had two cakes that he threw onto people in the first row, he blasted three champagne bottles onto everyone that he could, he threw Rockstar Energy Drinks, Vitamin Waters and Poland Spring Waters into the mosh of heads. I mean it was crazy the things he was doing! Then the dude gets his team to throw an air mattress into the crowd and set it onto the side a little bit. Now Aoki is fuckin climbin to our balcony with no ropes or harness and walking across the ledge! The guy then grabs onto my girlfriend and I and stands up onto the railing and just fuckin jumps onto the air mattress that is in the crowd on the floor and crowd surfs away! Is this not the craziest DJ performance you have ever heard of?
All in all his set was dope and he is really a showman, this was easily worth the $30. By this time my girl and I are soaked in sweat, champagne, Aoki's sweat and our legs are like Jello. Steve Aoki and Datsik ended the show with both of them jumping onto the air mattress in the crowd and floated away atop of hundreds of ravers hands.....Only to then fall into the crowd and have to walk all the way to the front of the stage.
My advice to all of you is to go to any of these guys live shows as they will prove to be a killer time!
Be sure to go to http://www.houseofblues.com/venues/clubvenues/boston/ for all the latest and greatest shows coming to the bean. Rusko, Nero and DJ Shadow are all coming in the next few months so come rage with me!
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Also check out Dim Mak Records at http://dimmakrecs.com/ for all of the newest Steve Aoki, Datsik, Autoerotique and other artists new music, news and shows!
And remember, until your next show, don't kiss Molly, she's a bitch and is not to be fucked with.
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