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So Global… I haven’t even had time to process how great it was. It all started Friday with me and my good friend Jalen taking the media bus up behind the main stage of Red Rocks. We went to the top right away to go to the second stage dying to see Krewella who I must say blew our expectations away. We were slammin’ drinks waiting for the crowd to get a little crazier in the VIP when the rest of our crew of friends shows up. Then it started to get crazy.. We went into VIP to dance a bit for Krewella as the sun was setting. Not five minutes later the section was overflowing with elated fans dancing their asses off. Realizing that it was getting insane we turn around to see if the crowd behind us had grown. Well the whole of the upper part of red rocks was PACKED to the brim with people. People were overflowing into the VIP hoping the fence, the security guards almost helpless with the sheer volume of people up there raging to their favorite tunes. Krewella’s set finished up and we decided we would go check out some of the booths before Knife Party came on the main stage. Smoked a dude up and got free Puffalo’s hats. (For those that don’t know its basically the most weed oriented hat for CU Boulder possible) Ironically enough on our way down to the main stage after establishing our location for the rest of the concert we see Krewella in the VIP having more fun than anyone around them. I have to say, seeing artists love what they do but also be diehard fans still, makes me so psyched and hopeful that not all famous musicians will sell out and not want to interact with their fans.
Turns out that the members or Krewella, Jahan Yousaf and her sister Yasmine along with producer Rain Man are also nice as shit! Knife Party and Steve Angello kinda let us down. It being Knife Party’s first appearance at Red Rocks, and having some killer music already produced we were expecting to see a legendary moment at Red Rocks but it just didn’t seem to live up to what we had envisioned. Steve Angello of Swedish House mafia has a pretty annoying accent, and the fact that he kept saying “I’m Steve Angelloooooo” didn’t help our opinions of the performance… All that said they were both very fun to dance to and such, plus my ears were blown out, Steve Angello was actually so loud and repetitive toward the end we left early..
Friday I went to Beta for the super secret DJ, as the line up on Saturday wasn’t all that mindblowing, but Morgan Paige at beta wasn’t that insane either, being that the previous two years it was deadau5 and Dada Life..
Yet it was all going to come together for a night of 100% grade A dubstep: SUNDAY AT GLOBAL.
Sunday oooooh man it was unreal. The lineup on the main stage was pretty legendary, most noteably Dillon Francis, Crizzly, Adventure Club, Figure, Zeds Dead and Excision. Everyone killed their sets, got the crowd moving, jumping, and basically doing everything in their power to try and convey the flood of pure ecstasy that the music drive deep into their soles. Plus a lot of people were on a lot of drugs. Anyway my favorite of the night was definitely Dillon Francis, he fucking knocked it out of the park. Such a diverse set from dubstep to moombahton sampling songs from all genre’s. I fell in love with seeing Dillon Francis live that night. Here’s a taste of the Dill:

Adventure Club stayed in their zone of very emotional, lovey dovey, sad, dark dubstep. You know the dubstep you can have sex to. We didn’t get a chance to see Crizzly because the ain stage was so stacked with talent that we didn’t leave the whole time. Zeds Dead was outrageously mind blowing, Omar Linx? Well I thought he did a great job, but with Zeds Dead’s classic songs such as Coffee Break… I just want to hear it whomp without rap behind it, regardless of my opinion it was sick:

Anyway I thought they did an amazing job. Onto EXCISION!!! Holy facemelt. All the stereotypical dubstep adjectives such as face melting, ear tearing, eye bleeding, ragefest… They basically all apply to EXCISION better than any dubstep group I have ever seen. Watch this shit..

Ya insanely awesome. They threw down one of the most intense sets I have seen, constant insanity. Not really a break for their whole set.. My legs died but I was in heaven, talk about being sore from dancing too much. I can’t even call it dancing really it was all too crazy. The energy was growing the entire time right up to the moment the music was turned off and we were all left dumbfounded trying to process what happened. Killer show, killer crowd, killer setting… Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks is here to stay and if you haven’t been get a ticket for next year, I promise it’s an experience in its own that any dance music person will enjoy, and most likely attend again. And again….

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