Sasquatch! 2011: The electro wrap-up

The siren blared and lights flashed brightly as the state trooper’s car pulled up behind us. It was 8 AM, the Tuesday morning after Sasquatch.

Pulling over to the side of the highway, my co-pilot commented on my outfit.

Covered in glitter, barefoot, feathers in my hair and sporting a robe lathered in psychedelic patterns. Was I really about to talk to a cop?

As he strolled up to the window, scanning me from head to toe, a half-moon smile spread across my face as flashbacks from the weekend ensued.

Saturday. Bassnectar and The Glitch Mob.

A dubstep prophet and a new age rock band that plays their computers like Fender Stratocasters.

Sunday. Gold Panda, Flying Lotus, MSTRKRFT, and Ratatat.

The UK new age meets hip-hop’s connection with the counterculture, all to be topped off by old cats thriving in the depths of music accessibility via the interwebs.

The entire night after Ratatat’s closing set , and well into Monday, praises from hipsters with glowsticks echoed throughout the Gorge.

“Man, did you lose yourself in MSTRKRFT like I did?” said Shawn Norman, a Native American-headress sporting music lover from Vancouver, Canada.

Monday brought Bonobo, Skrillex, and Major Lazer.

While Major Lazer bred mainstream with popular dance , Skrillex brought the heat with his heavy brand of electronic dubtempo. The former frontman of a screamo band, From First to Last, has been touring since he was 16 and started producing electronic music in 2008. However, regardless of the odd transition, he has yet to retire from stage diving.

“People like to call it dubstep, but I think it’s beyond that,” he said. “I really just like to create a unique live show experience that people can live to.”

When the L.A.-based producer energetically swaggered into the press tent, he put his fist out for a “dab” and immediately asked where an energy drink was. Despite having a laptop and two hard drives stolen (which included his new album) in Milan, Italy this past April, the metalhead, dubstep producer Skrillex never stops smiling.

“You coming to the show tonight?” he asked. “It’s time to dance!”

Oh, and Bonobo. He rocked everyone’s world. He, Simon Green, and Gold Panda seldom (if at all) used any samples and remixed original content in a manner that had the crowd mesmerized.

Original content, though. There is the mulligan that plagued my experience in the Banana Shack dance tent throughout Sasquatch.

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