|
User
Album Ratings 6
Last Active 07-22-14 1:50 am
Joined 07-18-13
Review Comments 36
| Camp Bisco 2013 - A 420 Aficionado's Guide
On a whim, I went to the most drugged out electro festival I've ever
been to. Some of the most talented artists are forgotten about amidst
hoardes of totems (ironic logos on a poll that festival organizers want to
be called 'rage sticks') and overzealous teenagers and 20somethings,
many proclaiming "you wish I was on the drugs I was on". More intimate
than Bonnaroo or Coachella, there was plenty of good food, security is
always so overwhelmed by determined experimentation that there's little
they can do. Semi-anonymously posted for semi-obvious reasons | | 1 | | Thursday
July 11
Rolling in at 3am, successfully hiding 22g of weed (a misdemeanor in the state of
New York). We set up camp and met the neighbors. A miscreant named Zach,
who seemed to be on Ketamine and Cocaine, buying Ketamine and Cocaine and
selling Cocaine and Ketamine (only the best stuff - totally fire). Thankfully, in
helping set up a more level-headed neighbor's tent. He and his girlfriend joined our
group of miscreants in our quest at bisco. | | 2 | | Nick Thayer
Worlds Collide EP
* A young dj with intrigue from both Pretty Lights and Skrillex. A solid act who is
unfortunately likely to never escape Pretty Lights' shadow. His remix of Bell Biv
Devoe's "Poison" was ace, while his version of "Strawberry Fields Forever" left
something to be desired | | 3 |  | Koan Sound
The Adventures of Mr. Fox
** Awesome beached out stoned vibes | | 4 |  | Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
The Heist
* "I got $20 in my pocket, this is fucking awesome". Admit it. It's still super catchy. | | 5 |  | KJ Sawka
Cyclonic Steel
Great introduction to the Label Tent -- awesome spires create a cool aesthetic.
Unfortunately, this guy was not so hot. | | 6 |  | Seven Lions
Days to Come
* Not quite as excellent as my new neighbor friend had hoped, this standout dj still
put on a solid show. | | 7 | | RL Grime
Grapes EP
** Henry Steinway aka Clockwork aka RL Grime (somehow not in the sputnik db)
played an overcrowded tent, but justified it with quality trap. Flosstradamus was
even more crowded later on and while that seemed bumping it was just too much. | | 8 |  | Flux Pavilion
Lines in Wax
* 'Let the bass cannon kick it'. Steele is not as fantastic as some claim, but he still
gets things bumpin quite nicely | | 9 |  | Sound Tribe Sector 9
Artifact
* Cool lights. Similarly veined to the Disco Biscuits but more to my liking | | 10 |  | Umphrey's McGee
Death by Stereo
Proof that I don't like country | | 11 |  | Dillon Francis
Westside!
** When he was on, he was so on. The best set of the day at times, he ruined it
a little towards the end by telling the crowd how to party (the last thing all the
coked and molly'd out crowd wanted to hear), but one of the kings of moombahton
still brought it | | 12 |  | Boys Noize
Out Of The Black
* Always good. It was just a little too late to fully enjoy | | 13 | | Friday
July 12
A sketchy dude comes by to sell Opium, K and Coke, before the legit tradesmen
come by. An acid guy came by with a test kit ("That man knows his acid" said a
neighbor), another with some sour d (can't fake that smell), then came a couple
guys with opium (sampled by some neighbors who became very relaxed), a guy with
some coke ("my names mateo, and i'm selling yay-o"), another with chocolates
("wait we got chocolates already" "dude that's not what he's selling ..." "ohhh"),
and then a slightly sketchy guy with shrooms and coke, before someone came by
with some molly ("dude, you have pizza? Pepperoni pizza is what I really want right
now, where do we get that delivered?"), more mushrooms (30 an 8th, 60 a
quarter). So much came by that one of my friends jokingly asked to no one in
particular, "yo where's the crystal meth at?" to which someone within earshot
unhelpfully replied "nah yo but I got coke in my car". Someone then came by with
some very artistic metal / gemwork ("Can I get high off that?" said a stupid stoned
neighbor to little avail). With the crowd now moaning that they were being given a
cursory check upon entering the venue ("they already checked us when we came
to the parking lot -- they're not gonna find our drugs"). And just like that, day 2
was on the way | | 14 |  | Toro y Moi
Causers of This
I feel like I should like chill wave, but then I just never quite do. As an aside, the
very intelligent crowd's pronunciations were rather hilarious -- all weekend, potable
water was now pahtable water and toro y moi was toro y moy. (sigh) | | 15 |  | Dan Deacon
Bromst
*** I only just was convinced to not see Killer Mike a 2nd time and was so glad I
was because this man was the surprise of the festival. He used the crowd as
props, getting them to organize and making anyone who didn't play along feel
isolated until they left. He fiddled around with the audience, getting us to form a
huge tunnel, splitting off into 2 dancing teams, forcing people into the middle of a
dance circle and doing so with so much gusto and likability it was palpable. If I was
a multi-millionaire and my kid needed a dj for his bar mitzvah -- there's no one
better for the task than the Deekster. | | 16 |  | Bondax
Just Us
Unfortunately, these 2 youngsters did not show up, just as Animal Collective was
canceled and Break Science was moved around. The Disco Biscuits run things with
an iron fist, notoriously cutting Amon Tobin short, placing themselves on either side
of Bassnectar and changing the set last minute. | | 17 |  | Animal Collective
Centipede Hz
Further bemoaning what could have been. Thievery Corporation was a big enough
name to take their place, but the whole planning element and "that schedule is
wrong" really through everything for a loop. | | 18 | | Chris Malinchak
So Good to Me
* Solid trance act amidst the chaos | | 19 |  | Bassnectar
Mesmerizing The Ultra
** Playing his 7th bisco and the driving force behind turning the jam-bandy biscuits
onto hosting primarily bassy electronic bands, Bassnectar's shows at bisco create
more hoopla than anywhere else. Every 5th person is brandishing their own totem,
everyone's jostling for position and the crowd going nuts. Musically, it wasn't quite
what I fully hoped, but the experience was more than worthwhile | | 20 |  | Destroid
Silent World
* Perhaps it was just too much eletro. Excision, Donwlink and KJ Sawka brought
the filth, but I just wasn't on quite enough drugs to enjoy them. Still, I was glad to
have seen it. | | 21 | | Aeroplane
We Can't Fly
* I was only half awake, but I was chilllinn. | | 22 | | Saturday
July 13
Waking up to some Gummy vites (not a euphemism, that stuff's delicious and
nutritious), someone came by with more Ketamine ("Ugh, do you have like Anything
else?"), before we considered buying hash oil pills (we were so stoned, we decided
that at best they would be bunk). Then we reminisced back on what we've seen.
The perfect pre-bisco encounter (the man at wall mart, already zonked, staring at
neon glow goldfish asking "whoa will they like glow in regular light?" and intent on
buying them), . Neighbors both touted a new-ish drug, MDA, very heavily then
wondered if it actually did anything (by looking at the guy, it did). And the regular
stupid things -- answering queries like can I pour my molly in my gatorade with "is
that Red gatorade?" Hanging around all these awesome crazy people was just what
I needed and even though I was too zonked (almost all the weed was somehow
already gone), smelly (no showers) and exhausted (refusal to take hard drugs
meant a lack of superhuman energy) to truly enjoy the last day of music, it was a
good day nonetheless | | 23 |  | Break Science
Monolith Code
This duo wound up hiding off in the small tent, due to scheduling conflict of a
sinking main stage in the morning. Not that the biscuits would miss one of their 7
sets but force others to move around instead | | 24 |  | Danny Brown
XXX
* Can't stand the guy's voice, but he played "terrorist threats" (originally by Ab-
Soul), so he gets a star. Also it was hilarious to hear electro heads say incorrect
thing after incorrect thing about him | | 25 | | Heroes and Villains
Examples of the Cataclysmic
Not for me | | 26 |  | Zeds Dead
Rude Boy
** What my friends called simple, unoriginal and boring, I thought was a perfect
mellow set. Playing others music and seamlessly blending on their own, this duo
could do no wrong as far as I was concerned, though I was certainly in the minority
with this thinking. | | 27 | | Tommy Trash
(nothing original)
Ugh. I guess people actually like this music? | | 28 |  | The Disco Biscuits
Otherwise Law Abiding Citizens
****** Can't decide whether to give these guys 0 or 6 stars but these were the
guys behind the festival, having put it on with an every growing group of friends /
talented musicians. | |
steveaoki
07.18.13 | As usual
- meh
* - cool
** - awesome
*** - etc etc
wasn't quite about the music after a while but I'm glad I went | aok
07.18.13 | I'm so tired, I hope this turned out alright | PurpleBottle
07.18.13 | zomg DESTROID! | Brostep
07.18.13 | WOOT KOAN SOUND | steveaoki
07.19.13 | yea brostep is the trvest contributor forsure! | klap
07.19.13 | dude tommy trash is the worst. my friends took me away from justice at hard haunted last year to see a little and i left within 15 to go back | Aids
07.19.13 | oh man dude that's insane. I can get down with some mdma and occasionally acid but K is cray (tee hee) and I always hate myself when I do coke. and opium hahaha awesome.
almost an oz of weed, NOICE
sounds like a festival, I approve
| cfbassist
07.20.13 | umphrey's is definitely not country, at camp bisco they didn't have their bassist and it hurt their set a lot, but they bring the heat usually. Also i'm guessing you didn't last long enough friday for the Lotus late night, amazing band that does a mix of funk, electronic, and jazz.
Glad to hear you liked Koan Sound, he and Herobust were my two favorite electronic acts of the weekend. | cfbassist
07.20.13 | Also, so glad i went VIP this year and didn't have to deal with any of the shadyness, funny that you met "mateo", i bumped into him the one night i was at my friends campsite in GA | Azn.
07.20.13 | seven lions is definitely a standout | PuddlesPuddles
07.20.13 | Camp Bisco. Constantly vomit thinking of the existence of not only the festival, everyone included and this list, but at my knowledge of the above gained mostly by seeing trashy, drugged-up, insipid, ignorant rave girls.
Will go next year. Equipped with nukez. | klap
07.20.13 | those are the best kind puddles | aok
07.21.13 | at @cf -- yea, i've seen lotus 2 or 3 times already so i didn't feel the need to see them again at 4am (saw Zomby at 4am 3 days ago tho). |
|
