materializes on Zoom. In the last 72 hours, the artist born Jesse Kardon played his first set on the main stage at EDC Las Vegas, bringing a crowd of roughly 80,000 on the sonic rollercoaster ride that his thunderous dubstep facilitates. The set included a very special guest: Kardon’s wife Sonya Broner, who produces music as Level Up and who appeared alongside her husband for their debut as Leveltronics.
3. What did your parents do for a living when you were a kid, and what do they think of what you do now? a really intense, involved, busy and complicated way of mixing. So every time either of us has ever done a back to back, we struggle. It’s hard. I have so many back to back memories where, because I mix in this particular way, it’s really challenging. The whole time I’m overthinking and I’m watching what they’re doing like, “Oh, they just missed that cue.” So being able to DJ with someone who does the exact same thing was like mixing in the mirror. It was so easy and so effortless.
So it feels massive, but then there’s perspective shifters. I’ll never forget when I first went to Lollapalooza and saw a crowd of a major pop star and the scale that’s on. Or watching the Billie Eilish documentary and seeing the grandness of that and how massive it is. I’ve had many times where my perspective has been changed, and I’m like, “We really ain’t sh–.” This is niche, small stuff for sure.