To microdose local producers RealMusic Events’ three-day rager of an electronic music festival, Seismic Dance Event, one could simply live near the grounds of their co-presenting far East Austin home base,In terms of international dance establishments, the club looms as the most red-light-drenched, concrete cavern of a rave haunt – er, multipurpose event venue –in at least the last seventeen years.
These ravers were baby-faced, mostly, with a preference for black clothing – the edgy aesthetic prevalent among a crowd sporting cursive-font tees reading “Techno” and “House X Techno.” The sartorial references sidelined dominant musical currents at the fest, which might have been more handily represented as “Trance X Techno.”RealMusic wisely catered to their crowd, skewing young whereas other festivals might pump headliners well into their 50s almost exclusively.
Which is not to say that this was a festival of only kiddos, in the crowd or onstage. On day one, German headliner me played a mind-melting set to segue gorgeously from Australian DJ Cassian . For the first time since 2002, Fatboy Slim returned to Austin, closing out the inside Volcano stage Saturday night.
SeismicTX concourseproj “Seismic”? Must be all the fracking.