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A New Path Forward

May 6, 2020 By Michael

A New Path Forward for the Music Industry

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Unique Times - Early 2020 

Festivals all over the world are being canceled, postponed, or reimagined due to the Covid-19 outbreak.  Since the dawn of the internet, there have never been such far-ranging closures, travel restrictions, gathering prohibitions, government-mandated lockdowns, and stay at home orders.  Seemingly overnight, the world has changed. The world has adapted. Many people are 'working from home' as a result.

Two of the most startling visual representations of the drastic change experienced across the world include:

  1.  The Decrease of Pollution in China as Seen from Space
  2.  The Decrease in Percentage of People Traveling Within Cities Across the Globe

The drastic changes in society have caused many artists to rethink their approach, dust off their online marketing skills, and rekindle those email lists.  Gone are the golden days of the recording industry when artists could make money from physical sales of CDs, Tapes, and Records.  Are the golden days of touring gone too? Many artists have turned online for answers.  

New Opportunities

It seems as though this is just the beginning.  The door has been opened for a while but people are catching on to the possibilities afforded by high-speed internet and the creations of talented computer software engineers who make the whole process happen seamlessly.  While earning money online is not novel, it is becoming more widespread and mainstream.  Festivals are popping up online.  Artists are streaming from their homes, and people are finally tuning in to be apart of the live events happening left and right. Bands are playing to in-person crowds of zero while streaming their sets to thousands.  Large organizations are amplifying the movement even further and some are even raising money for charities on top of that.

A New Frontiers - Online Festivals

Let's take a deep dive into a recent online festival. Beatport hosted an online festival, ReConnect.

The festival featured 33 hours of uninterrupted music, featured artists from around the world streaming from their homes, and raised over $180,000 in the process.  Get this, the cost of a ticket was $0!

Not even Live Nation's greedy little hands could tack on a $10+ digital 'convenience' charge. According to Beatport's' website, all of the money raised was donated to the WHO’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund as well as the AFEM (Association for Electronic Music) Members’ COVID-19 Hardship Fund. Although, on a different page there is the "Bridges for Music" organization that is cited as a recipient of donations. Regardless, the money was definitely donated to several charitable organizations.

How did they do it you might ask? They corraled a top-notch list of acts and leveraged the artist's networks to promote the event.  Sure Beatport has its own reach but by collaborating with artists, who promoted the event and their set times, amplified the awareness for the event and leveraged geographically diverse 'influencers'.  The event was an Electronic Music Event and According to Alive 365,

ReConnect reached over 8.5 million people!

Hey Boomers, only 400,000 people attended Woodstock, for reference. That is over 21x the size of Woodstock!  The nature of the event is completely different than traditional concerts with artists live-streaming their sets from their homes. It was an intimate party.  Families, friends and strangers alike tuned in on their preferred platform.  Twitch, a gamer-centric live-streaming company helped provide the servers and tech so that millions could take part in the event.  People tuned in on YouTube as well.  All the while, live chats and donations streamed in. It is an incredible feat for technology and artists alike that people were able to come together on short notice and "ReConnect" the world through music. It is perhaps the largest music festival ever to have occurred.  A list of the largest concerts top out at 3.5 million people and the largest festival tops out at 3.1 Million attendees.

The Initial LineUp from ReConnect featured electronic musicians and DJs from around the world and included:  A-Trak, Agoria, ANNA, Axel Boman, BLOND:ISH, Bonobo (DJ set), Carl Cox, Chris Liebing, Destructo, Duke Dumont, Eats Everything, GRiZ, La Fleur, Nastia, Nicole Moudaber, Nina Kraviz, Nora En Pure, RÜFÜS DU SOL (DJ set), Sébastien Léger, Themba, Todd Terry, TOKiMONSTA, UMEK, Wax Motif, Waze & Odyssey, Gorgon City

** More artists played.  The initial 24-hour lineup above.

What does the future hold?

So back to the questions... 1. Is this the start of a major shift in the music industry?  2. Will live-streaming events continue to reshape the music scene? 3. How long before VR (Virtual Reality) / AR (Augmented Reality) live-streamed events become commonplace?  4. Will music and musicians benefit from such shifts in 'attendance'?  5. Will new forms of art emerge from the remote presence?  6. Can I still dance with people at a show? 7. Will Music Creation Change? 8. Will Music Die?

I will attempt to answer the following questions and provide my predictions for the future.  I know the only thing I know about the future is that I don't know it... Yet.  I will take the questions in stride and embrace the uncertainty.  My predictions to the above questions are addressed in order.

1. I believe this is the start of a new shift in the music industry.  No longer are we going to movie theaters to enjoy the entertainment but we now stream it from our phones, TVs, and tablets. Concerts, especially the largest artists and acts, will have a majority attendance from a remote location.  Currently, most artists have an 'in-person' audience of 0, so you could argue that it has already happened. However, I would like to believe that live in-person events will come back as strong as they were in 2019.  Another major shift in the music experience is already underway, moving from in-person to a remote live experience.  

2. Live-Streaming Events will continue and will complement the live in-person experience for years to come.  By the year 2030 there will begin to be a noticeable absence of in-person attendees at events.  To compensate for this, events will begin offering 'digital perks' at live in-person events to slow the shift. This could mean AR (Augmented Reality) art installments at live events only available for in-person attendees.  In short, there will be in-person perks offered only to those who attend physically, in an attempt to motivate people to get up off their couch and dance.  

3. This answer hinges on the word "commonplace".  I must start by referencing a great quote.  "The future is already here, it is just not evenly distributed"- William Gibson.  This is a question of human behavior not a question of technology.  According to recent stats (from early 2020) the world has a human population of 7.8 Billion people and 3.8 Billion people are not yet 'online'.  So is the internet commonplace now?  Some might argue yes.  So perhaps commonplace, for the purpose of this article, represents a ~50% market share.  To get back to the question, it is already possible to have a VR conference. Here is an article about a virtual reality conference that the writer attended in 2018. So in short, yes.  VR and AR music events are coming. It is just a matter of time before the equipment evolves and the price point is lowered so that many people can enjoy and attend the digital experience.  Live stream events in the regular 'flat' format will take over first before VR / AR live events.  When the technology finally arrives and is standardized with common formats, like mp4 videos, and can be played on a myriad of devices (Magic Leap, Google Cardboard, Oculus VR, Apple VR, Android VR, etc) live-streaming on a 2D 'flat' screen will be old fashioned, like watching a movie on a Black & White TV.  VR has been like a mirage, with interest peaking in 2016 (according to Google Trends as of the writing of this article).  My estimated time frame for a majority of content creators to start making the switch from 'flat' videos to 'VR' content is 2030.  I predict that a key technology will be the 'flattening' of the content from 'VR' to the current standard formats so the older executives can justify the switch because the content will be 'backward compatible' to run on legacy technology like your brand new smart TV.

4. I certainly hope that musicians benefit from the evolving technology but expect the future to be similar to the past.  When the record labels suffered, from the transition from physical to digital sales, so did musicians.  I think that derivative works will be sorted out using technology and therefore musicians will earn more money from future recreations and remixes of their work. I suspect that the future transition will be another difficult transition for many artists but ultimately, I believe that artists will end up leveraging their global audience and benefit from doing so.

5. I believe that artists will work together to create immersive experiences.  Android Jones, a renowned digital artist has collaborated with top tier electronic musicians, to create 3D visual experiences accompanied by octatonic sound. One of his signature pieces is called Samsakra. I suspect that in the future visual artists will become as important as the audio arts.  Creating a unification of experience will be the result.  Humans are visual creatures and visuals will become more intertwined with music as 3d spaces are created and enjoyed. To take this one step further, there should be a term invented to represent a group of cross-disciplinary artists who perform together.  I imagine a DJ and a visual artist will create works together with one working with pressure waves and the other working with light waves in a harmonic duo.  There is no need to limit to two people and groups of the visual form are just as likely to form. These artists could sell tickets to their virtual experiences so, in theory, they are opening up their presentation to the minds and homes of anyone in the world.

6. As clothes become smart, filled with sensors and our digital worlds begin to merge through VR and AR, I do think that you could dance 'with' someone from the other side of the globe.  5G is purported to bring latency down to under 12 milliseconds.  Some even speculate that that number could be as low as 1 millisecond. With a virtual avatar in a VR / AR environment, is seems feasible as though you could truly dance together without noticing a time delay between your movements.  One critical difference is, you won't "step on anyone toes" or bump into someone, for in the virtual space mass does not actually collide.  However, you may get a haptic response, like a rumble pack on Nintendo 64.

7. Music is already created, recorded and modified digitally.  While analog techniques are likely to be used for an effect, a majority of music is already digitally altered.  This trend will continue and I predict many new digital instruments will be created.  One innovative example created by a small team here in Boulder, Colorado is Specdrums, which enables you to drum on different colors and create different audio frequencies based on your digital program.  Musicians and DAWs (digital audio workstations) will begin to support and create quadraphonic and octatonic sound. What is 16 called? How many angles can sound come from and still be distinct? The bitrates of audio files will likely increase but sample rates will not likely increase much (as the Nyquist sampling rate and Nyquist Frequency dictate) as a higher sample rate is only applicable to frequencies beyond human hearing.

8. No.

It would surprise me if virtual events leveraging VR and AR do not start popping up this decade. With 5G just around the corner, faster connectivity speeds are here to stay.  New Software Languages and Platforms will emerge as tools for artists and businesses to leverage.  When Apple's rumored AR / VR Glasses come out and Googles "Glass" project comes out of hibernation, more devices will hit the market incentivizing business, developers, and content creators to leverage the platform. Consider the fact that a mobile app was not created until the iPhone.  The AR/VR devices are in their infancy (think Motorola's Razor, cool at the time but not that functional compared to modern smartphones) and many different twists and turns are coming. Eventually, when things get standardized, I suspect entertainment and music to be one of the first broadly utilized applications for these new platforms.

Stay Tuned ~

Back to the music!

Some of my favorite sets from ReConnect included:

Griz

Nora En Pure

Rufus Du Sol

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Sonic Bloom 2016

July 12, 2016 By FreioMusic

    Sonic Bloom 2016 has a stacked lineup producing incredible performances too numerous to describe here.  It is safe to say, “SonicBloom has become one of the best electronic music festivals in North America!”  It is worth noting the international talent attracted to the base of the Colorado Rockies to share their vision, talent and art.  To see the full lineup click here.  

     The mindfulness and vision to attract the top talent from across the globe, must be recognized and commended.  The three official stages vibrated with historic house music. This festival is the nexus of the Colorado electronic music scene.  The location is perched atop a beautiful space of land with the foothills of the Rockies to the west and windmill filled fields that go on to meet the eastern horizon.  The festival has succeeded at curating a fertile ground for the world-wide cutting edge of musical maneuvering. 

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      The sound systems are tuned to the valley and can bump through the entire festival grounds.  The security is appropriately staffed and energetically aligned.  The friendly faces can be found throughout the campgrounds, stages, in swinging hammocks, in high fiveing security guards, or the dancing chefs who happily serve nourishing food at reasonable prices.  The ice, in high demand in the hot sun is the only noticeably overpriced product at $1/lb.  The showers run at full capacity as people line up for their chance to clean off that layer of accumulated dust and dirt that is kicked up from all of the movement.  The sunny and beautiful weather also brings with it the dryness enabling the dirt to turn to dust.   The wind is welcome and the stream is an oasis for people looking to take a dip and cool off. 

Photo by M.Morahan © Freio Music 2016
Photo by M.Morahan © Freio Music 2016

     The unofficial or ‘renegade’ stages include tipis and camp sites stacked with speakers and subs.  The colorful crowd and the apex of art have arrived to create an immersive experience that people are willing to dedicate four days to.  Some of the crowd has traveled from across the continent to enjoy the this dreamed up reality. 

      This festival has become a small close nit group of people who are looking out for one another to form a utopic village for just under a week.  The production continues after the last set as everything needs to return to its original order; stages must come down, lasers, lights, projectors, sound & lighting boards, 1,000’s of yards of electric wiring, speakers, microphones, instruments, and framework to name a few.  The thankless work of setting up all of the stages and hauling in the gear was executed with time to spare and enough technology to entertain even the most avid of festival goers. 

      People in their ‘A-Game’ costumes come energetically into the festival entrance in groups.  Everyone has made 10+ new friends and friendly neighbors.   The exchange of ideas, paints, music and visual art permeate the mind of every attendee.  One cannot help but be inspired by something of unique beauty.   


Day in the Life; at Sonic Bloom:

Winds whip down the hills and across the plains. Dust moves in a hurried Eastwood direction. Every walk of electronic culture strolls through the grounds interacting with experiences, sonic vibrations and frequencies across the perceptible spectrum. Cars have been rolling in for over 12 hours at a steady pace filling up the campgrounds. The lucky and wise are nestled among the 6′ shrubbery whose neighbors are bushes and trees. My neighbors on the other hand-made the pilgrimage to SonicBloom from Louisiana. A tightly packed vehicle of four young energetic and enthusiastic beautiful artistic human beings.  As a group, it does not seem possible to gather so many like-minded humans in a place to enjoy and thrive in a collaborative environment.

Friendly staff greet the goers. The hippy chicks and the electric glowers.

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      From the lighting to the sound, from the stages to the camp ground, there are smiles to go around. With the hammocks from Yammocks, and the beats from the peeps the festi is full of fun-loving music geeks.

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      Three stages of stacked sets featuring some of the top electronic acts from around the world.  American electronic music lovers treat this event as an annual pilgrimage to discover and reunite with the music, people and source of creative energy that is the foundation of a festival.  Creativity flows from the ornately decorated stages and sublimely composed tracks that suddenly take hold of the listeners and create a simultaneous bodily expression of enjoyment including but not limited to twerking, spinning, jumping, dropping, exploding or floating.

         The breeze kicked up into a howl for Nightmares on Wax’s last song featuring one of the most recognizable guitar riffs around.  The high energy Bonobo set was filled with masterfully woven bass lines pulsing through the night.  The crowd can be heard cheering for miles. 

Photo by M.Morahan
Photo by M.Morahan

      The late night stages rage like there is no finality to human diurnality. The artists continue to stoke the flaming crowd into the next adventure and from one set to the next. The solitude of night embraced with the warmth of bass and faces.With the evolution of the performances, the pulse of the festival was amplified and magnified by the exemplified beat technique. The audible entertainment abruptly ended, with a slow retreating high pass filter that faded out for 15 min or more notifying the audience that the silent disco was starting. With headphones on, the party rolls on…

The nexus of Colorado electronic music counter-culture is here; at Sonic Bloom, on the beautiful property at Humming Bird Ranch.  

Filed Under: Break Beat, Colorado, Concert Reports, Deep House, Digital Instruments, Drum Pad, Drum-&-Bass, Drums Set (acoustic), Dubstep, EARTH, EDM, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Festival, Genre, Horns, House, Hummingbird Ranch, Instrumental, Instrumentation, Jamtronic, Jamtronica, Keyboard, Language, Laptop, Live Music, Lo-Fi, Loop Pedal, Minimal, New Music, North America, Percussion, Sax, Sonic Bloom, Sonic Bloom 2016, Soul, Stand-Up-Bass, Techno, Trance, Trip Hop, Trumpet, Venues, Violin, Visualizer / Visual Artists, Vocals, World Tagged With: 2016, Bird, Bloom, Colorado, Featured, fest, Festival, freio, fresh, Humming, Music, Music Festival, Ranch, Rye, Sonic, Sonic Bloom Music Festival, sonicbloom, SonicBloom16

Arise 2014 Video

October 14, 2014 By FreioMusic Leave a Comment

Official FreioMusic Arise Festival 2014 Video

Arise Festival 2014 in Loveland, Colorado. Freio Music’s talented team captures the cultural gathering with energy with style. Arise Festival features artists from across the musical spectrum. Share it. Enjoy it. See you next year!

Credits:
Produced by Freio Music

Directed by Joe Morahan & Daniel “Buddy” Thomas

DP by Daniel “Buddy” Thomas
Editing by Daniel “Buddy” Thomas

Time-Lapse Photography by
Melissa Harrison, Isaiah ‘Scott’ Brown, & Michael Morahan

Music by
Polish Ambassador

Arise Festival At SunRise Ranch

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Arise Festival 2014 in Photos

September 7, 2014 By Sober_Raver Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Abstract, Acoustic, AfroBeat, Ambient, Arise 2014, Banjo, Bass Guitar, Bluegrass, Cello, Colorado, Concert Reports, Digital Instruments, Djembe, Drum Pad, Drums Set (acoustic), EARTH, Easy Listening, EDM, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Experimental, Festival, Folk, Free Style, Funk, Genre, Glitch-hop, Guitar, Gypsy, Hip Hop, Horns, House, Instrumental, Instrumentation, Jamtronic, Jazz, Keyboard, Language, Laptop, Latin Jazz, Live Music, Loop Pedal, Loveland, Mandolin, New Music, North America, Percussion, Political, Reggae, Sax, Slide Guitar, Spanish, Stand-Up-Bass, Sunrise Ranch, Techno, Trance, Tribal, Trip Hop, Trumpet, USA, Venues, Violin, Visualizer / Visual Artists, Vocals, World, xylophone Tagged With: 2014, Arise, arise 2014, Arise Festival 2014, Arise Photos 2014, Co, Colorado, Festival, FreioMusic, FreioMusic Photography, fresh, Infrared, Loveland, Photo, Photography, Photos, SunRise Ranch

Arise 2014

August 24, 2014 By FreioMusic Leave a Comment

The 2nd Annual Arise Music Festival:

By the time the gates were finally open, the energy began to pick up.  With the people came art, laughter, color and flavor.  As the camping area began to fill up it was clear that this year was much larger than last.  The same beautiful location shared by thousands of new attendees.  With ‘dualing stages’, two stages set up right next to each other intended to minimize musical downtime, the music continued and the crowd stayed close.  The electronic stage, Souls Rising, had a stacked lineup of talented young and established acts.  The energy by Souls Rising stage kept a steady group of dancing bass faces content.  While the Souls Rising stage was considerably smaller than the other two main musical stages, it was the destination for many festival goers and it delivered.  The stage and surrounding area was decorated ornately from the lasers beaming around the ground to the CDs hanging reflectively from the trees.

 

Photo taken by Molly ‘Mojo’ Buckiewicz

 

This year’s attendance appeared to be at least double, possibly triple, the previous year’s attendance.  The festival was prepared and there was ample water, food, and portable toilets.   The vender village was one of a kind with an array of smells coming from the food stands, and an array of colors coming from the vender stands.  Artists are now migrating to Arise festival from all over the USA, contributing to its colorful diversity.  Arise is Colorado’s best and most diverse music festival.

Once again SunRise Ranch played the role of the gracious host and one can only hope that they received the support and recognition they deserve for sharing the incredible valley to all of us who attend.  With out the support of SunRise Ranch this event would not be possible in its current form.  The artists also deserve a huge shoutout for making the experience what it was, and sharing ideas, thoughts, and emotions through their sound and visions. Equally the fan, the festival goer, the music lover, the ‘escape the 9-5 artist’, anyone who attended a festival, deserves a huge thank you.  With out listeners how could music work?  It is you who make this possible and for that all of us here at FreioMusic, Thank You!

 

 

 

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Arise Festival 2014 – Sneak Peak

May 25, 2014 By FreioMusic Leave a Comment

Arise – Colorado’s most Diverse Festival

Nahko and Medicine For the People - Photo by M. Morahan
Nahko and Medicine For the People – Photo by M. Morahan

Arise Festival 2014
Dates: August 8th, 9th, and 10th
Location: Sunrise Ranch – Loveland, Colorado
Tickets: Buy Here

The Arise Festival in Loveland, Colorado resides on the beautiful 1,000 acre SunRise Ranch nestled in an open canyon. The 2nd Annual ARISE Music Festival will kick off this August 8-10 and will showcase a stellar lineup including Beats Antique, Galactic with special guests Chali2Na and Lyrics Born, Grateful Grass featuring Keller Williams, Billy Nershi (String Cheese Incident) and Reed Mathis, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Polish Ambassador, Groundation, Tribal Seeds, Nahko and Medicine for the People, The Everyone Orchestra featuring Steve Kimock and the return of Quixotic, among many other favorite performers.

The diverse musical lineup draws a diverse crowd and all are well catered to. This is an event for all ages. From the young to the old, Arise festival is for you. A truly spiritual and holy place for some, with yoga and workshops. For others the draw is the late night music that rages through the campground at night. The family camping, designed to enable sleep and a playful place for those little ones, is a plus for families. In fact, kids 12 and under get in free! Everyone has their place to be, have fun, and escape the daily grind of city and work life.

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For those of you familiar with festivals, the camping can make or break the festival experience. Luckily Arise is located in a mystical valley in lovely Loveland, Colorado. With spectacular performers such as Quixotic, the traditional artistic limits are broken. Influential and environmentally conscious musical acts help preserve the landscape and the pristine SunriseRanch for future generations. For those 21+ micro-breweries will be in attendance and will certainly refresh a parched palate.

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For a taste of the adventure to come, listen to FreioMusic’s curated playlist:

Quixotic Fusion, an incredible auditory and visual experience. Check out the video below:

Are you ready for 2014 Arise Festival? Buy tickets here

What to bring?
– good attitude
– friends
– fun and comfortable attire
– your tickets!! (cannot be over emphasized)
– food + water bottle (you can by food or drinks at the festival)
– tent + sleeping bag + pillow
– sunscreen + shade
– trash bags (pack it in pack it out)
– ear plugs
– warm and cold weather clothes
– a rain jacket
– a few dollars to buy some apparel
– positive energy
– an open mind
– a smiling face
– yourself (go on now, get your ticket! We’ll meet you there)

Directions

From Denver:

From Frisco:

From Cheyenne:

Filed Under: Acoustic, AfroBeat, Bluegrass, Blues, Drum-&-Bass, EARTH, Easy Listening, Electronic, Electronica, English (US), Festival, Genre, Live Music, New Music, Singer-Songwriter, Slide Guitar, Stand-Up-Bass, Visualizer / Visual Artists, Vocals Tagged With: #QUIXOTIC, #THE POLISH AMBASSADOR, Beats Antique, Billy Nershi, Chali2Na, Galactic, Grateful Grass, Groundation, Keller Williams, Lyrics Born, MFTP, Nahko, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Nahko and MFTP, Reed Mathis, Steve Kimock, String Cheese Incicent, The Everyone Orchestra, The Infamous Stringdusters, Tribal Seeds

SnowBallin’ 2014

March 21, 2014 By FreioMusic Leave a Comment

Interested in hearing about what is becoming one of the freshest and most unique festivals in the music industry taking place in the spring snow out in beautiful Colorado?

SnowBall, taking place April 4th-6th in Denver, CO, is definitely a music festival that is truly something different. The festival is being held at an exciting new venue this year, Sports Authority Field in Mile High Stadium. The new venue will provide a wide open space for attendees to interact, explore, dance, and of course, get weird. The SnowBall Stage, which is the main stage, will be outdoors and may provide the opportunity for attendees to put their dance moves on display on a snow covered dance floor. So if you plan on attending, please be safe and be prepared for the cold. The SnowBall Stage will also have a Big Air area beside it where extreme athletes will be performing tricks to tantalize your eyes while your ears are being entertained by bumping beats. Some of the most well known artists will grace the SnowBall stage with their presence. On Friday, be sure to catch the melodies of Jimkata, the funky beats of The Floozies, and then let Knife Party shake you with some heavy bass to close out the first night. On Saturday, the highlights include local 3-piece electronic hydro-funk sensations SunSquabi, funky fresh four piece livetronic group STRFKR, and the one and only Derek Vincent Smith, better known as Pretty Lights, playing his soulful tunes right where his original roots began. Then on Sunday, Chali2Na from Jurassic 5 brings some fresh hip-hop to the stage along with House of Vibe, Busta Rhymes brings an original rap set that you could only get from Busta himself, all before Griz closes out the festival with a funk filled set of jazzy electronic beats that will have you grooving with all of the energy that’s left in the tank.

The other three stages are all in heated tents around the stadium and will each provide their own distinct atmospheres once you are inside. The Groove Tent will feature a variety of music throughout the weekend with the highlights being the grimy electronic beats of Mimosa, the all original tunes of Wave Racer, some funky fresh trap from Lunice, a high energy electro house combined with drumstep set from Kill The Noise, and PLM Party, the not to miss set of the weekend featuring Pretty Lights, Michal Menert, Paul Basic, Supervision, Eliot Lipp, and many more artists from the Pretty Lights Music record label. I personally cannot wait to see what all of these amazing producers co-create up on stage together; the possibilities are endless.

The Ballroom Stage will feature artists who make their craft through either their skills on an instrument or through the sounds of their voice. This stage will provide very different sounds than the others so be sure to make it over there if you are into artists who have their own specific individual sound. Eminence Ensemble will trance you into their one of a kind flow as they rift it on their instruments. Afroman will bring you back in time with his old school style and with jams like “Palmdale”, “When I Got High”, and other 90’s classics. Or be entertained with original electronic acts like Flash/Lights, Trippy Turtle, Twin Shadow, Chrome Sparks, or Rufus Du Sol. No matter who you catch at the Ballroom Stage, you will be sure to be entertained.

The Heat Hut will be where you want to go if you are looking to get down and dirty to some electro house and deep house. This tent will be bumping the beats that will keep your feet moving all weekend long. The highlighting artists whom are playing at the Heat Hut are: Bixel Boys, Option4 and JustinJay on Friday; Graff, J.Phlip, and MK on Saturday; and then Need & Necessity, Maxxi Soundsytem, and Andhim to close out the stage on Sunday. So be sure to groove in the Heat Hut if you’re wanting some non-stop electro house beats.

SnowBall will also feature live ice sculptures by trained artists, free water refill stations, a Vendor Village filled with tons of goodies from artisans, a Merchandise Booth to pick up SnowBall gear, food options from local restaurants to food trucks, drink options from sodas and juices to beers and cocktails, and also late night after parties to keep you going and entertained throughout the weekend. Check out the full lineup breakdown and daily schedules. Get your SnowBall tickets now because prices will go up! Advance 3-day GA and VIP tickets are still available for SnowBall here ; advance single day SnowBall tickets here.

Tantalize your ears with a taste of the music to come this year at SnowBall…

FreioMusic SnowBall 2014 Soundcloud Mix

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David ‘Dino’ Durkin

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Immerse Yourself – Arise Festival – Loveland, CO

June 15, 2013 By Sober_Raver Leave a Comment

ARISE FESTIVAL 2013

“The music is like the fire …. and we all gather around it to warm our souls”

~ Paul Bassis, Producer of ARISE ~

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A new festival has emerged onto the Colorado scene this summer. Backdropped by the serene beauty of the Rocky Mountains, Arise Festival has set its sights on being the very essence of a festival –  co-creation, music, art, yoga, and community. Sunrise Ranch, an hour north of Denver, will provide the magical space for festival goers to explore and re-connect with nature and one another. The atmosphere is looking to come together seamlessly, complete with Hemp Village, Kids Village, Organic Food and Beverage Village, and hey, my fellow beer lovers, a Craft Beer and Wine Village!

The festival will also feature a selection of independent films including – Bidder 70, Chasing Water, Arise, and The Bloom. If that doesn’t expand your mind enough – check out the healing space, Temple of the Heart, on site. It will encompass activities like yoga, kirtan, meditation, and a healers tent to completely rejuvinate you- mind, body, and soul.

THE BASICS

WHAT TO BRING: face paint, headlamp, re-fillable water bottle, warm clothes for the CO nights

Festival Info

Complete Lineup 

Camping & Lodging

Aside from the perks… the music lineup is stacking up quite nicely to create an incredibly diverse world sound to fill up those Colorado mountains.

So who is playing you ask?

Freio Favorites:

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We are very excited to be apart of this melding of art and community. Not convinced yet? Check out the music below…

But just you wait… the complete lineup so far includes:

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STAY TUNED FOR THE ARISE FESTIVAL CONTEST

FOR 2 FREE TICKETS!!

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It’s All About Being You At Sonic Bloom

May 28, 2013 By FreioMusic Leave a Comment

Sonic Bloom is a festival created to help us realize our individual and group potential. It inspires us all to be aware that we all work together to co-create this reality. It is about realizing your full potential and striving to create whatever reality you choose to direct your intentions. I feel like the intentions of Sonic Bloom’s creators are to bring beautiful people together in a wonderful place filled with inspiring music. I feel they will easily succeed in this goal, especially because the festival is stacked with over 100 talented artists each expressing their own vibrations of life through music. I was blessed enough to be able to attend Sonic Bloom last year. It was my first time ever in Colorado and I fell in love with the area and the amazing people that attended the festival. I traveled for over 22 hours by car last year and never regretted a second. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a festival that is worth the trip and definitely should not be missed.

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They just announced these additional artists: Samples, Omega, Miraja, Soulacybin, Mikey Thunder, Gken-E, The Digital Connection, Cloud-D, J.WAIL, Cualli, Late Night Radio, Mouseterious, Nunchuck, Kruza Kid, Verdarluz, White Robot, Subliminal, Lux Moderna, Damnesia-Vu, G.O.A., Buddha Bomb, Chemdawgz, Kyma Muse, Ginger Perry, and Namaslay.

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If you would like more information on Sonic Bloom:
SONIC BLOOM FULL EVENT EXPERIENCE
SONIC BLOOM FACEBOOK
SONIC BLOOM TWITTER

And here is a playlist previewing the artists playing this year that should keep you entertained until Sonic Bloom 2013:
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Human Nature – LineUp & Ekim

July 2, 2012 By Michael 1 Comment

Explore thy Environment

 

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The Nature Stage –

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A mystery set in the woods at nature stage, by Ekim. With the backdrop of an incredible Oregonian rainforest scene (see above Picture).  Ekim could throw it down to amuse and confuse the crowd simultaneously.  Ekim also knew how to change it up, and he would do so at will, not according to the set list but by what people were getting down to.  With heavy wobbles and Super-Sound speakers taller than the average taller person.  The variety of sound was great and the noise selection was very thought-out and carefully placed in space.

His style was new to me but I almost instantly became a fan and had to dance.   Please contact us on facebook or twitter or e-mail us if you can help us find Ekim’s Music, e-mail, or profile Anywhere, can someone help us!?  Ekim from Human Nature, hello? Where are you on the internet, come find us!

Line Up:

Prindel Creek Stage (Live)

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Reactor Stage (main)

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We posted some recordings from the concert throughout the event.   Stay Tuned~ next (Tribal Spectrum)

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