By Tyler Fassnacht

Now I don’t have the most experience with electronica/DJ concerts, so Daedelus’ show at the Majestic was somewhat of a new experience. I had gotten his album “Denies the Day’s Demise” and I was a huge fan, so him along with Nosaj Thing sounded like a pretty great show.

The show got off to a little bit of a rocky start. I was under the impression it was going to start at nine, however the first band, Jogger, came out a little after ten. Whether this was some sort of error on my part in misreading the time, or they just started really damn late, I am still not sure. Since it was a Monday night, I was not looking forward to a late night, but I ended up getting one anyway.

Jogger was made up of two guys, one played guitar, the other DJed and they both sang. The music turned out to be atmospheric, noisy electronica music, which sounded like I might have enjoyed it a little more coming through my headphones at home.

Up next was Nosaj Thing, who I actually was familiar with. He played a non-stop flow of music, transitioning everything into each other so as not to have a moment of silence where people couldn’t dance. His glitchy beats and cool samples were really good for the first thirty minutes, but he went on for about an hour. Towards the end he started remixing hip-hop songs, which I thought his set could have done without.

By the time Daedelus came out, it was midnight. Fancily dressed, and acting very cordial, he came off sounding polite, which was something that few people did at the venue, as the majority of people drunkenly danced into everyone else’s space. Daedelus opened with a remix of Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka, which transitioned into a mix of Only You by Portishead. After that though, I lost recognition of what he was doing. I was a big fan of a lot of Daedelus’ songs on his records, but I think I forgot that his main duty was DJ, so he mostly just played repetitive, bass-heavy electronica so that everyone could dance. He was quite good at what he was doing, but around twelve thirty I was just too tired to stay.

All the musicians at the show performed well and I liked a lot of the music that was played, but I think the combination of it being a Monday night, it starting so late, the crowd being wasted and generally pretty weird (I am talking a lot of uncomfortable touching) and me not really being in the biggest dancing mood, made the show a little bit of a let down. Personally, I think raves should be kept to the weekends.

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