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Lee Foss - EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon
A Lee Foss Virtual Rave-A-Thon set from the lockdown era—a time when we pretended our living room strobe light was just as good. Foss, ever the purveyor of quirky, vocal-heavy tech house, delivered a compact, 20-track shot of serotonin directly to our home systems. The vibe is playful, slightly trippy, and impeccably groovy, like the best kind of afterparty where the weird records come out. Technically, it’s a masterclass in peak-time tech house, holding a steady average of 125.7 BPM and harmonically navigating between the bright 12A and the deeper, more melancholic 5A.
The energy is beautifully balanced between a funky low-end (0.45) and rich, chord-and-vocal laden mids (0.52), with just a whisper of high-end (0.03) for clarity. It's a sound built for body movement and subtle head-nods. The track selection is quintessential Foss, blending the percussive and the melodic. He kicks off with the raw, jacking energy of 'Bang (Live)' before sliding into the deep, atmospheric swirl of Christian Thomas's 'Wake (Far Out Remix)'.
We get the quirky, off-kilter funk of CJ Peeton's 'Weird Nature' and the pure, driving loop science of Veerus's 'Phase'. A later highlight is, of course, dropping his own Hot Creations bomb 'Beauty Sleep' by John Summit in its extended form. The journey is a expertly paced ride, opening with the explosive 'Bang', finding a hypnotic middle ground with the deep cut 'Verkro' by Andre Salmon, and closing on the stark, futuristic rhythm of Distant Sun's 'Machine lernt'—a surprisingly cerebral end to a funky trip.