Vini Vici
for EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon (May 2020)
You have to laugh at the psytrance lads doing aggressive geometric hand dances at a webcam, completely sober in their living rooms but looking absolutely unhinged. This is the peak of lockdown rave culture, where people were wearing bucket hats indoors and flashing phone torches during breakdowns just to feel something. The digital mainstage is a chaotic blur of CGI lasers and virtual fireworks trying desperately to mimic the desert madness. For those analysing the Vini Vici EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon tracklist, this Vini Vici live set delivers exactly the kind of relentless drive you would expect.
Pushing a solid 133.1 average BPM, the mix heavily utilises 12A and 4A Camelot keys to keep the harmonic tension peaking. The mixing is unapologetically massive, relying on long, sweeping buildups and earth-shattering triplet basslines typical of modern Techno and psy-trance. The crate digging is aimed squarely at maximum festival impact, pulling out absolute crowd-pleasers. Smashing Armin van Buuren's 'Blah Blah Blah' into the mix is pure brain-rattling fun, while the Vini Vici remix of Hilight Tribe's 'Free Tibet' brings that trademark spiritual sledgehammer.
The journey blasts off immediately with the opening track 'Unknown - Unknown', setting a frantic pace from minute one. It peaks with huge vocal anthems and finally wraps up the livestream with the closing track, 'Get in Trouble (So What)' by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike & Vini Vici. Absolute scenes.