Z-Trip - EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon
There is always that one guy at a digital festival who decides what the kids really need between the laser shows and the rolling basslines is some furious, old-school turntablism. You are sat in your kitchen trying to have a transcendent techno moment, and suddenly you are being aggressively scratched at by a man who refuses to let the 90s die. Honestly, you have to respect the sheer audacity of it. The visual setup is peak lockdown madness—flashing LEDs and green-screened crowd noise beamed straight into your bewildered retinas.
Analyzing the Z-Trip EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon tracklist is like trying to read the diary of a madman. The BPM is utterly unhinged, swinging wildly from 102 all the way to 176, averaging around 138.6. He largely sticks to 3B and 12A keys to somehow glue this chaotic Techno and breaks hybrid together, employing lightning-fast cuts rather than smooth blends. The crate digging is absolutely legendary, if completely psychotic.
Where else are you going to hear Groove Armada's "Superstylin'" smashed into Wu-Tang Clan's "C.R.E.A.M.", before somehow pivoting into Linkin Park's "Numb"? It is completely unhinged shithousery. The journey of this Z-Trip live set is a rollercoaster. Launching with an aggressive "Unknown" opening track, he chops and scratches his way through a manic peak before landing on the closing track, Polymath's "Alpha Waves". A mad, brilliant mess of a set.