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REPORTING LIVE: TOGETHER 2012 PART IIIPosted on April 30, 2012 by LAUREN METTER Email
Part III of the Together 2012 series is here! three weeks and lots of sleep later.
???Somebody asked me this questionearlier,???
RJD2 says at the Dise on the last night of Together 2012 (after taking off his CommissionerCrotchbuttons outfit: a welder???s mask and jumpsuit that he wore while playing the MPChanging from his belt).
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???And it got me thinking??????I watch him as he pauses for a second to look out onto the crowd, struck by the magic of histhoughtful expression in the silence, his three turntables not moving for the first time since hestarted playing.
???This really is the honest truth, I can???tlook back on the club scene and think of oneshow that wasn???t the shit in Boston.???
The crowd erupts w ith cheers and applause. I look left and right, not a single face in thepacked Dise is unsmiling.
???I don???t know shit about the Red Soxor baseball or sports, but it???s like you
guys are batting at .598,??? he says,laughing.
Holy shit, I asked him that question!!! I think to myself as he mans his mixers, looks to his livedrummer, and continues w ith a whimsical yet coordinated masterpiece of a set. At one pointhe uses the feet of a palm-sized Mario action figure to play beats on his MPC beneath a Tetrissample, his hands and Mario blown up and projected on the giant screen behind the stage.
Fuck sports, this is the best part of Boston, I think. Games played w ith beats and samples.Everything from Tetris to the guitar riff in Betty Wrights Secretary for Ghost Writer ??? bits andpieces morphed and combined that lead to something better and new, to new musicaldiscoveries. The sample at the beginning of this track is so epic:
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One of the most talented technical producers, playing five minutes away from my house, w ith aMario figurine, telling us that he doesn???t like to take himself too seriously.
This EDM game in Boston is the best thing I???ve ever been a part of, and what RJ said aboutthe crowds in Boston before the show,
That???s a rarity, honestly. I can???t saythat for most cities,
stays w ith me throughout the night.
RJD2 Ghostwriter by Carl-ito
???a night that doesn???t end until after 2am. Until the lights go on on a Sunday night after??after Voices of Black at Middlesex Lounge, what I now w ill always call Cambridge???s ???musicbox.??? It???s the seventh day of a weeklong festival during which we???ve all gone to somany shows that we???ve hardly gotten enough sleep and have repeatedly declared thatwe???ve completely lost our minds???
and yet, everyone arrives dancing.
It strikes me again: there???s something special about these people, about this scene.
Okay. You???ve got festivals like Electric Zoo that cram 80,000 kids onto a remote island, farremoved from the city of New York. You???ve got 3,000 kids in the middle of the woods at TheBig Up, and 20,000 filling the deserted, enchanted forests of Michigan at ElectricForest/Rothbury.
Then you???ve got the 20,000 people whowere part of Together Festival in Boston.
A DJ behind turntables is spinning in a w indow on Mass Ave. All of the heads inside are movingwith hers, in sync.
What is that in there?What???s that giant glow ing art sculpture that remains throughout the night as everyoneinside disperses to shows all over the city, glow ing bright to remind people that we are herefor the week and that we are not asleep??? we are dancing.
I have been to my share of epic musicfestivals. But they were nothing like this.
Our EDM scene is special. With art andmusic working hand-in-hand, this festivaltransforms an entire city from right within
it.The people who spent every waking
The people who spent every wakingmoment during those two weeks, andmonths of their time before and after thisfestival???the people responsible for theexplosion of electronic music hittingCambridge and Boston almost every nightat 20+ venues???they take what we haveto work w ith in these cities and make amusic festival happen right in the middle ofit.
Those who can???t sit in an office chair forvery long w ithout going nuts transform ourhome into a factory of creativity for a week,bringing together people from all sides,anyone w ith a new idea, new music ???people who connect art, technology andsound in such a way that otherworldlythings are born (photos Camoland // Amalgamate) ???
creatives who seize this one week everyyear to come together and invite all of us
into this other world.
DJ Mr. McNeill at The Get Together
In two random buildings on Mass Ave.,while normal people walk by on their way towork, these people dare to live differently.
The Get Together, 541 Mass Ave.
And the people stop and they stare and they
And the people stop and they stare and theywant to be a part of it, even if they don???t
know what it is.
I sell them for $5 or less, unless its like, arare album. Last year I made over $400 on
dubstep alone.-Dan the Record Man (pictured above)
Boxes and boxes of records labeled Tranceand Techno, feather earrings, and printedtees line Shakedown St. as usual, but it???s inside a large, unused building right onMass Ave., the columns inside fresh w ithgreen paint. This is The Get Together. LocalDJs do not stop spinning at the TogetherCenter two doors down for two weeks, andanyone can go and lay on a Yogibo and chillout to some dope music whenever theycrave an hour???s escape.?? DubSpotteaches kids how to do that, how toproduce music, on a daily basis. Everysingle venue that has a weekly dance nightis given 2-3 major shows. People like mecannot decide which ones to pick.
A festival thatbrings UV-reactive
chess, the Sonotron,and 30+ DJs and
producers, those ofinternational
acclaim but also a local showcase of talentthat 20,000 people now notice
Left: UV-reactive Chess // Right: The Sonotron
musicians of all sorts of varying styles andtalents, a week devoted all to them??? and
all to us, so that we are all somewheredancing late into every night.
Detroit house wonder Kyle Hall (Wild Oats) b2b DJ Fens (Banana Peel Records, Boston) at TogetherVIP party, Naga Cambridge.
Almost every artist I interviewed (Adam Deitch, Nero, Starkey, RJD2, Modeselektor) said theysee an extra fire, this special something, in Boston crowds. We have so much energy, I feelit???s pent up inside of us and for one week we had an outlet, a release.
House of Blues sold out w ith young kidsgetting into Nero. Gramatik and BreakScience crowds were also young and rowdy??? the kids are starting to feel the beat.The rest is a toss up, a w in-w in-w insituation: go see a dubstep superstar likeMala at Good Life or Joe Nice at Think Tank.Or w itness a Drum and Bass legend,Photek. Go see producers who arerecording slamming doors and the tinkle ofa drip of water and making music w iththose sounds???the Berklee-trainedmusicians of the JASS live collective, likeTime Wharp or Oneohtrix Point Never atthe Middle East. Or go listen to the stuffthat???s your shit, like for me, ToddEdwards at Heart Throb, Falty DL, andWheez-ie.
When Wheez-ie was at Brighton Music Hall,all around me, people were tappingfriends??? shoulders, screaming, ???Who???s that???? Realize that you arediscovering what you like and whatproducers get you moving.
It???s the best kind of festival, because ittruly is the underground brought to light,the light going on w ith one after anothermusical discovery, as you come together w ith all of the people in Boston who are like you andgathered on a dance floor under flashing lights
??? late into the night ??? still dancing.It hits me again around 3pm on the last day. When I finally wake up after the Get Togetherand Photek, after a week???s worth of shows, and look in the mirror.
There are literally huge bags under my eyes and eyeliner smudged all over my face. Mybracelets are a mix of various wristbands; my tattoos are hand-stamps. My hair is plastereddramatically to one side of my head from the sweaty dance party at Machine last night. Butinstead of feeling guilty or ashamed after a night of too much whiskey ??? I die of laughter.
This has been the best fucking week EVER.Ten minutes later, involuntarily, I???m on my way to the Together Center because I do notwant it to end.
I crash into a Yogibo next to Joannaand Charles. We???re all on the vergeof comas and insanity. But Wheez-ieand Prism are in the mix. And theysound better than ever, because I???m laying next to all of my friends andthere???s this unspokenunderstanding between everyone inthe room.
1)???? Thank Godfor Wheez-ie right
now.
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2)???? Thank Godfor these Yogibo
Bags.
3)???? Give methree straight
days of sleep andthen we???ll startplanning for next
year.
Until then, thanks Together 2012 forchanging my life and bringing the music and
the madness to Boston.There is only more music to come.
Chadley The Love (Compilation 2012) by Together Boston
SPECIAL THANKS TO NICK MINIERI, BEANTOWNBOOGIEDOWN.COM // MICK MURRAY, IN YOURFACE PHOTO // AND SYDNEY LINDBERG, UNREGULAR RADIO .. FOR ALL THE DOPE PHOTOS FROMTOGETHER 2012!!
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