Day two and another hot morning. I was up and out of the
tent right as I awoke. We all did our basic daily routine, eat, get dressed,
shower, all that jazz. Today was when the real fun started. The first day the
music doesn’t start until four, but today, it starts at one in the afternoon.
Looking back on it, I wish I went and did yoga at noon at Trip-O-Lee, but I
guess I’ll have to do that next year. Everyone at camp was still acclimating to
everything. We were all tired and there weren’t any big names that we wanted to
hear that were early in the day so we all took our time before heading into the
venue for the day. It’s about a ten minute walk from camp to the entrance. A
couple of our group members wanted to go see Everyone Orchestra at the stage
Jubilee. Jubilee is basically, a giant, pink circus tent that you walk into and
there is a decent sized stage in the back. Everyone Orchestra is a group made
up of musicians from all different groups. Just a hodgepodge of different
instruments. It was pretty interesting to listen to. So, before I was really
into EDM music, like I am now, I listened to rap. G-Eazy was performing after
Everyone Orchestra so I was really interested in seeing him perform. He was
incredible!
You could feel the different vibe of the crowd compared to all of
the EDM groups. Everyone was just jamming out to some rap for once. He really
interacted with the crowd. “I want to be here for the whole week, not just
today!” he said mid performance. After G-Eazy, there wasn’t anyone big that I wanted
to see for a while so I ventured through the forest for a while with my
brother. There is some trippy stuff in the forest. Clouds that flash and change
colors, a dragon statue made out of CD’s that emits smoke, a ten by ten square
of LED light poles that change color and do different effects. You can get lost
in there just looking at everything. There are also two stages in there as
well. So after some time, I wanted to go back to camp to change into something
warmer because it was almost nine at night and the temp had spiked downward.
When we got back into the venue we waited around and met up with the rest of
the group. Some of them wanted to go see the band Lettuce and Lotus over at
Sherwood Court, but those artists are more jam bands and I’m not that into that
type of music. Instead a couple of us went and saw the one artist I’ve been
looking forward to, Skrillex. He killed it! I still watch the video of his set
on YouTube.
Apparently the first time Skrillex performed at Electric Forest he
got so messed up that he couldn’t go on stage, so I guess this year he wanted
to make up for it. I got pretty lucky. So many flashing lights and fog machines
and confetti and fireworks. Oh my gosh was his set amazing! After my mind was completely
blown, my brother headed back to camp because he was pretty tired and I went to
Trip-O-Lee to see Flux Pavilion. Flux doesn’t have as much bass as Skrillex,
but his drops are ridiculous.
I recorded my favorite song on my phone, but I
too got really tired like my brother and ended up leaving before the set was
over and I went back to camp and went to bed “early” a.k.a. three in the
morning.
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