Its festival time on Cape Town’s musical calendar with the likes of Rocking the Daisies, Synergy and Equinox providing a celebratory welcome to the beautiful mother-cities summer party loving.
The festival season very much kicks off toward the end of September with Earthdance, the world’s largest synchronised dance music festival. Now its no secret that Earthdance has a very deep esoteric, hippie atmosphere about it and a strong focus on psychedelic trance. This is what really drives the festival and for anyone whose been to a psy-trance outdoor party in Cape Town will know that they’re big and bashing with thousands of revellers stomping for days to exhilarating, mind-warping, if somewhat repetitive, 140 bpm trance.
But over the years Earthdance has done well to include two other dancefloors providing alternative music, from live bands to DJs. This year the Music Box Stage was curated by the Red Bull Studio in conjunction with Arcade and sSHADOWORKSs and in many ways it served as a brilliant taste of what to expect at Rocking the Daisies.
Friday night was hosted by Arcade, featuring the likes of Bruce Willis?, BTEAM and Niskerone thrashing the dancefloor so hard that security had to hold back the crowd from bum-rushing the stage.
Saturday in the daytime served as a showcase for many of the live acts who've recorded at the studio such as 7ft. Soundsystem, the Plastics and Machineri who got people's feet tapping as they either licked their wounds from the night before or readied themselves for the ensuing electronic madness.
Saturday night featured some of the countries best live electronica acts such as Krushed and Sorted, Mix n Blend, Twelv and Thesis and Sibot until the larger than life Hazer came on to destroy the crowd with his signature electro-metal sonics followed by the deep, insistent techno of Anthea and T Minus and Monique.
Sunday mellowed things out with dubsteppers Funafuji and Fletcher alongside the live musical richness of the Little Kings and Lonesome Dave.
If the Music Box Stage was anything to go by, then its an indication that the Red Bull Studio Live Stage at Rocking the Daisies 2010 is going to be one for the books. Just need to recover from Earthdance in time.
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