When you monitor seasons through the rave, then you understand one of many clearest indicators of spring is CRSSD, the San Diego dance competition that’s gone down yearly (minus the pandemic years) since 2015.
The newest iteration of the occasion, which occurred March 4-5 in its longstanding location at San Diego’s Bayfront Park, was not only a harbinger of summer time but in addition a sonic heatwave, with a lineup that included headliners ODESZA, Polo & Pan, Kavinsky, Bedouin, Maya Jane Coles, Deborah de Luca and Umek. (One other version of CRSSD may even occur this summer time, with the occasion at all times taking place bi-annually.)
Drawing a crowd of roughly 15,000, this month’s fest additionally featured a powerful crew of home and techno heavy-hitters from world wide, together with these 4 acts whose units might be relived (or heard for the very first time) solely right here.
AMÉMÉ
The West African born, Brooklyn-based producer introduced a tribal home temper along with his 90-minute set, which bought progressively steamier through remixed Haitian folks music courtesy of KEENE, layers of hand percussion, an edit of his personal “Kaleta,” deep cuts from New York producer Straightforward Tyger and way more.
Jackmaster
Scotland’s Jackmaster was characteristically cool, taking part in intermittently onerous, heavy, spare and glossy techno from a flurry of underground acts together with Von, Joshua Puerta and Hezziane and ending his set with an impromptu b2b2b2b of friends alongside Skream, Seth Troxler and Ben Sterling.
House 92 X POPOF current: Turbulences
Rising French star House 92 went b2b with French vet POPOF for a pummeling techno set that grabs you by the proverbial collar and takes you alongside for the journey. The set wastes no time, launching with Adrenochrom’s glorious “House Invader Defcon Three,” mixing in House 92’s collab with Oliver Heldens’ HI-LO alias and staying darkly and deliciously relentless for the total 90 minutes.
Tom & Collins
The Mexican duo’s set spanned kinds and origins of home music, crossing Latin rhythms with the extraordinarily vibey “Booty” from Canary Islands-based Chantrero and the pair’s very personal and really fireplace singles “Se Va,” “Hagüe,” together with a number of equally glorious tracks which might be to this point un-Shazamable.
