ACL Day 2 Highlight: Bassnectar and Big Gigantic

Big Gigantic tore it up. Even though they were just an opener for Bassnectar they killed it. Not alot of lights or fancy shit, just plain good music and good DJ-ing. I mean the guy played the Sax while dropping the bass hard. And another guy was banging on his drums and dropping it. Plus with the rain it was just a good show. They definantly knew how to entertain a crowd. All the songs were perfect and what seperates a good DJ from a bad DJ is that every drop can't be the same thing. It has to have different tempos and pitches somewhat and they did that for sure. Definantly one of the most fun concerts I've ever been to.


For Bassnectar, all I have to say is wow. That was my reaction after seeing this dude tearing the bass up. It was the first concert I was actually nervous for. Because before he went on, when they were setting up, the roadies brought out these big huge boxes on each side of the stage rapped in a trash bag. And I was thinking "Hmm how odd?" And 5 minutes before he went on, they unrapped them and it was sub woofer, on top of sub woofer, on sub woofer, on sub woofer. 2 stacks of 4 sub woofers on each side of the stage. I was legit afraid I might go deaf. Then I saw security handing out ear plugs to the front row people. That's when I really started to worry. Plus the crowd was swaying and people were having panic attacks it was a nightmare.
But when he started with that "Intergallactic" remix by the Beastie Boys all I thought was "OH SHIT! OH SHIT! OH SHIT!" then he dropped the bass and the whole crowd went nuts. It was bananas. People crowd surfing, girls on shoulders, I'm pretty sure I saw a guy get carried out on a streachter.
What I liked most about the concert was that he didn't pull a Skrillex and just pull out a computer and push the spacebar. He scrathed, dubbed, mashed up, and dropped all together. I could tell because the screen showed what he was doing. First off, Bassnectar is one of the fore-fathers of dubstep, and 2nd, he's a damn good DJ as a whole.
I would have to see it was the most electrifying concert I've been to. It was insane. And how you could tell he was freestyling it all was that the drops and beats to his songs on record sounded different than live. He was just plain awesome.

Here is my favorite Big Gigantic song "Notorious Thugs Remix"

Here is my favorite Bassnectar song "Wildstyle Method"