Electric Forest Festival • Rothbury, Michigan • June 30 - July 3, 2011

obviously if Whiney was here he'd rep for Skrillex

Skrillex : 1

others : ?????

Hey I don't see Steez on that list.

REO Speedwagon have a doozy of a greatest hits record. I enjoy it without irony.

ohhhh ilxor u missed steez!

What? This thing gets two threads? Whatever, Canadians representing for The New Deal! (real answer: Skrillex).

Keller Williams is actually a pretty talented dude, but wastes it on the 99% of his songs that are complete ass. Galactic, iirc, used to be pretty decent too until they decided to go full throttle for the jamband scene.

Hey I don't see Steez on that list.

he was too far down on the billing, i got to 50 poll options and had to stop

Ned/cad: are you guys writing in votes for Steez?

Steez clearly exist in their own universe.

Steezness described:

Categorization be damned, the Madison-based five piece, Steez, consisting of Matt Williams (keyboards/synthesizers/accordion), Steve Neary (guitar and vocals), Rob Bessert (drums), Chris Sell (bass), and Andrzej Benkowski (saxophone, oboe, and violin) is — in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions – a funk band, a jamband, a fusion band, a disco-fanged multi-beast, and a basket case.

Churning out their self-described Creepfunk, a high energy, danceable variety of funk — one uniquely laced with electronic and improvisational sensibilities – Steez has garnered a loyal following throughout the Midwest. After receiving repeated acclaim for their live performances, which typically include a seamless weaving of thoughtfully composed originals and crowd pleasing covers spanning from Madonna to clever obscurities like Genialistid (Estonia), Steez hit the studio and released their first full length album, Creepfunk Crusade, in August 09 with independent label, Mason Jar Records.

Meanwhile, the grammatical wonder that is Future Rock:

Mickey Kellerman and Felix Moreno, alongside drummer Darren Heitz, are the driving force behind Future Rock. During their explosive live show, all three mibers wield synthesizers, live loops and samples-Kellerman on the keys, Moreno on the bass, Heitz on drums-to form an amalgamation of excitient, constructed completely live onstage. The Chicago trio has been perfecting its brand of live-instrument dance music since 2004 and-just like Future Rock’s pulsating and escalating anthis-their momentum is about to explode. Their live riixes of Black Moth Super Rainbow and Death from Above 1979 are sweeping proof of Future Rock’s riarkable riix skills. But that’s not all.

No need, your riarkable riix skills are enough.

This is more like an opening act festival. They should have reduced it to 2 days instead of 4, fire half of these clowns and hire at least two or three rising acts people actually care about.

Yeah I am disgusted at this cheapening of the name of the Electric Forest Festival, Rothbury MI

i actually have at least two albums by shpongle lying around somewhere.

awww... you left off Lettuce, who I wanted to vote for on the duplicate thread :-(

pretty sure this will still be better than the V Festival

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oh wait, no you didn't. i wanted to change my vote to Feed Me.

Aw, Shpongle-paws.

My wannabe hippie* is lobbying for us to go to this for some reason: http://www.aeonfestival.com/

*why? WHY?!

Eskmo is pretty good.

Other than a couple of decent dubstep acts, this has quite a few LOL names:

•Adam Issac
•Backbeat Soundsystem
•BadBadBad
•Born Ina Barn
•Bristol Reggae Orchestra
•Coda
•DJ Vadim presents The Electric
•Ellen and the Escapades
•Emily Baker
•Gobi
•Isaac's Aircraft
•Jake Morley
•James Owen Fender
•Jazzsteppa
•Jo Hamilton
•John Smith
•Kites
•Land of the Giants
•Leigh Mary Stokes
•Mad Dog Mcrea
•Matthew Halsall: Remixed
•Million Way
•Morning Rush
•Mozura
•Natalie Ross
•NUMB
•Phoria
•Soul Fi
•Spokes
•The Drop
•The Horfield Cardinal Assault
•The Transpersonals
•Toby Norman
•Trouble & Mischief
•Yngve & The Innocent
•Zun Zun Egui
•Bok Bok (Rinse, Night Slugs)
•Chris James [anabatic/artform/dub noir]
•Discreet Unit
•DJ Vadim
•Eats Everything
•Jack Sparrow (Tectonic)
•Kasra
•Midland
•Rockwell (Shogun Audio)
•Tim Sheridan
•V.I.V.E.K (Deep Medi)
•Dizraeli and The Small Gods
•Exmouth Sea Shanty Men
•Honeyfeet
•JiggeryPipery
•Jo Driscoll and Seckou
•Tako Lako
•The Zen Hussies
•Tin Roots
•Yes Sir Boss
•Yossouf Karembe
•Benji's Reggae Bus
•Magic Hatstand
•Beats and Bass Society
•BeatsWorkin

I like Born Ina Barn best - I'm imagining a sort of ragga/hoedown hybrid.

If I was at that festival I might be tempted to go and see Tiesto just to see what all the fuss was about.

I am planning to go to Boomtown Fair in August though, and that could go one of two ways.

I remember a few years ago having friends who were so psyched for this festival...I think Jack Johnson (!) headlined in 2008

I assume everyone on this line-up falls into one of the following genres:

- Israeli psytrance
- prog
- hippy acid techno/post Steve Hillage ambient
- fifth rate dubstep
- the kind of dub reggae bands who play a small tent at every single festival in the world, all year long

Oh and probably some folk as well.

best festival ever, clearly

Looks like a few jam bands and bluegrass groups too.

I assume one of them is a brass band playing Nirvana and Radiohead covers on a Sunday morning as well.

Y'know, despite all the lolling at this - isn't this kind of what a festival should be about, rather than billions of couch-potatoes drinking overpriced alcopops masquerading as cider watching Coldplay in a heavily gated field etc..?

I assume one of them is a brass band playing Nirvana and Radiohead covers on a Sunday morning as well.

Yeah, they're called Faust Parp

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band play Charley Pattton/Jimmie Rodgers-era late '20s/early '30s style country blues with tons of energy/humor/hooks/rhythm and lots of songs about food. Voting for them, though I'd go with REO Speedwagon by a mile if they promised to stick to their earliest few albums.

I kinda like that one Edward Sharpe song.

voting Galactic; thanks to j/v/c for alerting me to their presence on here

Ned/cad: are you guys writing in votes for Steez?

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, June 7, 2011 12:48 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

i haven't decided yet!

- Israeli psytrance
- prog
- hippy acid techno/post Steve Hillage ambient

Okay these three descriptions actually make it sound like a festival I'd want to see, espeically the last one.

Eskmo is pretty good.

my vote—saw him open for flying lotus at sxsw 2010 and i was impressed

only band i know on here are REO spedwagon, and i don't wanna vote for them. so skrillex due to their sounding like an alien race w a boss exoskeleton/mandible situation.

drummer for Galactic also played on the weirdo/departure Corrosion of Conformity record six or seven years ago iirc...

Shpongletron takes it in a walk.

Skrillex is the lowest common denominator when it comes to terrible brostep music.

i mean, look at this guy:

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQnV8yvbQgpaGfYmXuTcro6AmF4pDoKV9ilkjmTcY_yFL_1y3Y

“I’ve been deep into electronic music my entire life. The first records I ever owned were ‘Fat of Land’ by the Prodigy and ‘Come To Daddy’ by Aphex Twin,” raves Sonny Moore, better known as emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX. “Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails were also early influences. I’ve been dabbling in making electronic tracks on programs like Fruity Loops since I was 14 years old.”

loooooooooooooool

emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX
emerging electronic visionary SKRILLEX

Everyone grows up when they do and that's this dude's context. Why wouldn't he take that path?

are you defending skrillex?

You're not doing a good job of criticizing him.

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looooool "lettuce"

Ladies and Gentlemen, your winners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLwjBTWUtOA

Oh god I heard the new Korn w/ Skrillex song over the weekend, so awful.

lol i heard skrillex for the 1st time yesterday on the jukebox in a pool hall