IN, Bloomington - 11.05.09 Thursday - Bassnectar at Bluebird Nightclub *REVIEW*

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11/05/09: Bassnectar at Bluebird Nightclub - Bloomington, IN
July 26, 2009 by Bassnectar Labs

Bassnectar will be performing on November 5, 2009 at Bluebird Nightclub.

As part of Bassnectar’s Cozza Frenzy Tour, the rumble will be provided by the Wobble Factory’s PK sound system and the room will flash with Videolicious’ visual flair!

This is a 21+ event.

The tour celebrates the release of Bassnectar’s new studio album, Cozza Frenzy, out digitally on September 29th, 2009 with CDs in stores on October 27th… or you can just snag your copy at the show.

Visit http://music bassnectar.net for a preview or subscribe to the site feed for the latest news, tour updates, and podcasts, including free downloads of bootlegs, mix sets, and original tracks…

Check the sidebar to the right and hit the “Get Download” button to snatch some free tracks before the show. More DJ Tools packs and other doses of musical nectar will be dropped throughout the Fall and Winter. Stay tuned!

Bluebird is located at 216 N. Walnut, Bloomington, IN 47401. After the PK Sound rig gets going, the Bluebird may wobble closer to 218 or 220 N. Walnut. Just FYI in case you’re runnin late.

Where ever the Bluebird rattles off to, make sure you’re inside it when it happens.



Doors @ 8:00 PM
Event @ 9:30 PM
Tickets $22.43 if bought off Bassnectar's site.
 
This should be sick. How the fuck did we miss this tour in Indy? I knew nothing of it myself, damn :o
 
No promotion for it what so ever. A friend of Curtis and I just happen to see it on the bluebirds website and told us about it.
 
Bloomington peeps could care less about indy...probably because nobody (for the most part) promotes indy events on campus,etc.
 
Patrick Bateman said:
Bloomington peeps could care less about indy...probably because nobody (for the most part) promotes indy events on campus,etc.
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No. Bloomington doesn't care about Indy because they don't have to. When you have 60,000 twenty-somethings living in a 5 sq mile area, you don't have to promote to the city north of you. Girl Talk pulled almost 5,000 ppl last week for an outdoor show in the rain. WTF do they need Indy for?

Another reason why this show is in Btown and not Indy, is because larger talent agencies like Windish wont fuck w/ Indianapolis because every large, CURRENTLY RELEVANT underground show here tanks.

And the Bassnectar show has been promoted in Bloomington for the past 2 months. My friend's lil brother is throwing the show, and he's expecting the Bird to sell out.
 
Jay-P Gold said:
No. Bloomington doesn't care about Indy because they don't have to. When you have 60,000 twenty-somethings living in a 5 sq mile area, you don't have to promote to the city north of you. Girl Talk pulled almost 5,000 ppl last week for an outdoor show in the rain. WTF do they need Indy for?

Another reason why this show is in Btown and not Indy, is because larger talent agencies like Windish wont fuck w/ Indianapolis because every large, CURRENTLY RELEVANT underground show here tanks.

And the Bassnectar show has been promoted in Bloomington for the past 2 months. My friend's lil brother is throwing the show, and he's expecting the Bird to sell out.
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I was talking about the other end of the spectrum...we could pull more b-town peeps if anything was promoted there. educated minds clued into good music, electronic or otherwise, won't hesitate to travel an hr to hear an artist they're familiar with. I'm sure if that girl talk show was in indy and promoted heavily on campus as well as indy you got ur five thousand ppl for the most part. seems pretty simple to me.
 
And Bassnectar is everywhere right now. Hard to name places they AREN'T playing. lol

They were just in Nashville and hitting a lot of college towns right now. They're going to be in Oxford, MS in a couple weeks. That's just weird.

This one or Girl Talk could've been pulled off in Indy if done properly. I seriously doubt they were avoiding Indy. I'm guessing they weren't asked. ;)
 
Patrick Bateman said:
I was talking about the other end of the spectrum...we could pull more b-town peeps if anything was promoted there. educated minds clued into good music, electronic or otherwise, won't hesitate to travel an hr to hear an artist they're familiar with. I'm sure if that girl talk show was in indy and promoted heavily on campus as well as indy you got ur five thousand ppl for the most part. seems pretty simple to me.
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why drive up to indy when they consistently have better shows than us? talent agencies actually target bloomington for shows that they wouldnt bother trying to book in indianapolis. IU is one of the largest state funded schools in the nation. the sheer size of the school provides so many activity options that students never have to leave. the size and liberal nature of the town makes it a haven for "underground" music.

then throw in an hour drive back to Btown at the end of the night (most likely drunk), and most ppl wont want to risk it.

even if you can pull a few kids, it's never going to be consistent because their are dope shows/parties almost every single night in bloomington. additionally, there are kids in btown already throwing weekly dance parties like the crew from Dope Couture.

i have friends that grew up in Indy and moved to Bloomington that never come back here for those reasons.

indy had girltalk and it didnt pull even a 1000 ppl.

the shows in indy that do draw from bloomington are shows being thrown at venues like Deer Creek and Conseco. it takes a top 40 act to get kids from bloomington to travel.

the one group of kids that i know of from btown that do travel for shows are the dudes in IU Breaking or whatever. they're usually down to drive up here for stuff because they don't drink.
 
G-9 Collective said:
This one or Girl Talk could've been pulled off in Indy if done properly. I seriously doubt they were avoiding Indy. I'm guessing they weren't asked. ;)
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you've obviously never tried to deal w/ Windish. And you hit the nail on the head. They hit college towns. And Nashville has always been known as a music hub and will always have a stronger music scene than Indy.

Girl Talk was actually a promo done by Victoria's Secret directed at young women. They chose Bloomington over Indy because of Bloomington's large youth market. Even with Butler and IUPUI, Indy doesn't have a strong youth market.
 
if bloomington's underground shows are so dope (sans bluebird,etc venues) why aren't they advertising here then? i lived in bloomington for three years so i know what goes down...but i never thought for one second the dj talent could hold a candle to what indy has. more posers than anything riding the wave of being the "ubiquitous" dj. i think if any dj with a right mind wanted to get the word out that they're the shit we probably would already know about it by now...

b-town has it's own niche but now as compared to when i was down there it seems more watered down and commercialized than anything. i almost don't recognize it :( it used to have a mystique now it just seems to lack depth and almost has become a parody of itself. less hippies and more ed hardy = fail

my .02
 
Jay-P Gold said:
indy had girltalk and it didnt pull even a 1000 ppl.
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that was before "feed the animals" came out...and also it just so happened to be right when GT was really pushing being GT instead of being a biochemical engineer or whatever he was. it took about a year or so before his more "crunk" sound (which was deliberately geared towards being less electronic to get the attention of the young suburbanites that love him so much now) actually took off. i think it was that bonaroo show in 2007 that really catapulted him from being just another dude with a laptop and some clever mash-up/edits into what he is today. it wasn't overnight by any means...listen to some of those older GT mixtapes and go in chronological order to see the progression of his sound. it was a no-brainer to me when i saw him at talbott that he was going to blow up even more...

throw that show at talbott NOW and cater to that "youth" demographic in bloomington and i guarantee you that plenty would come, get a hotel/stay w family/friends,etc. maybe not as many that would attend the show if it were in bloomington but if the promotion was right and the venue was suitable the cross-section of indy vs. bloomington would probably be more tangible than you think ;)
 
Bassnectar in Bloomington instead of Indy is all $
Indy is an Industrial WASTELAND. People have to actually try to get to the show in INDY.
I swear: interview those kids coming out of the show - less than 20% will even know who the fuck Bassnectar is. Fuck to that extent less than 20% will even know what Electronic Dance Music IS ! We are exploding into the future my dear EDM friends into a strange place where the youth are brainless, tasteless, cultureless, imagineless drones FUSED TO THIER COMPUTERPHONES. Its @ Bluebird cause they know that kids will walk or drive past there all night flooding in just cause there's a big ass crowd. These kids have D.Drivers & CABS coming out the ass and when it comes to the Bars they will just check all of them out.
Btown [ HAD ] it's own niche. bIG $ and the RENT Cost that follows them has DESTROYED any Creative demographic in Bloomington. It just comes down to this: If you care about Electronic Music Culture the time has come to foster it. We are now as the jedi. A forgotten order of lore.& as long as it's like that (& that's the way it is) promoters and venues are going to book shows that have nothing to do with providing good art. They'll only do it to make $. One has three options if you live here still: #1. Move to California. #2. Move to New York #3. RECREATE IN ITS ENTIRETY OUR BELOVED MIDWEST RAVE SCENE.
 
Patrick Bateman said:
throw that show at talbott NOW and cater to that "youth" demographic in bloomington and i guarantee you that plenty would come, get a hotel/stay w family/friends,etc. maybe not as many that would attend the show if it were in bloomington but if the promotion was right and the venue was suitable the cross-section of indy vs. bloomington would probably be more tangible than you think ;)
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From what I understand, he WILL NOT play "club" venues. Something about wanting to separate himself from the "DJ Culture". haha
 
G-9 Collective said:
From what I understand, he WILL NOT play "club" venues. Something about wanting to separate himself from the "DJ Culture". haha
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that's funny I saw him earlier in the yr at the former axis/mars club venue in bloomington (or late '08, can't remember). it was 'sold out' but I still walked up to the door and got my ticket...he's not a musician but he's not a dj? wtf is he then?? just a clever guy w an ear for mashups?? um...u put ludachrist on one end and girl talk on the other, soundclash style, and let the ppl decide. I'm going to go see ludachrist...
 
cutemoon said:
Bassnectar in Bloomington instead of Indy is all $
Indy is an Industrial WASTELAND. People have to actually try to get to the show in INDY.
I swear: interview those kids coming out of the show - less than 20% will even know who the fuck Bassnectar is. Fuck to that extent less than 20% will even know what Electronic Dance Music IS ! We are exploding into the future my dear EDM friends into a strange place where the youth are brainless, tasteless, cultureless, imagineless drones FUSED TO THIER COMPUTERPHONES. Its @ Bluebird cause they know that kids will walk or drive past there all night flooding in just cause there's a big ass crowd. These kids have D.Drivers & CABS coming out the ass and when it comes to the Bars they will just check all of them out.
Btown [ HAD ] it's own niche. bIG $ and the RENT Cost that follows them has DESTROYED any Creative demographic in Bloomington. It just comes down to this: If you care about Electronic Music Culture the time has come to foster it. We are now as the jedi. A forgotten order of lore.& as long as it's like that (& that's the way it is) promoters and venues are going to book shows that have nothing to do with providing good art. They'll only do it to make $. One has three options if you live here still: #1. Move to California. #2. Move to New York #3. RECREATE IN ITS ENTIRETY OUR BELOVED MIDWEST RAVE SCENE.
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you have must fall into one of two categories. 1. you probably dont know any kids still in undergrad, or 2. your taste in music is stuck somewhere around 2000 w/ classic rave music like house, techno, and trance.

dance music is back in a huge way in bloomington. some of the most cutting edge acts have played btown over the past year including GT, Flosstradamus, Franki Chan, and Claire Hux. (HipHop too: WALE, you better act like you know youngin') you just have to recognize that dance music is changing and new genres like dubstep, mashup, baltimore club, and electro have supplanted classic EDM as the hot styles to follow. and in a few more years, something new will come along in dance music.

raves are dead. long live dance music!
 
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