Hey Immunetogreavity, I was also wondering about the EDM party scene in Colorado. How large is the scene there? Do 'average' young people know much about electronic music? Like do they know of the existence of trance, or does almost everyone just call it techno?
What kind of stuff is popular in Colorado? Do they mostly play Trance and progressive house/electro-house at the raves there? Is the Drum & Bass scene developed there? What about psytrance? Are clubs only open till 2am? I am assuming raves would be open till 4am or later though, is that correct? Are most of the big events held in metro-Denver or is there stuff regularly going on other parts of Colorado as well?
I am asking because from my experience (I've only been to San Fransisco, LA, Chicago, Vegas, NY, DC and I've lived in the Midwest for the past four years), EDM isn't very popular in the US outside of the large cities. Vegas seemed like a cool party city, but not particularly EDM-focused, although I am sure you can raves and other good places to roll. Unfortunately I went to Vegas with my parents and I was 20 at that time so I didn't have a chance to properly party. Same with DC, although I've heard they have a decent minimal scene.
The place where I live is absolutely awful when it comes EDM music/events. Even though we have about 30K undergraduates in our town, no one knows anything about EDM. Our university EDM organization does gigs once in a while that have decent music, but the atmosphere kinda sucks there. I've never seen anyone rolling and I don't really feel comfortable talking to randoms when I am high. Not too many people dance and often its obvious that they are not that into the music. Some people will stare at you if you zone out when getting a lightshow. Idiots think it's funny that you want to keep staring at the lights. The whole state is pretty much like that, except that vast majority of places will have no events whatsoever. From what my friends have been telling me the whole of Midwest is like that (except Chicago of course). One the other hand, LA has a much nicer EDM scene. The have raves with 10K+ people pretty much every month if not more often. They underground Drum & Bass gigs in warehouses. So I was just wondering if Colorado is closer to Cali than the Midwest...
Nice t-shirt, btw!