Impromptu Kaskade dj show leads to riot gear response and arrests in LA

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News article here:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/28/california.disturbance/index.html?iref=obinsite

Really? Really? Who thought it was cool to throw a party and block traffic (which will really piss people off) without permission? Yes, I know "flash-mobs" sound cool, and I have heard of Renegade parties at places like Best Buy, but usually they are on private property with some kind of permission (for example, the store owner/manager is cool with it). Come on.

Sure it was outside a premier of a movie about the electronic daisy carnival, but still.

This does not help the music scene at all. Way to go.

I wonder if Kaskade is going to get in some sort of trouble for this. He didn't get arrested, but people who gathered to listen did.

End rant.

If this doesn't belong in EMD, feel free to move it, but I feel that it relates to the relationship of the electronic music culture with society.
 
I hear that a lot of their "rioting" consisted of planking in the middle of the street

:D
 
junglejuice said:
Yeah, but a burning police car is a hell of a light show!

=D
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lol.

Does this ban affect all open air music events or only the commercial fests? I would imagine that underground events are still around? Would someone from CA care to enlighten me?
 
I highly doubt this will have an affect on parties. The only reason this caused a massive chaos was that this "event" did not have a permit. If they wanted to have a block party in front of street they could have paid for a permit and just blocked off the street. People wouldn't have needed to be kicked out for blocking street thus getting people riled up. That would have prevented this whole ordeal.
 
This definitely seems like it could have been better planned and a lot more thought put into it...

On the other hand, this kind of thing is precisely what is needed to add some flavor to the electronic music scene... these kinds of parties and, yes, confrontiations with the law are common in Europe and greatly add to the vitality of the scene, and I would argue to the energy of the cities themselves.

Urban areas in the 21st century need to be places where cultural expressions are tolerated if not encouraged, where space can be freely used by people and not primarily by cars which take up a massive amount of precious urban square meterage - people need to learn some alternatives to driving.
 
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