The Weekend at The Bluebird Theater

This weekend was absolutely wild in Denver: three shows, four days, lots of fun!

On Thursday night, after an overabundance of ill-fitting opening acts, Joker finally made his appearance on stage to a jacked up crowd of just around 300 (capacity is 500).  This might seem like a small attendance rate, but we made it seem huge; a ton of energy, room to get into a groove and be comfortable!  Joker absolutely crushed his set performing with nearly 70% dub-plates.  While not the most engaging DJ/producer, he is strictly professional and does an incredible job mixing and tweaking everything together. Every song I wanted to hear, I heard; dropping ‘Back in the Days’ and ‘Watch the sun come up’ back-to-back, the instrumental plate of ‘the Vision’, his groovy ‘snake eater’, the new track ‘on my mind’ and many more that I can’t seem to recall.  Walking out of the show, the entourage and I commented on how it was one of the best shows we’ve been to in a hot minute.  That’s the way I felt until walking through the same doors the very next night.

Preparing for Mt. Eden’s show, was not as energy filled as it was for Joker; I just had gone to a sick show the night before, and I had always viewed Mt. Eden as super groovy, get-on-the-grind music. Holy hell was I mistaken. The opening acts, Digital Connection and Skywalkerr, came heavy and hard! DC had so much energy from the start and I can’t wait for what’s to come with this young DJ! Skywalkerr was a seasoned professional and knew exactly how to play to the crowd.  Both of them got us all raging and pumped for what Harley and Jesse had in store.

When the three came on stage (third was the MC), the whole crowd erupted.  Opening the show with ‘Escape’ was….epic. From there it somehow just kept getting better and better.  This show revolved around the individual moments; the huge buildups, the subtle teases, the slamming drops, and realizing that moment when you just heard an unreleased edit. Literally every single song I wanted to hear live at a show, EVERY!! not just Mt. Eden’s, was dropped; from Skream, Benga and Nero, to Imogen Heap remixes. What I can remember were: Nero’s ‘Promises’; Emalkay’s ‘Fabrication’, Mt. Eden’s ‘Sierra Leone’ and new-ish track ‘Frozen’, Pretty Lights’ ‘I Know the Truth’, teased us with it for a second then dropped it harder than Derek himself.  I’m working on getting a setlist from Harley at the moment, so you can see all of them, check back to scope it.   With Savoy/STS9 at Red Rocks taking the number 1 spot for 2011 so far, Friday’s show from Mt. Eden was a minutely close second! The three Kiwi’s brought incredibly high energy, played absolute BANGERS, and got the crowd going! If these boys are ever in your area, do not even think about going, just DO IT!

I’ve included their newest track, ‘Closing in’, a remix collaboration with Loz Contreras which was released last night and dropped during the show.  It’s a lot livelier and bouncier than what we’re used to hearing from this duo, but good as hell nonetheless. Check it!

Oh yeah, and I went to Mac Miller on Sunday. Nothing to say, left after 30 minutes.

Download: Imogen Heap – Closing In (Mt. Eden & Loz Contreras remix)

jerZ

Having more Fun a Mile High

Tags: Bluebird Theater, Caustik, Denver Dubstep, Digital Connection, Joker Live, Joker review, MT Eden, Mt Eden review, New Mt. Eden, Shows in Denver, Sick New Dubstep, Skywalkerr, Souls in Action, Thorazine