Madeon: Victory Live — The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, San Diego

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He taught himself Ableton before he was old enough to drive, which is the detail that explains everything after it. What happens on that stage is closer to conducting than to DJing — every sound triggered, layered and arranged live, no backing track, no safety net, one person building a cathedral out of nothing while a few thousand people watch the scaffolding go up. The room matters as much as the set. An open-air amphitheater built for a symphony orchestra, the harbor black and glittering behind the stage, acoustics engineered for strings and handed for one night to synthesizers instead. That mismatch is the whole appeal: a hall designed for Beethoven, borrowed by a producer from Nantes who came up on the internet. The Rady Shell on the waterfront, an October evening. Take the friend who insists they do not like electronic music, and watch their face during the encore.