Somebody in your life has a very strong opinion about a track released in 2002, and if you bring it up they will explain, at length, that it was either the beginning or the end of something. Twenty-four years later the argument is unresolved and the man who caused it is still touring.
Benny Benassi is one of the small number of producers whose work genuinely rerouted a genre — the filtered electro-house sound he helped define got absorbed so completely that people forget it had an author. He has a Grammy for a remix and a catalogue that spans from the original club records through the festival era and out the other side. Seeing him in a room of a few hundred rather than a field of thirty thousand is the version worth having.
Saturday the twenty-fourth, doors at ten, and the room in Costa Mesa is small enough to see his hands.
Somebody in your life has a very strong opinion about a track released in 2002, and if you bring it up they will explain, at length, that it was either the beginning or the end of something. Twenty-four years later the argument is unresolved and the man who caused it is still touring.
Benny Benassi is one of the small number of producers whose work genuinely rerouted a genre — the filtered electro-house sound he helped define got absorbed so completely that people forget it had an author. He has a Grammy for a remix and a catalogue that spans from the original club records through the festival era and out the other side. Seeing him in a room of a few hundred rather than a field of thirty thousand is the version worth having.
Saturday the twenty-fourth, doors at ten, and the room in Costa Mesa is small enough to see his hands.
Somebody in your life has a very strong opinion about a track released in 2002, and if you bring it up they will explain, at length, that it was either the beginning or the end of something. Twenty-four years later the argument is unresolved and the man who caused it is still touring.
Benny Benassi is one of the small number of producers whose work genuinely rerouted a genre — the filtered electro-house sound he helped define got absorbed so completely that people forget it had an author. He has a Grammy for a remix and a catalogue that spans from the original club records through the festival era and out the other side. Seeing him in a room of a few hundred rather than a field of thirty thousand is the version worth having.
Saturday the twenty-fourth, doors at ten, and the room in Costa Mesa is small enough to see his hands.