Afro house has been quietly taking over dance floors for three years and most of the coverage still files it under a vague global-sounds heading, as though rhythm sections that specific were an accident. The people who actually follow it have gotten used to explaining it badly to friends and then giving up.
This one is outdoors, downtown, in the civic park between the courthouse and the music center — which is an unlikely place for a six-hour dance event and exactly why it works. Grand Park is a public plaza with grass and fountains and no walls, so the sound carries up the hill and people walking to their cars stop and stay. The crowd ends up being half people who bought in months ago and half people who wandered in, and the second group is what makes an outdoor set different from a club.
Five PM to eleven, which means you get the whole arc: daylight and families early, sunset over the Civic Center, and a properly dark floor for the last two hours. Bring a layer, because downtown after dark in November turns on you.
Saturday November 14 at Gloria Molina Grand Park, 200 North Grand Avenue. Send it to the friend who keeps saying they want to go out but not to a club.
Afro house has been quietly taking over dance floors for three years and most of the coverage still files it under a vague global-sounds heading, as though rhythm sections that specific were an accident. The people who actually follow it have gotten used to explaining it badly to friends and then giving up.
This one is outdoors, downtown, in the civic park between the courthouse and the music center — which is an unlikely place for a six-hour dance event and exactly why it works. Grand Park is a public plaza with grass and fountains and no walls, so the sound carries up the hill and people walking to their cars stop and stay. The crowd ends up being half people who bought in months ago and half people who wandered in, and the second group is what makes an outdoor set different from a club.
Five PM to eleven, which means you get the whole arc: daylight and families early, sunset over the Civic Center, and a properly dark floor for the last two hours. Bring a layer, because downtown after dark in November turns on you.
Saturday November 14 at Gloria Molina Grand Park, 200 North Grand Avenue. Send it to the friend who keeps saying they want to go out but not to a club.
Afro house has been quietly taking over dance floors for three years and most of the coverage still files it under a vague global-sounds heading, as though rhythm sections that specific were an accident. The people who actually follow it have gotten used to explaining it badly to friends and then giving up.
This one is outdoors, downtown, in the civic park between the courthouse and the music center — which is an unlikely place for a six-hour dance event and exactly why it works. Grand Park is a public plaza with grass and fountains and no walls, so the sound carries up the hill and people walking to their cars stop and stay. The crowd ends up being half people who bought in months ago and half people who wandered in, and the second group is what makes an outdoor set different from a club.
Five PM to eleven, which means you get the whole arc: daylight and families early, sunset over the Civic Center, and a properly dark floor for the last two hours. Bring a layer, because downtown after dark in November turns on you.
Saturday November 14 at Gloria Molina Grand Park, 200 North Grand Avenue. Send it to the friend who keeps saying they want to go out but not to a club.