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The Coolest Things We Saw at Electric Forest 2016

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I had the amazing opportunity to gallivant around Electric Forest for the first time a couple weeks ago. If you have never been to Electric Forest it is much more than a collection of stages that all have music scheduled throughout a weekend. The forest absolutely comes to life for about 5 days out of the year. After being there for more than 3 hours it is easy why many return to call it ‘home.’ There was so much to take in this weekend – while sitting under an art installation made up of light up ‘clouds’ surrounded by hammocks I was able to think about a few of my favorite things from this year’s Forest. Here’s to Electric Forest 2017!

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Sometimes life gets in the way and makes you miss when GRiZ closes out a festival in his home state – that is exactly what happened to me this year but I was in luck – because GRiZ made sure that his closing set at Sherwood Court on Sunday night was not his only set of the weekend. Not by a long shot. If you were vigilant enough at EF you could see GRiZ leading a sing-along parade throughout the forest,  leading a jam session at his All Good Records curated stage, or my personal favorite part of the weekend going b2b with Shooka for one of the craziest hours of bass house I have ever experienced. GRiZ very well could have taken the MVP crown of Electric Forest 2016

Photo By Dylan Langille © The String Cheese Incident All Rights Reserved 2016
Photo By Dylan Langille © GRiZ All Rights Reserved 2016

The Basshead Clean Up Crew

If you have kept up with music festival drama (I absolutely hate that I just said the phrase ‘music festival drama’) you no doubt may have seen the drama that has spawned from Bassnectar rail riders. These are the fans that are dedicated enough to camp out at a festival stage all day until Bassnectar performs in hopes of being on the rail. Many people have come out and said that this is disrespectful to the other artists. This year’s Electric Forest did indeed have rail riders – but none of the drama that comes with it. From what I saw they were very receptive to the acts playing beforehand – and even traded spots with other concert-goers so they could be at rail for their respective artist. If I had to pick a favorite moment of Electric Forest 2016 it would have to be walking through Ranch Arena no more than an hour after Bassnectar ended and seeing the venue absolutely spotless. Dedicated bassheads gathered trashbags and went up and down the stage grounds cleaning up trash together. I even saw a kid with his phone flashlight and gloves picking up cigarette butts. You can say what you want about the rail-riding behavior but you have to give credit where credit is due. This small group of fans truly exemplified the leave no trace attitude.
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The Police Presence
If you waded through enough neon colored outfits and forest themed costumes you would no doubt bump into a Michigan State trooper. Every single police officer I saw there was smiling, high fiving people and just had a general good attitude. They were receptive to questions – I even was able to join in on a debate that an officer was having with a young man regarding all the police brutality in the news. I know it’s cheesy, but I loved seeing all these cops in uniform with their forearms plastered with homemade bead bracelets (Kandi) given to them by Electric Forest goers. There wasn’t an ‘us against them’ vibe but more a ‘We’re all here to make sure everyone has a great time’ vibe. Fantastic.
Many people were disappointed when Porter Robinson wasn’t in attendance at EF ’15 to bring his Worlds live tour to life in the beauty of Electric Forest. So you can imagine the collective excitement when it was finally announced that Porter would be bringing it to EF ’16. Better late than never, right? Let me tell you, the wait was 1000% worth it. He closed Sherwood Court on Saturday night with authority. In the span of 75 minutes I saw people crying, I saw people screaming, I saw people look up at the stage in awe and simply smile. He even debuted some new music. As I was leaving Sherwood Court I overheard someone say – “Well, I think I can go back to my tent now. Every other set tonight is just going to fall short after that one.” The dude wasn’t even being insulting – he genuinely meant it!
The Nightbass Stage
 This might have been the stage I had the most fun at all weekend. Seeing people groove to all sorts of variations of house music from about 3 pm – 3 am at a stage nestled in the trees. As the sun got lower, the music got louder and the dance moves got weirder. It was incredible seeing acts like AC Slater bring a tiny stage to life in such a way. Not to mention a surprise DJ set by Gorgon City after they performed their live show at Sherwood Court. Note to festivals : Need more nightbass stages.
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