XLIVE 2017 FestX Award Winners

Xlive 2017 was non-stop learning and excitement accompanied by the debut of the Inaugural FestX Awards. We were thrilled to attend the ceremony, watching AudioMolly favorite, Electric Forest take home two wins for Best Fan Community and Best Production Design! To top it all off, we discovered Lost Lake Festival from their win of Best New Festival. Can’t wait to check it out along with Afropunk, and Firefly Music Fesitival in 2018! XLive is brining a whole new, much needed level of exposure to the festival and live events space. See their recap video and more awards winners below:

BEST BEER/WINE FESTIVAL
OKTOBERFEST

BEST BRAND + FESTIVAL PAIRING
PANORAMA MUSIC FESTIVAL + HP, “HP LAB”

BEST FAMILY-FRIENDLY FESTIVAL
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL

BEST FAN COMMUNITY
ELECTRIC FOREST, “FORESTFAM”

BEST ESPORTS FESTIVAL
BLIZZCON

BEST FOOD FESTIVAL
TASTE OF CHICAGO

BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY AT A FESTIVAL
COACHELLA + OBSCURA DIGITAL, “ANTARCTIC DOME”

OUTSTANDING GREEN EVENT
DGTL, “REVOLUTION”

BEST NEW FESTIVAL
LOST LAKE FESTIVAL

FAN’S CHOICE AWARD
VIVE LATINO

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
ELECTRIC FOREST

OUTSTANDING SOCIAL IMPACT
AFROPUNK

BEST RELATIONSHIP WITH FANS
FIREFLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

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Lightning in a Bottle 2015

Last year, lightning in a bottle was the most surprising festival experience I had ever had; this year, the most fulfilling. My only regret is having not mastered macro scale quantum superposition so that I could fully experience everything the festival had to offer with out abandon.

I had been looking forward to seeing Stylust Beats for a while, so it was great to get to catch that set on the Thunder stage along with several of other favorites RL Grime, Griz, Koan Sound, Phutureprimitive and The Opiuo Band. Impressive headliners Such as Flume, Tycho and Odesza electrified the Lightning stage while the Woogie was nonstop dope beats; luckily I was camped near by because I couldn’t get enough.

There is so much more than just music to experience at LiB, countless yoga and workshops, holistically covering all aspects of health and consciousness. I was super stoked to get to catch Nassim Haramein, thought I had missed him earlier in the day, so I was over joyed when I heard his voice coming from the Temple Stage when haphazardly wandering by at 12am Sunday Morning.

In between it all were volumes of artwork on display and the Android Jones projection mapped dome was a huge hit. Particularly entertaining performance art acts this year included favorite, Lucent Dossier Experience, Dream World Cirque, Bubble Gutter and Les Sirens. Can’t forget about the newly remodeled Amori’s Casino and Burlesque for after hours entertainment.

It’s difficult for one person to give a full account of this festival, with so much variety, I can only share my sliver of experience and assure you that if you haven’t been to Lightning in a Bottle yet, you must experience it for yourself. Compared to the many festivals I’ve attended I believe this is a wonderful first time festival experience for a newbie. When I mentioned earlier that this was my most fulfilling LiB it was because I brought my friend from Miami who had never been and she had the time of her life, which was the ultimate highlight for me.

The Do Lab is bringing Woogie Weekend to the Oak Canyon Park festival grounds this July 17th-19th, check out the website for more details!


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Mixtape me anotha

yyyyyYYYYYYYESSSSSssss!  Stephan threw a mixtape on your face!!!  It’s been a minute now since we’ve gotten more than 3 minutes of Jacobs juicyness.  Obviously it’s taken quite a while to get a mixtape of this caliber.  This mix takes you from grimy Dutch house to bass to trap to you name it, with highlights of hip hop making this musical journey extra super duper womp womp danceable.

I’ve been a fan of Stephan ever since I heard his remix of Gui Boratto’s “No Turning back”.   When I first heard it, I thought my heart was going to break or burst out of my chest or ears or ANYwhere! The emotion was just overwhelming and to this day when I play it I still feel it just as hard as the first time.  To me, this is the reason music exists.

 

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