Tag Archives: Kraddy

Music DJ Kraddy and Coachella Crazies @ DoLab

by Jeff Nau
April 21, 2010 - 5:51 am

The Freaks come out at night

The first night of Coachella was a bit of a mess… after 7 hours of traffic I got to the Festival a little late, and switched arrangements to see The Dillinger Escape Plan with, well, pretty much whomever I could find. Thus commenced a great deal of scrambling around and looking for weird sheize to frolic in. Having never been to the big C before, I stumbled around in the dark near what I would later learn is the ‘Outdoor stage’ and found myself in a land beyond sight and sound. I had passed the main stages and DJ tents. I’d reached: The Dolab.
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Music Glitch Mob Rock the River At Movement ‘09

by Ryan Patrick Hooper and Joe Gall
May 27, 2009 - 5:20 pm

Glitch Mob at Red Bull Music Academy

It’s eleven o’clock on a Saturday night in Detroit — do you know where your average hip hop-soaked, electro-lightning struck music fan is? Probably a cool 1,500 people deep in an eclectic crowd of Detroiters and international globetrotters, nodding their heads and moving their bodies to the intense bass-and-beat, multidimensional punch of the Glitch Mob on the Red Bull Music Academy stage at Movement ’09. From forcefully slapping recognizable, mainstream rap hooks across the face with various effects and hovering them above some of the crunchiest bass lines we’ve ever heard to the trio of electronic wonder boys working the crowd like seasoned rock stars, the Glitch Mob closed the Red Bull Music Academy Stage with not only laid back flare, but with flawless form and function to match. We managed to chase down the West Coast digital maestros — EdIT, Boreta and Ooah (missing in action — “hired gun” Kraddy) fresh after their atomic set; Ooah proudly marching over to the couch with a fifth of Jameson’s in hand and Z-Trip sitting off to the side, listening in. Oh, what a night…

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