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LASplash.com: Miami Performances Ultra Music Festival Review - Welcome to the Electronic Sounds of the Ultimate Digital Music Festival By Saundra Feng
The breeze hits my face as I stand on top of a hill over looking the palm trees of bay front Miami. Surrounding me are half naked bodies bouncing with rainbow colored beads, splashes of neon color, fuzzy leggings, men with daisy hats, Chinese dragons, massive amounts of fog, multi colored lasers beaming from the stages, and inflated white tentacles all dancing and pulsing to a soundtrack of epic proportions.
Ultra Music Festival spans over the course of two days, held in Miami's Bi Centennial Olympic Park the festival hosts over a 100 djs divided among eight stages and more than 50,000 patrons, turning the park grounds into a haven for urban arts and music.
Ultra Music Festival provides a common ground for musicians, artists, and fans from all types of backgrounds and ethnicities.Adorned with glow sticks and national flags party patrons from Brazil, England, Spain, Portugal, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Germany, and all over the globe gather together to enjoy the sounds of beats remixed, modified, and synthesized over a bass line of a drum machine. Forming a unique youth culture from music birthed in the underground, brought directly into the main stream.
Ultra Music Festival can be viewed as the Woodstock of the digital millennium, giving everyone an opportunity to experience and listen to new music and meet people from all walks of life. Breaking performance from headline artists such as:
Simian Mobile Disco: one of the best dance performances of all, where a man dances with a rubber ball and eventually immerses himself into it.
The Prodigy: my favorite artist above all
Black Eyed Peas: Pop and dance
Armin Van Buuren: Smooth and Dreamy
Crystal Castles: Full of attitude and Punchy
Icey: Epic and Hip
Carl Cox: Synthesizer Mastermind
Pedulum: drum and bass Along with many other great artists too many to list. Merchandise and fashion was available at the bohemian market place where attendees could purchase disposable cameras, Ultra brand gear, summer dresses,'I am in Miami bitch' t-shirts, cd's, and jewelry. Among the different vendors, is the Global Inheritance trashed recycling store where attendees can use plastics bottles and aluminum cans to barter for a variety of goods from the new 'green' stamps fetch i-Pods, Netflix® memberships, Bindi Desserts, to Camel-bak bags.
Adjacent to the store was Global Inheritance Tour De Energy Exhibit, demonstrating how electricity could be generated then stored into a 12 volt battery by peddling a bicycle. The TRASHed Art of Recycling campaign where plain recycling bins are transformed into canvasses for unique pieces of art.
Gorgeous weather, beautiful people, cutting edge fashion, and killer music warped up in a multi cultural pancake served on the sands of Miami beaches: glazed over with live shows and dashed with a hint of Miami's fire hot Latin flavor. Ultra Music Festival was an experience packed with great performances and gorgeous light shows, hyped up energy from the crowd, and lots of dance, dance, dance.
Definitely an experience that I will not forget and a party that I will look forward to attending next year.
Location: Bicentennial Olympic Park 1075 Biscayne Blvd Maimi Florida USA Dates: March 27 & March 28 Ticket Pricing : Ga $130 & VIP $350 For more information: http://www.ultramusicfestival.com/ * a special thanks to all the PR's at Ultra, Rob Lateiner and Adrian Owens for photography. Published Apr 7, 2009 © Copyright 2003-2004 by LA Splash.com |
