(Orlando FL) Heavy rains and thunderstorms over the City Beautiful couldn't stop more than a thousand electronic music enthusiasts from filling up the Central Florida Fairgrounds this evening in order to attend CosmicWorld Orlando.
Originally, the event was supposed to begin at 5:00pm with DJ Dark Vice spinning on 'Earth Stage', one of 4 specially designed areas from which event-goers would travel through as they experienced different beats and different environments in order to immerse their senses and get lost in the trance of electronic music. Although the event was said to continue in rain or shine, event management wisely opted on the side of safety with lightning and thunderstorms in dangerously close proximity to the Fairgrounds delaying the start of the festival by an hour. Attendees were eager to get their dance on, so when the first beat dropped the crowd roared with excitement and CosmicWorld Orlando was underway.
Although 5 DJs (Dark Vice, Miami's Travis Emmons, the very popular Funkagenda, DJ Phiona, and Orlando's own A-Rock) were slotted to spin on Earth Stage alone, the focus at the festival was on the fans in attendance dancing with arms thrown up in the air. In fact, much of the time, the DJs were barely visible as there were no lights to illuminate them or their turntables. This was my first time to attend an event like this, but I could see the irony in how the lack of lightning actually highlighted the crowd's oneness with the music as opposed to just watching someone on stage perform.
I made my way over through a colorful mist in the air to make my way over to the Immersive Pyramid close to 8:30pm. In this area, the highly coveted 'cosmic paint' would erupt out onto the crowd every 15 minutes. With music pumping from 3 different DJs (Florida's 'Sheen Boogie', UCF's official DJ 'Chizzle', and the raving duo of 'Wet X Wild') fans here happily dancing here, while waiting to get covered in powdered chalk. Due to the blacklights located at each stage, fans covered in the powdery material would light up in all sorts of different colors and it was a pretty cool spectacle to see as attendees now looked ready to dance amongst the Cosmos.
Unfortunately I was not able to see 'Gravity Stage' operational. I had heard though shortly after I had left that this was a pretty wild experience, dancing under 1000's of feet of silver tinsel hanging overhead. Set to DJ here were local club favorite 'Kid Judah', New York City's 'Branchez', and Los Angeles' 'Lumberjvck'.
However, what I missed at Gravity Stage was completely made up over at Cosmic Stage. This was the main stage of the festival. It was one thing to see a lot of people at one corner of the festival, and then a lot of people over by the Immersive Pyramid, and then a lot of people walking in between; however, Gravity Stage is what brought these masses together, and that's when you could see just how large a crowd had shown up for tonight. You could hear the bass from this stage clearly out in the parking lot almost a quarter-mile away. You could see the lasers that were projecting outward from the stage in parts of downtown Orlando. The craziest part was seeing the audience act as one uniform unit -- when the front row's hands went up, EVERYONE's hands went up; when a few kids in the middle of the crowd started jumping up and down, EVERYONE would soon be jumping up and down. Moving the masses in this area were Los Angeles' DJ 'M35', the UK's 'D.O.D.', and tonight's marquee DJ duo act out of Los Angeles: SULTAN + NED SHEPARD.
Tonight's show was supposed to let out around midnight; however, promoters and organizers were able to get the City to agree to an extension until 1:30 am due to the earlier storm delays.
If you like electronic music and have the opportunity to attend one of the (6) upcoming CosmicWorld events (Charlotte, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Diego, or Los Angeles), I would highly recommend that you do so. In Orlando, they were able to turn our Fairgrounds into a bass-thumping open-sky dancehall. I couldn't believe how loud and clean the sound was, and you won't get to experience the cosmic paint anywhere else that I'm aware. CosmicWorld is really about becoming one with the music, and letting yourself fully submit yourself to the sounds and sights of this world of electronic music.
Originally, the event was supposed to begin at 5:00pm with DJ Dark Vice spinning on 'Earth Stage', one of 4 specially designed areas from which event-goers would travel through as they experienced different beats and different environments in order to immerse their senses and get lost in the trance of electronic music. Although the event was said to continue in rain or shine, event management wisely opted on the side of safety with lightning and thunderstorms in dangerously close proximity to the Fairgrounds delaying the start of the festival by an hour. Attendees were eager to get their dance on, so when the first beat dropped the crowd roared with excitement and CosmicWorld Orlando was underway.
Although 5 DJs (Dark Vice, Miami's Travis Emmons, the very popular Funkagenda, DJ Phiona, and Orlando's own A-Rock) were slotted to spin on Earth Stage alone, the focus at the festival was on the fans in attendance dancing with arms thrown up in the air. In fact, much of the time, the DJs were barely visible as there were no lights to illuminate them or their turntables. This was my first time to attend an event like this, but I could see the irony in how the lack of lightning actually highlighted the crowd's oneness with the music as opposed to just watching someone on stage perform.
I made my way over through a colorful mist in the air to make my way over to the Immersive Pyramid close to 8:30pm. In this area, the highly coveted 'cosmic paint' would erupt out onto the crowd every 15 minutes. With music pumping from 3 different DJs (Florida's 'Sheen Boogie', UCF's official DJ 'Chizzle', and the raving duo of 'Wet X Wild') fans here happily dancing here, while waiting to get covered in powdered chalk. Due to the blacklights located at each stage, fans covered in the powdery material would light up in all sorts of different colors and it was a pretty cool spectacle to see as attendees now looked ready to dance amongst the Cosmos.
Unfortunately I was not able to see 'Gravity Stage' operational. I had heard though shortly after I had left that this was a pretty wild experience, dancing under 1000's of feet of silver tinsel hanging overhead. Set to DJ here were local club favorite 'Kid Judah', New York City's 'Branchez', and Los Angeles' 'Lumberjvck'.
However, what I missed at Gravity Stage was completely made up over at Cosmic Stage. This was the main stage of the festival. It was one thing to see a lot of people at one corner of the festival, and then a lot of people over by the Immersive Pyramid, and then a lot of people walking in between; however, Gravity Stage is what brought these masses together, and that's when you could see just how large a crowd had shown up for tonight. You could hear the bass from this stage clearly out in the parking lot almost a quarter-mile away. You could see the lasers that were projecting outward from the stage in parts of downtown Orlando. The craziest part was seeing the audience act as one uniform unit -- when the front row's hands went up, EVERYONE's hands went up; when a few kids in the middle of the crowd started jumping up and down, EVERYONE would soon be jumping up and down. Moving the masses in this area were Los Angeles' DJ 'M35', the UK's 'D.O.D.', and tonight's marquee DJ duo act out of Los Angeles: SULTAN + NED SHEPARD.
Tonight's show was supposed to let out around midnight; however, promoters and organizers were able to get the City to agree to an extension until 1:30 am due to the earlier storm delays.
If you like electronic music and have the opportunity to attend one of the (6) upcoming CosmicWorld events (Charlotte, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Diego, or Los Angeles), I would highly recommend that you do so. In Orlando, they were able to turn our Fairgrounds into a bass-thumping open-sky dancehall. I couldn't believe how loud and clean the sound was, and you won't get to experience the cosmic paint anywhere else that I'm aware. CosmicWorld is really about becoming one with the music, and letting yourself fully submit yourself to the sounds and sights of this world of electronic music.
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