11.13.12 Cape Town!!! 8:00OPM Local, 1:00PM ET!

It's Christina Aguilera's new album.

Xtina's new record. I was excited at first because I thought he meant Flying Lotus and that would have been a lot cooler (just to me).

I have been listening to the Benny Benassi remix of Trespassing almost nonstop since I loaded the CD into my car. It is so f**king good. My favorite thing to do is to drive through the internal parking garage at my mother's active senior living apartment complex with the windows open and the sound turned UP. I get a few looks but it just makes the music better. Anyway, I just read this article about EDM (electronic dance music) and the Electric Daisy Carnival which kind of reminds me of Burning Man but not really as good because without all the art .... *shrugs* .... anyway, I thought this description of EDM was apt and it helps explain the theory behind the remix:

The only really crucial thing to note here about the music is that the whole thing is about the bass. [...] The progression of a house track, and one plausible reason for house's ascendancy, goes like this: There's some twinkly pirouetting melody in the higher registers, then some bass for a while, and then the introduction of a soaring, optimistic vocal track about saving the world or, for the slightly less ambitious, having a feeling re tonight's bestness, then the simultaneous near-crescendo of the twinkles and the all-out vocal redemption, and then, right at the moment of presumed climax, the bass goes away for a few beats, everybody misses the bass so much and can't wait for it to come back, maybe the snare reintroduces itself after a few seconds to remind you to get excited for the prodigal bass's triumphal homecoming, a good DJ takes just longer than expected to bring the bass back, 20,000 or 50,000 hearts stop as one, lever arms hanging anxiously in midair, and then, when the bass kicks back in, the crowd goes out of their motherfucking minds, just like they did the time the bass disappeared and came back four minutes ago, pumping their right arms in genuinely exhilarated unison, survivors all of the briefly yet catastrophically lost bass.

The whole article is here: www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201212/electric-daisy-carnival-edc-gq-december-2012

nom de guerre ‏@josirose

WOOOHOOO stage hah worth the long wait. And now almost 2 hours to Adam! pic.twitter.com/VQMUORYQ