The solar rose and set to Skrillex‘s command over the weekend at Lollapalooza, the place the dubstep icon reworked one of many pageant’s most beloved levels into his personal grownup playground.
Sporting a brand new identify atop its towering truss, the long-lasting Perry’s Stage reworked into “Sonny’s Stage” and trembled underneath the burden of Skrillex’s sonic bookends as he opened Saturday with a midday set underneath the Chicago solar earlier than closing the night time with a thunderous encore at 8:15. A curated lineup of his associates and collaborators, together with Kenny Beats and 4 Tet, constructed the power to a fever pitch in-between.
When darkness fell, Skrillex returned to detonate that pent-up frenzy with a genre-bending blitz of bangers, together with spins of “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites,” Bangarang” and his remix of Avicii’s timeless “Ranges.” The energy boiled over when he closed with “RATATA,” his fan-favorite collaboration with Missy Elliott from last year’s Quest for Fire album.
Many fans at “Sonny’s Stage” stayed put the whole day. Skrillex paused at one level to pay homage to the stage’s namesake, Perry Farrell, and acknowledge his want for it to stay devoted to the famed Lollapalooza co-founder.
The uncommon takeover was an enormous second for the digital dance music neighborhood contemplating Farrell’s thorny relationship with the style. “I hate EDM,” he instructed the Chicago Tribune again in 2019. “I want to vomit it out of my nostrils. I can’t stand what it did to what I love, which is house music.”
Reflecting on these feedback in a late-2022 interview with EDM.com, he defined that they had been extra so a critique on the bastardization of the artwork type of DJing that arose from company pursuits.
“It just kind of came out of my mouth,” he mentioned. “I shouldn’t have probably said it, but once I said it, I mean, I stand by it because I’m only going to try to speak from a place of truth.”
Watch footage from Skrillex’s 2024 Lollapalooza takeover beneath.
Perry’s stage is Sonny’s stage at @lollapalooza at this time as @Skrillex does a complete stage takeover, which began along with his personal shock set to start out the day!
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— EDM.com (@TheEDMNetwork) August 3, 2024
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