Life In Color Dropped Heavy Bass Music from Diplo, DJ Diesel, and More [Event Review]

Life In Color landed this previous weekend in Miami, Florida’s artwork district Wynwood. For this 12 months’s newest iteration Life In Color (extra colloquially often known as LIC), the folks behind the “world’s largest paint get together” gathered their paint cannons and their distributors to have their pink, inexperienced, yellow, blue, and orange paint bottles restocked and able to flip a music pageant right into a real-life Splatoon get together. With Bang vitality drinks as their newest sponsor, LIC enlisted the likes Diplo, What So Not, Said the Sky, Ray Volpe, Wooli and even Shaquille O’Neal bringing his DJ Diesel presence to the 305.

Guests entered LIC to seek out $5 bottles paint available with artists making murals and DJs throwing down in-your-face, bass bangers. Some had been dripping from being as near the entrance the stage as doable whereas others had been adorned with small splashes shade on their white t-shirts. There was even one pageant goer in attendance sporting a panda masks that was turning increasingly pink because the pageant raged on.

One this 12 months’s most fascinating aspects about this 12 months’s LIC lineup is that the majority the artists work with and/or carry out with bass music. All these principal stage headliners spewed riddim, dubstep, and entice anthems to an viewers asking for as a lot bass as their was paint. From the extra melodic and experimental nature artists like What So Not and Said the Sky to the neck-breaking, adrenaline-pumping nature from the likes Ray Volpe going back-to-back with Wooli and DJ Diesel. And every efficiency was stable. I used to be stunned to see how hyped the group was when Shaq would demand the group to begin a mosh pit. At that point, three opened up concurrently and mayhem ensued.

However, there was a second smaller stage often known as the “Secret House Party” nestled right into a nook semi-dilapidated Wynwood warehouses. Here, native Miami-based expertise like Lucas Larvenz, Dr. Clutch, and DENO dropped four-to-the-floor hearth. Meanwhile, a crew expert shuffle dancers had been surrounded by the partying crowd. Even Gabby J David, famend shuffle dancer, made an look flexing on the concrete dancefloor. It was like a legendary 1990s rave however up to date by 2019’s requirements.

Life In Color has modified so much since its inception. After a number of school paint events took f within the early 2000s, these organizers envisioned a better scope that these paint events might have. From there, they created Dayglow which hosted occasions in Miami’s nightclubs and finally touring with the idea for school crowds to get together throughout the nation. After Dayglow was purchased by SFX Entertainment (now often known as LiveStyle) in 2012, they rebranded as Life In Color and commenced to have bigger lineups. This included starring headliners reminiscent of Calvin Harris, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Steve Aoki, Marshmello, Alesso and lots of extra. By 2016, LIC made a brand new dwelling in Wynwood the place it has been internet hosting the flagship paint get together ever since.

The night concluded with a prolonged and diverse set from Diplo. The Mad Decent label boss and hit producer has been a longtime headliner for LIC from their earliest time as Dayglow acting at their occasions as a solo artist or as half teams like Major Lazer and Jack Ü. In different phrases, Diplo was and is probably the most applicable act that might ever headline Life In Color ever. His set contained mixtures songs just like the Sheck Wes anthem “Mo Bamba” with Zomboy’s remix “Follow” by Bro Safari in addition to his personal hits like “Waist Time” with Autoerotique or “Get It Right” with MØ. Diplo closed out the pageant with a crowd left behind happy from a day head-banging, mosh-pitting, and normal paint-related debauchery.

Overall, Life In Color 2019 was a stellar get together. All the headliners carried out to a crowd gobbling up each tune, remix, and mashup blasting by way of their audio system. The crowd obtained their towels and dried themselves all of the moist colours splattered throughout their our bodies earlier than hopping into their vehicles and Ubers. Even although this 12 months sacrificed selection in its lineup throughout the fered artists, LIC put collectively a constant lineup bass-focused artists who've sufficient character to face other than one another. It can be fascinating to see if LIC doubles down on sticking to being a bass music pageant or one which switches to different genres like home, hip-hop, or Latin music. Either manner, Life In Color will all the time be the “world’s largest paint get together” it doesn't matter what music’s internet hosting the present.