I’ve seen plenty of rappers, DJs, and full bands that blew my mind, and they all had one thing in common, they added value to the set that went beyond their sound. It isn’t enough to just play the music right or be in time, if the musicians on stage aren’t drawing the crowd in, then it just turns into a listening party. The music coming out of the speakers was great. Every build, drop, fade, transition, and everything was on point, but the crowd lacked a leader.

There is a distinct divide in EDM, it seems to me, between producers and performers. Where some artists are great at producing tracks, but lack a captivating stage presence, there are others that may not have the most sonically impressive songs, but are lightning rods that capture pure energy and disseminate it to the ground beneath them and everything they touch. I would put Big Wild in the former.