Camp Bisco 9 gave me and my co. a run for our freakin money. DOPE AS SHIT! Bottom Line.
Lets get right into it.
Bisco offered a great combination of groups I was familiar with and complete unknowns, there’s always something enigmatic and adventurous about the unknown. Naturally, we went to check one out asap.
My Bisco team and I, ( fellow writer/photographer Chris Morgan + our beautiful groupies Ayanna and Sarah T) ventured to the dance tent that was chalk full of ragin DJ’s from different backgrounds and countries spinnin all weekend from noon and until 6am. The first we tied up our dancing shoes for, was a group called Orchard Lounge.
OL is comprised of three DJs, Ben Silver and husband/wife duo Spencer ad Bethany Lokken. They are different from many DJ groups because of the array of sounds and styles they put into each mix. They run a sort of tag-team set; the three taking turns working it alone and then with either one or both other members. They can hit you with a big time bass-dropping, house beat, getting everyone on their feet, which will then blend seamlessly into a space-disco more downtempo song, all without losing the dancers to the “standstillers.”
The wife/husband combo really had a special thing going on; all present, ( accounts from many different sources) could feel the vibes they were making from each other, which in turn made for some gosh darn good dance music. No other day was the dance tent that sweaty by 4 in the afternoon. Great warm up to get into the right groove for the evening/entire weekend.
After a brief intermission, mostly to gather some energy to insure my survival into the wee hours of the next day, it was time for THE DISCO BISCUITS. With out this glorious band, I wouldn’t have just had the raddest weekend of my life, I wouldn’t being writing this piece, in fact I’d probably be face down, dead, in a ditch somewhere. Thank You Disco Biscuits.
In the summer of ’99 (“The Nine-Nine” as Bisco All-Stars know it), The Disco Biscuits headlined a one-day festival, then known as Melstock. One fellow awoke at sunrise, looked around at what had occurred the night before and stated “The Disco Biscuits should have our own festival.” Long story short, ten years later here we are at Camp Bisco 9.
The Biscuits came out for their first set (first out of six for weekend, and no I didn’t go to them all), to a jam packed, screaming their lungs out audience, and they gave us ALL they had to give. Let me add that this was their only set in which their fans didn’t choose the songs, (online somehow, I had no idea until yesterday) so they knew they had to bring it. Guess what? They brought it.
They played like they weren’t going to play 5 more times in the next 48 hours, shit they played like this was the last music we might ever hear again. Opening with “House Dog Party Favor” followed by such songs as “Crickets” and “The Great Abyss” which gave way to a monster non-stop roller-coaster ride concluding with the only song off their new album Planet Anthem “On Time”, ( which is downloadable for free at their website http://www.discobiscuits.com)
This is their festival so I was expecting something big, but nothing like what i witnessed day 1 of Bisco. As of Wednesday night I did not consider myself a Disco Biscuits fan, listened to some songs before yada yada. Minutes into that first set, wheres a pen? sign me up for the fan club.
They were the starter gun for the race, that was my heart, body and ears, which would be running wildly ramped, like a decathlon, all weekend long.
Not to mention they performed the not so easy task of a more than smooth ,( like an operator) transition into the next act.. Oh how Pretty the Lights…