From seven o’clock until midnight, working as a rotating d.j. crew, Skrillex, Four Tet, and Fred again.. kept 17,000 people dancing, even as they carried on a musical conversation about what dance music is, and how it works.
; the track, which featured dramatic builds and drops , became one of Bieber’s biggest hits, which is saying something, and it showed listeners that Skrillex was no longer synonymous with screaming chaos. Last Friday, the day before the show, Skrillex released his second solo album, “Quest for Fire,” which includes collaborations with both Fred again.. and Four Tet, and which bears only faint traces of the classic Skrillex sound.
This, it turns out, is a big and perhaps growing category: dance music for people who don’t happen to be dancing at the moment. Fred again.., who is twenty-nine, had a successful career as a pop producer—there’s aof him in the studio with Ed Sheeran, creating “Bad Habits.
It was funny, at Madison Square Garden, to see Skrillex, known for headlining performances at huge music festivals, alongside Fred again.., a master of homebound house music, finding common ground. They returned a few times during the show to “Rumble,” a thunderous collaboration from “Quest for Fire” that features some perfectly ominous rapping by Flowdan, a pioneer of the genre known as grime, which flourished in England in the early two-thousands.
Four Tet, the oldest of these three, is by virtually any measure the least popular, and perhaps the most widely respected: connoisseurs who disdain Skrillex’s brash confections and Fred again..’s tuneful elegies can probably find something to love in Four Tet’s obsessive attention to timbre and atmosphere. And on this night he served an important role: he was the troublemaker, there to keep everyone slightly uncomfortable.
It’s not hard to figure out why Skrillex has gravitated away from the dubstep that he was once known for. When it comes to dancing, there tends to be an inverse correlation between intensity and duration: styles that inspire slam-dancing generally don’t work so well if you want to keep the party going all night. For any d.j. who wants to make five hours fly by, it is hard to improve upon the steady, versatile pulse of house music.
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