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One guy got injured but Skerrit Bwoy had fun. Me too.

On thursday Electronic Beats Cologne took place with appearances by Moderat, Major Lazer, Kele of Bloc Party, Miike Snow, Turboweekend and Little Dragon. We saw the last three shows, Kele, Moderat and Major Lazer. All three ways of playing electronic music live known to mankind.

Bloc Partys Kele had a live band with him.  We tried to smoke cigarettes without being caught by the babyfaced security boy more than once every 15 minutes.

Than Moderat (=Modeselektor + Apparat) entered. Fucking great show. The three guys arraied like our funky neighbours Kraftwerk on stage with a perfectly done video installation behind them. The hip audience stood there nodding and posting Tweets while Moderat performed some chilled out quality music which had its highlights when some dubstep basslines kicked in. What does the hipster do when he flaps his notebook at night? He watches guys doing music on their laptops with a video installation in the back. Tweeting! Yeah. So cool to be uncool, guys. Ah yeah: I had a steak bun with mustard and ketchup.

After all that quality, Diplo took the stage. Without Swift, but escorted by to fine ass dancers and one crazy ass Skerrit Bwoy. Diplo played a funky CD, pushing buttons to it that made lazer noises. Skerrit Bwoy rocked the stage, dry fucking the dancer and throwing rubber pets in the audience. During the final, Diplo put on Major Lazer‘s latest song and Skerrit Bwoy tried to break the worl record for highest stage dive, breaking somebody hand instead. That’s 2:04 in the video. My celly got thrown to the ground by some rubber dragon that we wrestled down and took home afterwards. Helluva show. Loved it.

Ah there would be a forth way to perform electronic music live: DJing. But that doesnt count as “live” I guess. So you need yourself a band, videoinstallations and midi controllers or a bad ass hype man. No enjoy your weekend kids, class is closed.

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