The festival life
Junior Diem Dang gains a professional opportunity be attending the Beyond Wonderland music festival.
Los Angeles’s EDM scene was one of the major highlights of my semester.
I got into dubstep about a year ago, and I really grew to love it over the summer in Bloomington and Indy. This past fall, I spent my semester in London and got to witness the scene there, but I was disappointed.
House music was huge, and I hadn’t really explored it much yet. However, I took some classes on electronic music while in the United Kingdom, which educated me on a ton of new facts. Drum and bass is the major genre of EDM there, and it wasn’t until I’d left that I appreciated it.
When I got to Los Angeles, I made a lot of new friends in the scene, and I got to see firsthand a lot of the things I learned about from my classes in London. I was constantly mind-blown. This large genre of music I had found to love in my home state and learned about overseas was really coming to life in my new city. I got into shuffling, and I went to tons of new house and dubstep shows. I even got to go to a drum and bass show in L.A. with three of the biggest artists in the U.K. as the headliners. My British friends were freaking out — they watched it on a livestream at home.
L.A. really is a cultural city. I think the best part was seeing all these things I’d learned come together. It made it feel less like a foreign place, and more like home.