BLEventures

Dubstep Takes Over Old San Juan

Disclaimer: My camera broke….sadly, in one of the Christmas parties I attended these vacations so please bare with me until I get another one. For now, I will be stealing some videos and pictures from friends. Of course, I’ll be giving them their credit. 

More than 10 THOUSAND people attended this event. Never would I have thought that Skrillex would be that big of a deal in Puerto Rico. Well, by the looks of it, he is. With the intention of tailgating and thinking that not a lot of people would arrive on time, me and my friends arrived at 8pm to find ourselves with MAJOR traffic. The main parking lot was FULL and the “second option” for parking, which is a garage, was full too. WHAT THE HELL?! 

After about 1 hour of trying to meet up and find a place where we could park, we parked…well, a bit far. It was, easy, a 20-25 minute walk. There were cars all over Old San Juan and nobody could find anywhere to park. When we finally arrive to the entrance, of course, there’s a huge ass line and…. well, of course, being the people we are, we cut it. Don’t judge.

WE’RE FINALLY IN. This place is packed and it wasn’t even full yet. A LOT of tweens were in this event which I don’t even know how they’re even allowed in but… whatever. We grab our beers/water and walk into the crowd. There were so many people, you had a hard time actually breathing fresh air! We arrived and one of Skrillex’s opening DJ’s was playing, Alvin Risk. He was… well, alright. After Mr. Risk, ZEDD played, which is another DJ that is part of Skrillex’s crew. He was pretty awesome. We even had the pleasure of a little performance when this guy threw himself into the crowd. It was wild. ZEDD was the perfect warm-up for the main event.

At midnight, sharp, Mr. Skrillex himself stepped up into the DJ Booth and the whole place went crazy. He played ALL of his hits and remixed them in his own particular way. Some of them were Cinema, Kill Everybody, My Name is Skrillex, First of the Year, Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites, Kyoto, Levels (Remix), Voltage and many more. I’ll be posting up a video soon and you can see for yourself. The crowd even had the opportunity to be featured in the recording of his new song’s video, Kyoto. He had played it during the night but at the end of the event, played it again so we could show him what we’ve got for the video. At 2:15am, the event finished. 

Skrillex later tweeted “Big shout out to the 10K people who showed up last night. Easily one of the biggest solo headliners to date. Love Puerto Rico” 

It was definitely an INSANE event. Dubstep, personally, is music to basically go crazy to at one of these events. All you feel like doing is head banging, dancing & even maybe a little bit of moshing? If you like Dubstep and like Skrillex, YOU HAVE to see him LIVE. No questions asked. It was crazy, I was dead after the event and I don’t regret it. 

Xoxo 

- B

Photo

I’ll give you a hint for my next blog post. Stay tuned. I’m so ready for this. 

Video

As promised, here is a video of DayGlow Blu in San Juan, PR!

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[Btw - The video editing is amateur ‘cause I don’t know how to edit that well. I think it came out pretty good! Enjoy!]

DayGlow…more like NightGlow

I’m excited that this is the first event I’m writing about because it’s an event I definitely enjoyed to the max. I gotta let my followers know that I’m a house music fan and I REALLY enjoy attending house music events. Why? The energy. As you enter an event quite like this one, you forget about your everyday problems like your job, your parents, your friends, your marriage… anything. Everyone kind of unites (I know, cheesy) and just…dance. It’s positive and awesome energy all around you; it really is amazing. But, I promise all my posts WON’T only be about house music events.

So, What is DayGlow? It’s a electronic music paint party event that tours around the United States. It’s filled with music, funky décor, blacklights, strobe & LED lights and well…lots and lots of paint. This year, it had it’s “Blu” theme. Blu meaning “Beats. Love. Unity”. 

This event was on Saturday, December 18th, 2011 at Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, PR. Hometown, baby!

I went with my friend Andrea to this event [shout out!]. We were ready with our glowing bracelets, earrings, necklaces, rings…you name it. The first thing they do as we get to the entrance is tell us that we can’t have any of our nifty “jewelry” on so… we had to take everything off. Bummer. We finally enter the arena and it’s f r e e z i n g. The reason why it was so cold was because we had an ice skating rink under us, just with a leather-like cover over it. We buy ourselves a beer and walk over to where the crowd is dancing.

At midnight was the big “she-bang”. With a countdown of 10 seconds for the paint, the crowd heard these words: “Beats. Love. Unity. Tonight we paint the world blue. Tonight we celebrate Dayglow”. Paint & confetti blew everywhere while we were dancing, singing and creating art with our bodies.  There were people with bottles of paint (included in the VIP tickets) and staff members with paint guns. I was a bit disappointed though. The trailer of this event promises you much more paint than what we had at the event but… things still got pretty messy at this party. At one point, there were LED lighted robots walking around the stage while the DJ’s were playing. The opening DJ was David Solano (http://www.davidsolanomusic.com) that played pretty awesome and the main event was Robbie Rivera (http://www.robbierivera.com).

It was definitely an experience and I’m glad I went. It’s just one more for the list of many events to come. If DayGlow comes to your city, make sure you check it out if you’re into house music, paint and dance. Now… enough of me yapping, here are some more pictures! Soon, I’ll post a video with a compilation of videos I took at the event. Stay Tuned!

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Xoxo.

 - B

What is BLEventures?

First of all, I’d like to give you a warm welcome to my first BLEventures blog post. I bet you’re asking yourself what’s the purpose of this blog. Well, I’ll let you in on the secret. My name is Beatriz [Bee-uh-tris] & I am a girl who LOVES attending events, especially music events & concerts. If I tell you the list of concerts I’ve been to in my life, you would have to stop reading. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Production & Marketing of Special Events & NOW, I’m doing a post-graduate certification in Event & Meeting Planning in Miami, FL. What an effin’ handful, huh?

Forget the education stuff, let’s get to the real reason why you’re reading this . Here, I’m gonna give you the inside scoop of different events I will be attending in my home country, Puerto Rico, and my current city, MIAMI. I’m going to try and critique events as well as possible, from an event producer’s point of view & of course, a guest’s point of view. I’ll be attending some pretty cool events so STAY TUNED.

I’ll also talk about events I’ll work at, since, of course, I am in that recent graduate stage where you want to find the job you’ve always wanted but have to settle with the small stuff. It’s all in the process of becoming B I G and that’s exactly what I’ll be. 

So… Are you ready? FOLLOW my blog and experience the events…with me.