In its second iteration the EDM-heavy music festival, Heatwave Music Festival stayed true to form, bridging all the senses for a true spectacle of art and music on Chicago’s lakefront.
Debuting in 2022 in Chicago’s Douglass Park, Heatwave seemingly swooped in at the perfect time – filling a gap from the sudden departure of React’s “Spring Awakening Festival.”
With a number of successful festivals under their belt, Auris Presents’ Heatwave Music Festival proves to no longer be the new kid on the block, but a bonafide music festival – setting a new standard for dance music festivals in Chicago for years to come.
Behind the scenes: a sneak peak into touring DJs lives
Performing on Saturday at Heatwave Music Festival, we caught up with Sidepiece as they arrived in Chicago to their performance at Heatwave. If you’ve ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes, here’s a little glimpse into tour life.
Heatwave Music Festival: a photo gallery of what you missed
On just the fourth ever release via 18437, Nico Lahs dishes out three very hazy ones using his NLXLB moniker. All are brilliant in their own right but the track, “Dazed Dreams” goes the extra mile with luscious, minor chords the are simply divine.
This super bouncy tune may sound similar to “Loud Places” by Jamie XX but it’s actually a remix of a ’70s afro-funk classic by Idris Muhammad. It’s a gift that really just keeps on giving and giving.
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Just three months after he unleashed his sparkling debut album on Heist Recordings, the Bristol-born producer known as Crackazat is back on the label with more fresh material on the jazz-house tip. “Demucha” is the E.P.’s title track which received Essential New Tune treatment from Pete Tong this past Friday but “We Know” is the one that really does it for me.
Fresh on the dance music production scene is Yannick Roberts, a Dutch artist who makes their premiere on none other than Freerange with four deep Detroit cuts that all carry their own weight.
Since Travis Emmons released his cover of “Redbone” earlier this year, it’s been a hit on dance-floors all over the world so it’s only fitting that it get a second life in the form of a fresh, new remix from the label-boss himself: Glasgow Underground‘s own, Kevin McKay.
Nic Fanciulli does a class job here of sampling the ’92 prog-house classic, “Your Touch” by R-2001.
