Main Stage is a heartfelt homage to the heyday of Big Room house music at massive EDM festivals like the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, EDC Chicago (RIP), and Ultra Music Festival in Miami. Simplicity commands immense power, and from 2013–2015, you could experience it in its purest form, louder than Hell, with top-shelf lighting and pyrotechnics, and a whole lot of energised people eager to eat it all up. With changing popular taste and the questionable future of big festivals in the United States, it is nice to look back fondly on a very special moment in time, exemplary of the zeitgeist and a generation coming of age.
From a more practical perspective, if you’re going to write a cadence whose main bass drum groove is just quarter notes, you should really only do it once, and you’d better knock it out of the park. So if anyone asks about that crazy beat your line is playing, just call it ID – ID.
