The second day of We Belong Here, Central Park on October 11th, started with a rainstorm, threatening audiences for the day to come. Thankfully, clearer skies blew in and a stacked lineup drew crowds out to Central Park for another day of EDM.
With a quarter inch of water across the dancefloor, festival goers decked themselves out in heeled boots and coats to listen to VNSSA, whose remix-heavy set focused on easily danceable songs. Notably, and to the crowd’s delight, her remixes of Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit and Closer by Nine Inch Nails were top-notch, allowing the audience to catch the original songs under VNSSA’s changes. The set was solid with a constant upbeat base that drove dancing across a waterlogged dance floor.
Following VNSSA was Wax Notice. His set was the most mainstream EDM of the day, featuring a combination of hyperpop melodies and bass-filled deep house that made your bones shake. At the end of his set, Wax pulled a switch up, playing a few mixes over a few salsa songs, which the audience seemed to love as they shifted from shuffling to salsaing.
Finally, Porter Robinson took to the stage to close out Saturday. The artist opened with his older, more aggressive, industrial, and glitch-filled music. Quickly, however, Robinson switched to a much smoother vibe – running a Daft Punk Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger remix before switching again to pop-punk remixes, before finally moving into his SMILE era work.
Listening to Porter Robinson felt like listening to a playlist of your favorite songs from the last 20 years, with an EDM twist. Somehow Robinson was able to throw in an Avicii tribute (with his own dubstep take), and a remix of Basehunter’s DotA. Impressively, Porter Robinson made the crowd feel nostalgic, want to dance, and scream their heads off, all at the same time.
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