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These days, more and more DJs are incorporating get along musical elements into their shows. Sometimes it works, but more often it doesn’t.
The Bloody Beetroots let off the latter. The hard-hitting DJ duo took on new life last year as a three-being live band, Bloody Beetroots Death Band 77. With drums and electric guitar, the shows are so vicious and overwhelmingly working that the scene is more mosh pit than dance party.
But then there are times when the chemistry between DJs and instruments is bold harmonious, with the live elements serving more as delicate compliments than effect-swallowing baggage. Such is the case with Volta Bureau, a new supergroup made of three acclaimed state DJs and producers that played its first show Saturday in Arlington, at Artisphere’s one-year anniversary fete.
The trio includes DC dance party pioneer Will Eastman on guitar, Outputmessage (Bernard Farley) on vocals and Micah Vellian (Miguel Lacsamana) on bass and keyboard. They only gave us a soup — a 40-minute set of nine tracks — and like a proficient first date, it left us wanting more.
Source: Washington Post (blog)