When I first heard that Grizmatik, the up-and-coming team project of DJs GRiZ (Grant Kwiecinski) and Gramatik (Denis Jasarevic) would be playing the 1STBank Center for Halloween this year, my only reaction was:
�Meh.�
Don�t get me wrong � Grizmatik has been tearing up the EDM scene, playing sets at both Snowball Music Festival and Global Dance Festival this year alone. The duo’s�first single, �Digital Liberation is Mad Freedom,” had one of the craziest drops I have ever heard in an EDM song.
But here�s the thing � that first single is one of only two the duo has ever released. Maybe it�s just me, but when I drop money on a big concert, I expect the headliner to have a little more than a two-song repertoire.
And that�s not my only bone to pick. Halloween is the day I reserve for all the terrifying, scary stuff I normally don�t get into the rest of the year. I can�t speak for 2011, but when Skrillex came through Broomfield in 2012 with Knife Party, �it was a case of sensory overload: pillars of flames, a haunted house fa�ade flanked by graveyards, blinding lasers, massive screens projecting scenes from horror films and even a silhouette of a giant fanged mouth arching over the stage. That stage setup was made even more terrifyingly awesome by the roar of the crowd chanting along to �Internet Friends�: �You blocked me on Facebook� and now you�re going to die!�
Does Grizmatik really have what it takes to scare the crap out of 6,500 fans?
I suppose we�ll see. (Hey, I never said I wasn�t going to go.)
Contact CU Independent Entertainment Editor Sarah Elsea at Sarah.elsea@colorado.edu.