“If Coachella and Burning Man had a kid, that kid would be Lightning in a Bottle.”

For those who have been to the first two festivals mentioned above, Lightning in a Bottle co-founder Jesse Flemming’s description of his four day party in the Santa Barbara-adjacent woods makes perfect sense.

However, should you have no reference point for either, please allow me to elaborate.

If a tatted-up, crooked visor, camo-cargo shorts and wife-beater wearing LA-club kid got dragged from LAX to an afterparty somewhere in Echo Park and managed to seduce a girl wearing a billowy, seven-layer, trinket-laden homemade dress and an aqua-colored bandanna covering her is-it-braids-or-dreads? hairdo…

Their child would grow up with a penchant for sustainable living and skull-shattering, filthy-ass, electro-crunk basslines.  Their child would eat a bag of mushrooms, frolic in the woods for a while with a hula-hoop and a pair of stilts, and then come back and set the CDJ’s on fire.  Their child would be Lightning in a Bottle.

Get it now?

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