Offering only snacks of powerful hits, DJ chose to show more themes than create the tribal bonds of letting the sound go.
Alok, the DJ and producer with over 20 million followers and listen on Instagram Spotify, opened the Mundo Stage this Saturday, at 18:00, with many signs that make it clear why he is there. There are at least three editions in which Rock in Rio has given electronic music the status of main attraction. Originally, in 1985 and 1991, electronics did not even exist as a mass force. Then, in the 2000s, he got his own tent. Now, with the audience’s tribal trance, something more powerful than the metal night itself, Alok gains relevance for entertainment.
Even though he knows how to use his expansive stage presence, Alok continually interferes with phrases like “Is anyone tired down there?” and he “takes his foot off the ground” (ok, nothing too original) and often leaves the set to walk in front of the audience – a Mundo stage looks huge just for him. There are no musicians at his side, but the two hands on the sides and the screen are trying to manage a little bit of scenography.
Alok’s rule in charge seemed clear: too much adrenaline packed into too little time. And this has two sides. The cool thing: he played for the audience all the time, out of breath, turning the track into a 90s disco with The rhythm of the night connected to work on it because, two seconds later, everything turns into a 2020s rave, with the bass much heavier than a psychedelic trance. The bad: his desire to show an incessant and frenetic arsenal leaves everything too condensed, too affected, without the possibility of reaching the point of the mantra that any Baixo Augusta track guarantees. You can’t hear very short fragments of explosives like joining Deep inside, Jungle bay And Destination Calabria or Sometimes you move your body And Startwith which it joins Sweet Child O Mine. Everything is too good to be just pills. Being in charge is always a choice and Alok chooses to show it more. It’s a hot, but discontinued set, and maybe that’s a format issue. The Mundo stage only admits the show, not the support. And a DJ who lets the sound roll is a support player. His place is on the stage New dance orderelectronics.
What Alok does is show, not DJing, and this becomes clear in the middle of the show, when he asks the Rock in Rio production to turn off all the lights in the city of rock. “I promise it will be worth it,” he says, but the idea is bigger than the effect. Alok asks people to turn on the lights on their cell phones and turn them up and down at his command. He becomes a sea of dancing lights, but somewhat uncoordinated.
All very well. Alok had already done a great show and decided to put it on Crackland illusion, a theme that had to be sung there, in front of many young people, to warn about the illusions of the use of crack and the hell of those in cracolândia. An affective and paternal moment. Afterwards, he asks the audience to sing Vale Vale with him, and the scene of the arms raised with so much energy is priceless.
Source: Terra
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