The California DJ and producer unfurled the first of two straight sold-out Halloween weekend shows for a costume-bedecked throng of exuberant fans at DeltaPlex Arena. (Photo gallery)
EDM Marvel: Bassnectar at DeltaPlex Arena on Friday night. (Photo/Anthony Norkus)
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Exactly six years ago, almost to the day, emerging San Francisco electronica/dubstep hero Lorin Ashton, aka Bassnectar, rolled into The Intersection in Grand Rapids and mesmerized — nay, hypnotized — a sold-out crowd of about 1,000 with his heavy EDM wizardry.
His West Michigan audience of rabid fans hasn’t stopped growing since.
On Friday night, for the second year in a row, Bassnectar returned to Walker’s DeltaPlex Arena to electrify a throng of 6,000-plus to kick off a Halloween weekend in riotous, laser-enhanced fashion with boisterous fans — many of them costume-bedecked — reveling in the dance-fueled EDM spectacle.
In a word: “Insane.” At least, that’s the way Local Spins photographer Anthony Norkus described it.
Touring behind his 10th and most recent album, “Unlimited,” Bassnectar will ramp up his “sonic collage” all over again tonight (Saturday), with a second straight sold-out show at DeltaPlex Arena, proving perhaps that EDM has “unlimited” staying power as an uber-popular, fan-inspiring musical art form.
Paper Diamond opened Friday’s show; check out all of the images of the concert and the resplendent costumes worn by fans below.
PHOTO GALLERY: Bassnectar at DeltaPlex Arena
Photos by Anthony Norkus
