Our first thought waking up this morning was, “Is there a rewind button on this past weekend so we can hit play again?” And judging by the incoming tweets, we know we aren’t the only ones who had the same thought either.
Even if we can’t rewind, we’d still like to give many, many thanks to all of you who met us at Sam Houston Race Park for a ridiculously wicked weekend, marking the return of Texas’ biggest Halloween festival for dance music, Something Wicked. Everyone came ready to have fun and dance under the stars and we especially loved seeing your creative Halloween costumes and totems as well as those Wicked kandi accessories.
It’s safe to say nearly every inch of our bodies are aching and sore from dancing and walking – but it is/was totally worth it. Over the course of the two-day event, we met strangers who are now our friends, became part of a vibrant synergy interconnecting our dance floor of thousands, and created memories that will last forever. The fact we did it all that while dancing to track selections from many of our favorite artists is the just the wicked icing over-top a devious cake.
There are countless performances that we loved on both October 25th and October 26th, and for a variety of different reasons too! On Saturday, PandaFunk leader, Deorro, delivered an insane set, overflowing with energy and had corresponding visuals that were just as intense. Things went from #TURNT to #PLURNT once Flosstradamus took to the stage, proving the #HDYNATION was well-represented during the Wicked weekend.
Unabashedly pushing the tempo during his relentless, kick drum-driven set, HeadHunterz pace left little room for error but always left enough room to dance. With help from his beloved signature low-end aesthetic, Bassnectar’s closing set gave everyone in the crowd a full-on bass massage. Every track he played pummeled through the speakers like a triumphant earthquake of sound that you could feel down to your bones.
There was a perpetual feeling of love and unity over at the Mystic Meadows stage as the #trancefamily gathered to see pioneers of the genre and its taste-makers like Ferry Corsten, Cosmic Gate and Simon “Psy” Patterson.
For Sunday, there were more treats than tricks as our day two was stacked with performances by breakout and veteran house heroes, championing nearly every sub genre associated to the four-to-the-floor beat. The Beatport stage hosted deep house purveyors like G house connoisseurs Amine Edge & Dance, but if you’re on a future house or future bass tip, then the performances of My Nu Leng, Bixel Boys, Tchami, and Michael Brun were not to be missed. Kaskade to us on a melodic journey as he closed out the festival with a bang bringing waves in our atmosphere with fireworks!
With two days of continuous talent on three stages, our feet are definitely happy to go in recovery mode now that it’s time for this year’s event to come to a close – but fortunately, we’ll see you all in 363 days. Once again, we want to sincerely thank each and every one of you who came out and made this Something Wicked the biggest and most-devious edition yet. There’s no way we could’ve done it without you!
