SKRILLEX: Scary Monsters Decimate A Glass Place With Deadly Bass

It's GODZILLA! It's KING KONG!

It's the ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN!
It's the LOCH NESS MONSTER!

YES, OH MY GAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!

The MECHS are coming! The CRYPTIDS are coming!
The ZOMBIES are coming! The SPACE INVADERS are coming!

THE SCARY MONSTERS ARE COMING!

YES, OH MY GAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!

CALL 911 NOWWWWWWWWWWWW!

Hide the uninitiated...at least until the NICE SPRITES arrive...

Marking his first Southern Cal performance since slaying Coachella, SKRILLEX (mild-mannered Sonny Moore by day) joined DJ sprites Porter Robinson, ZeDD, The Juggernaut and Innerpartysystem last Friday for an evening of sensory decimation.

Anticipation for this (and, really, every) performance was way, way off the charts as SKRILLEX has BLOWN UP in the last eight months to International superstardom as the current "IT" DJ.

Sonny's not a scary monster but a nice sprite having partnered up with Deadmau5' Mau5trap Recordings / Big Beat-Atlantic for both his debut SMANS album and subsequent More Monsters... Ep (released June 21).

Ground Zero for the onslaught of monster bass detonations was The Glass House in Pomona, CA with first airstrikes exploding at 8PM. Sergeant SKRILLEX strapped us in a heavily armored tank ready to seek and destroy the place at just before midnight with but one simple request; to please put the cameras down, to just enjoy yourself and keep this as a "memory" rather than a high definition slideshow.

Much like the ongoing SKRILLEX mantra as it relates to his studio work, anything goes during his live show. This throw everything-in-the-kitchen, including the sink, mentality was on full-on display as his set was a high velocity A.D.D. mash-up of dubstep, electro house, drum n bass, big beat, breakbeat, progressive trance, industrial rock, soul, reggae, hip-hop and even a taste of West African Juju.

When I listen to SKRILLEX, especially, visceral tracks like "Fucking Die" and "Kill Everybody," my brain willingly becomes hostage to an imaginary video-game landscape whereby I'm in a first-person "shooter" video game and IT REALLY IS my mission to kill everybody in the world.

YES, OH MY GAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!

SKRIL satiated the amped up throng with fan favorites "My Name Is Skrillex," "WEEKENDS!!!," "Do Da Oliphant," and "With Your Friends (Long Drive)," which he has admitted is the original song he is most proud of.

Moore also previewed some brand new material (one track without a title was instantly dubbed "Pomona") as well as his new single "Rock N' Roll (Will Take You To The Mountain)":



(Cameos by Deadmau5, Wee Man, Tommy Lee, James "Munky" Shaffer of Korn, 12th Planet, Rusko, Borgore, Benga, Dada Life, Excision, A-Trak, Steve Aoki, Spor, Diplo, The Bloody Beetroots, DatsiK, Sofi Toufa, ZeDD & Penny)

As evidenced in his Rock N' Roll.. video, SKRILLEX has been at the vortex of a tornado of activity the last few years, having done remixes for the likes of Lady Gaga ("Bad Romance" & "Alejandro"), Black Eyed Peas ("Rock That Body"), All American Rejects ("The Wind Blows"), Horse the Band ("Golden Mummy Golden Bird"), Atreyu ("In For The Kill") and Perry Farrell ("Go All The Way (Into the Twilight)" from Twilight: The Movie). He also recently produced a track for Korn ("Get Up!").

With such a deafening demand, there will be much, much more earth-shaking bass to be unleashed in the forseeable future. In fact, I have openly wished for SKRILLEX to be tapped to Super Size the Britney Spears Femme Fatale track "Big Fat Bass" (written by/featuring will.i.am).

For the encore, Moore asked for a universal showing of lighters and lit cellphones for ten seconds of silence in honor of Ryan Dunn (of Jackass fame), who died four days prior as his Porsche 911 GT3 careened off the road and hit a tree in Chester County, PA.

After the respectful reprieve, Sonny asked the gentlemen in the audience to put all the lovely ladies on their shoulders before prompting a massive sing-along to Benny Benassi's "Cinema" as a tribute to Dunn's heavenly sprite who was surely watching over us.

Adding levity to the spiritual proceeding was some crowd-surfing on top of the outstretched hands of the audience in an inflatable boat. A surreal transcendent moment (of course, captured for posterity):

SKRILLEX TOUR DATES
Jun 17 - Crown Nightclub, Las Vegas, NV
Jun 19 - River Market Pavillion, Little Rock, AR
Jun 20 - Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City, OK
Jun 22 - Rialto Theater, Tuscon, AZ
Jun 23 - Venue of Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ
Jun 24 - The Glass House, Pomona, CA
Jun 25 - Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas, NV
Jun 26 - The Graduate, San Luis Obispo, CA
Jun 27 - Knitting Factory, Reno, NV
Jun 28 - Knitting Factory, Boise, ID
Jun 29 - Wilma Theater, Missoula, MT
Jul 01 - Theater at Bar Fly, Minneapolis, MN
Jul 02 - Electric Forest Festival, Rothbury, MI
Jul 03 - London Music Hall, London, ONT
Jul 04 - BETA, Waterloo, ONT
Jul 05 - Water Street Music Hall, Rochester, NY
Jul 07 - Camp Bisco 10, Mariaville, NY
Jul 08 - House of Blues, Atlantic City, NJ
Jul 09 - Neighborhood Theater, Charlotte NC
Jul 10 - Sammy T’s Music Hall, Huntsville AL
Jul 12 - The Pageant, St. Louis MO
Jul 13 - Beaumont Club, Kansas City MO
Jul 14 - The Slowdown, Omaha NE
Jul 15 - Global Dance Festival @ Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO
Jul 19 - Tonight at Amnesia, Ibiza, Spain
Jul 30 - Global Gathering at Marston Airfield, Midlands, UK
Aug 05 - Lollapalooza @ Grant Park, Chicago, IL
Aug 06 - HARD Summer Festival at Los Angeles Historic State Park, CA
Aug 12 - World Electronic Music Festival Destiny HQ, South Algonquin, ONT
Aug 13 - Identity Festival @ First Niagara Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA
Aug 18 - Pukkelpop Fest @ Kempische Steenweg, Kiewit-Hasselt, Belgium
Aug 19 - Diabolika Restart (Cocoricò), Riccione, North Italy
Aug 23 - Tonight at Amnesia, Ibiza, Spain
Aug 27 - Creamfields at Daresbury, Halton, UK
Sep 03 - Electric Zoo Festival @ Randall's Island, New York, NY
Sep 09 - Berlin Festival at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany
Sep 17 - Austin City Limits Fest @ Zilker Park, Austin, TX
Jan 6-9 - Holy Ship! Cruise (MSC Poesia), Fort Lauderdale, FL

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(Special thanks to James Zahn at Kik Axe Music, Scott Licina from CORPKA Entertainment & Tim Smith of Blood Company)