The Do Lab done did it again! Don’t let the Orange County address fool you. The lush scenic landscape of the Cleveland National Forest and the shimmering siren’s call of Irvine Lake set the backdrop for this one-of-a-kind play-fest that is truly a portal of possibilities.
Lightning in a Bottle is a celebration of Art, Music, Performance, Sustainability, and Life. From the minute the smiling Mad Max-inspired ticket person gives you your wristband and winks you their well-wishes you are in the embrace of the Do Lab and let me tell you they do you right!
This unique southern California festival brought out the mystics, beckoned the dance floor junkies, invaded Willy Wonka’s costume closet, and lined up an onslaught of indefatigable beats. The musical madness for this year’s LIB was ravenously eclectic and seductively diverse.
The line up featured familiar Los Angeles favs The Glitch Mob and KCRW soul brotha’ Jeremy Sole mixed with underground names like EOTO and Justin Martin. Friday night, Apparat delivered a beautiful set best described as compositional architecture—cinematic and minimal. Songs like, “A Bang In the Void” and “Ash/Black Veil” wafted over the crowd like the soundtrack to a slow motion scene in coming of age movie—at once epic and nostalgic.
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