Robot Rok

This Friday night, although arriving late after navigational troubles, a aficionado of electronic music and I attended the Robot Rok concert at Ourspace. We arrived late, but only to find out that the equipment was still being set up, as there was a vast array of speakers, lights, smoke machines, lasers, and so forth.

The DJs displayed distinctive styles, one preferred an ethereal echo sound, while one preferred to hum. This sometimes created a hauntingly ambient effect. Some other songs were highly percussive with a reverberating bass drum to drive it. The audience was often quite participatory, dancing in erratic ways to the electronic sounds they heard.

We left before 11pm, but that was due to exhaustion more than anything else. They tour frequently around the Charlottesville/DC area, so I'll make sure to attend another one of their concerts, soon...