Revolution | 12.31.08 | San Francisco
By Team JamBase Jan 13, 2009 • 5:09 pm PST

Revolution :: 12.31.08 :: 1015 Folsom :: San Francisco, CA
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Showcasing over 35 DJs spanning the globe in four rooms over twelve hours, 1015 was a packed house of organized electro and dub step chaos. This bustling barrage of bass and body moving beats created such a fiery fervor inside that along every wall, every little nook and cranny, there were sweat-stained shirts, smiles and enough pheromones that you could surely smell the sex seeping through the walls. Going off without even the slightest of hitches, the party lasted well into the morning sunlight.
Undoubtedly, Revolution was anchored by the mash-up master Diplo. Regardless of the ever-increasing multitude of accolades being thrown his way in 2008, Diplo’s return to San Francisco and the much-anticipated debut of his self-proclaimed “Subterranean Ghetto Funk” was far more impressive than could’ve been imagined. And it wasn’t just the globetrotting champion of bass music that awoke eardrums and created moist sexiness at the event. There was the exclusive appearance of Jesse Rose, the post-modern purveyor of house music, as well as dub step wonderboys Plastician, Kromestar, MRK1 and DZ and 20-odd other acts poised to keep the speakers a blazing all night long.
Revolution’s vast array of artists was just too much to put onto paper, so I vied instead to highlight several of the most prominent performers who produced the colorful mélange inside 1015’s shimmering walls.
Diplo
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Random Rab
Mr. Super Smooth was yet again, super smooth. Donning a fresh, new short haircut and his always-sultry style, Random Rab, one of the bill’s late additions, capably combined a remarkable blend of break beats and bold samples into a colorful concoction of West Coast wizardry. It’s in Rab that I saw the hugs between strangers, the high fives on the dance floor and a swarm of sexy people who refused to stop dancing.
Bay Area Bass
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Jesse Rose
I have to admit I’m not that keen on house music. While in years past, I’ve dipped my ears into a few choice cuts, there has never been too much to the genre that’s caught my attention. At 1015, Jesse Rose certainly did just that and with it, brought me straight to the dance floor with some of that trademark, future reaching house that’s influenced so many acts since he arrived on the scene. While I didn’t stay for too long (considering there were three other rooms to juggle), I was rather impressed by Rose’s ability to work a room and make the party pop.
Beats Antique
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Plastician, Kromestar, MRK1 & DZ
San Francisco sure does love its dub step. Luckily for Revolution attendees, four of the most prominent dub step DJs and producers in the world came together at 4 a.m. for one of the most chest-thumping, sweat-pouring moments of abundant bass I’ve ever witnessed. Dirty. Evil. Seductive. Just a few adjectives to describe the Main Room in the early morning hours during this all-star set, which was the kind of late night performance where you wear your sunglasses, bring a towel and prepare to have your insides thumped right out of your chest. ‘Nuff said.
After over eight hours inside 1015, it was time to say goodbye to the bass and a happy hello to 2009’s first dawn. Revolution was everything I wanted and more, offering an eclectically astounding lineup of some of the world’s premier electronic DJs and producers in an aesthetically unbelievable setting with some of the best people to be surrounded by as one starts a New Year off properly.
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