Cheer up! Valentine's Day is over.
Stop writing love haikus in your own blood on the bathroom mirror. You're better than that. It's time to pick up the pieces of your hollow, desolate love life and let the music make you whole again. It's time to dance your troubles away to the soulful tunes of Big Gigantic! Not convinced? Well, here's five reasons you should put some pants on and grab a ticket while they're still available.
4. Big Gigantic's Dominic Lalli's Saxophone & Drummer Jeremy Salken
Nowhere in electronic dance music can you find a live saxophone player on stage except at a Big Gigantic show.
The first time I heard Big Gigantic, I had just emerged onto the floor of the Hampton Coliseum after a 13-hour, 615-mile odyssey down the east coast from Boston to Virginia for BassLights 2012. However we didn't know the prize that would lie on the otherside of the 10 mile backup to get to the venue. The very first sounds that washed over us were the funky Saxophone rhythms of Big Gigantic. Every ounce of stress I had been feeling up until that moment dissipated, like vapor, and I was carried away on the soaring notes from Dominic Lalli's saxophone.
Dominic & Jeremy combined to unleash a wall of sound that feels both unhinged and flowing. Lalli's sax weaves through every tune, guiding the melody, while Salken's drumming drives alongside the thumping, bass-heavy beats.
It's incredibly refreshing to hear two instruments wielded so masterfully over funky groovey electronic dance beats. For evidence of the honeyed funkiness, see "Sky High," a track that features one of Lalli's most soulful sax solos over a beat that thumps with bass.
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