Just as rave culture was making its first waves in the UK in 1988, a mad English kid named Lee Reynolds rode his BMX bike across the Atlantic to Los Angeles, carrying with him dreams of big air and sunny skies. Read more
Do LaB have announced the musical lineup for the 20th anniversary of Lightning in a Bottle, North Americaâs original boutique festival taking place Memorial Day Weekend at Buena Vista Lake in Southern California this May 24-29, 2023. LIB will present an array of top-tier music curation, creative art and immersive environments, and educational classes and workshops â a furthering of its 20 year mission to inspire creativity and foster interconnection. Read more
After three years off due to the pandemic, Lightning in Bottle is back and bigger than ever. Lightning in a Bottle is the pinnacle 5-day event for The Do Lab, of Coachella‘s famed Do Lab stage whereby many great electronic artists got their start. Homegrown in California, Lightning in a Bottle moved to Lake Buena Vista Recreational area in 2019 and occurs each year over Memorial Day Weekend. The sprawling, multi-day festival sits across a large venue full of art and sound
Do LaB, originators and creators of North Americaâs premiere multi-faceted boutique festival Lightning in a Bottle, announced its Compass music, learning, and culture programming. LIBâs Compass offers opportunities for attendees to gain life changing lessons to bring back to their day to day lives through a series of talks, workshops, and performances from world-renowned visionaries, experts, and thought-leaders during the Memorial Day weekend festival this May 25-30.
Lightning in a Bottleâs Compass environments host an array of learning and culture programming that aligns with the core principles of the festival – creating space for connection, expression, and community. Highlighted talks and discussions among this yearâs programming include Regenerating Soil with Microbes, Cryptocurrency: The Ownership Economy, Queering the Liminal, Technology of Prayer, Fire Adapted Communities: Building A Wildfire Resilient Future, Transforming Fulfilling Prophecies into Love, Resilience of Chamorro Food and more.
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Compass has once again curated a top-tier selection of thought leaders and experts to lead attendees on a thought-provoking journey during their festival experience. This includes the Tejon Indian Tribe Dance Troupe, 2x best-selling author and founder/CEO of 4BiddenKnowledge Billy Carson, holistic wellness expert Queen Afua of the Sacred Woman Rites of Passage program, and Racing Extinction collaborators and digital artists Louie Psihoyos and Travis Threlkel.
Some of the key innovative workshops will include Art of Benevolent Leadership in Ritual Community, Psychedelic JEDI Training, Hope in the Anthropocene, Ceremonial Chants & Medicine Music, Remote Viewing for Psychic Development, and No Means No – How to (Not) Talk to Cops.
Learning Kitchen returns as LIBâs culinary hub at the festival, empowering through demonstrations and tastings. Among the Learning Kitchen programming is Regenerative Soil Practices & Juice with Vive Organic, Praise Cheezus: Elevated Nut Cheese with Chef Perla & Elevation Eating, Slow Food & Sourdough Pizza with Zach + Kayla of Belovedâs Bread, Green Keto: Bye Bye Sugar Cravings with Katelyn Louise of Pure Joy Planet, and Curry Deconstructed: Ayurveda & Spices with Cristina Urioste & Rasa Foods.
Lightning in a Bottle has also partnered with organizations that continue to emphasize the idea of worldwide connection and well-being. These partners include Buckminster Fuller Institute, Academy of Oracle Arts, Ecological Renewal Alliance, Fungi Foundation, Ritual Community, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), and Life-Force Academy. Throughout the year, festival attendees can get involved with these partners who take direct action in alignment with the foundational ethos that Lightning in a Bottle is built on.
Artists announced on the musical lineup for The Compass stage include a DJ set by electronic-crossover favorite SG Lewis, Danish electronic trio and internationally celebrated live act WhoMadeWho, German DJ and producer Parra For Cuva, emotive and melancholic techno producer Christian Löffler, forward-thinking multi-genre producer Full Crate, Andre Power and Sasha Marie of Soulection, ethereal electronic musician Ayla Nereo, 29 Palms from Ooah and Boreta of The Glitch Mob, neo-psychedelic world music band Simrit, multi-instrumentalist and DJ/producer Aabo, Afro-Latina DJ/producers and stylish twins Coco & Breezy, and many more.
Lightning in a Bottle defies the typical definition of a music festival by holding participation at its core. Itâs a place where lifelong friendships, relationships, and memories are forged, a temporary home where excitement, fun, and surprise wait around every corner. Itâs this type of immersive and interactive educational and cause-driven programming that helps to foster the sense of community that truly makes LIB an experience like no other.
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Today Do LaB, originators and creators of the boutique festival experience Lightning in a Bottle, have announced the phase two music lineup for the eventâs 2022 return to Buena Vista Lake in Southern California. For five days on Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-30, LIB will gather a unique blend of torchbearers from an array of genres and origins to its renowned creative tapestry.
Do LaB, the California-based production company, has announced the lineup for their boutique festival experience Lightning in a Bottle (LiB) for its return in 2022. Hailed as one of the premiere immersive music and arts festivals in North America, LiB will take place over five full days on Memorial Day Weekend, May 25 – 30, 2022 at Buena Vista Lake, California. Read more
Lightning in a Bottle, a global leader in boutique festival experiences, has revealed the lineup for its 2019 event, touching down at its new home of Buena Vista Lake in Central California, May 8-13.
Over the past fifteen years, Lightning in a Bottle has crafted its musical journey by bringing superstar talent and rising acts alike into the eventâs singular communal experience. The result is a gathering unique to Lightning In A Bottle, a collaborative community of musicians, fans, artists, adventurers and the Do LaBâs globally renowned production prowess.
The 2019 LIB lineup is topped by the eventâs flagship Lightning Stage which sees a finely tuned billing of live and electronic giants. The stage will feature performances by four-time Grammy nominated dance act Disclosure, a 3D experience by Flying Lotus, bass-music legend and saxophone wielding Big Gigantic, new-wave electronic singer Santigold, electro-pop darlings Toro y Moi and Elohim, Slovenian producer Gramatik, urban house upstart Channel Tres and more.
The festivalâs house and techno haven, Woogie, will continue its legacy of bringing some of the worldâs best 4/4 selectors to its day-into-night party atmosphere. 2019 Woogie acts include modern progressive icon Lane 8, Crosstown Rebels sorcerer Damian Lazarus, German producer DJ Koze, live techno mastermind Recondite, Berlinâs Rampue, Dirtybird favorites Shiba San and Escapade (Walker & Royce + Ardalan), Anjunadeep star Luttrell plus a slew of other vibe setting DJs.
Bass music will continue its domination of LIBâs Thunder Stage with blowout showings by some of the festival sceneâs most celebrated acts. The Polish Ambassador will bring his unique, hip hop inspired live electronic sound to the stage alongside acts like studio wizard G Jones, the eclectic electronic stylings of CloZee, Alix Perez and EPROMâs Shades project, and bass scene leader OPIUO. The stage will also feature a takeover from LAâs white-hot Soulection crew of Joe Kay, Sasha Marie & Andres with many more low end specialists in tow.
The 2019 lineup announcement comes alongside a new chapter for LIB as it welcomes its family to the beautiful shores of Buena Vista Lake for the upcoming edition. The new location will offer attendees an upgraded experience in every sense with its lush grassy topography, thick shade trees, and swim-friendly shoreline. These idyllic qualities will create a more comfortable, easier to traverse, and above all, more intimate container in which the next chapter of LIB can flourish.
This next phase of the LIB saga arrives with a renewed focus on refining its core principles. Each member of the community is responsible for helping to bring the gatheringâs spellbinding experience to life, creating a space for exploration and self-discovery. As such in 2019, Do LaB has created the 6 Ways of LIB: Celebrate Life, Create Community, Respect Yourself, Actively Participate, Honor The Land, Practice Good Citizenship.
2019 attendees can expect all the forward-thinking musical curation and environments, immersive installation art, and cause-driven educational programming that have come to define the Lightning in a Bottle experience. It is these experiential pillars that help Do LaB in its quest to foster a society driven by creativity, compassion, and change.
Tickets On Sale Saturday, Feb 16th, at 10am PST:Â www.lightninginabottle.
LIGHTNING STAGE
Disclosure
Flying Lotus
Big Gigantic
Santigold
Gramatik
Toro y Moi
Elohim
Masego
Khruangbin
Cautious Clay
Jan Blomvquist
Rising Appalachia
Channel Tres
Frameworks
ĂFĂ
WOOGIE STAGE
Dj Koze
Recondite
Lane 8
Bedouin
Luttrell
Rampue
Shiba San
Holmar
Escapade (W&R + Ardalan)
Nico Stojan
Damian Lazarus
OMNOM
Gorje & Izhevski
VNSSA
Doc Martin
Zach Walker
Ben Annand
Anton Tumas
Rachel Torro
THUNDER STAGE
The Polish Ambassador
G Jones
CloZee
Dimond Saints
SHADES
OPIUO
Soulection
1788-
Spectrasoul
CharlestheFirst
Anna Morgan
Desert Dwellers
Manatee Commune
kLL sMTH
Jade Cicada
ill-esha
Axel Thesleff
Soohan
Mat the Alien
Megan Hamilton
Aabo?
PRSN
dela Moontribe
Australian artist Uone has enjoyed an impressive breakout year on the international circuit thanks to his Balance Presents compilation, an impressive work comprised entirely of his own productions which you can find here â both originals and remixes. But prior to this, he was primarily known for being a specialist festival DJ, a regular at hotspots from Boom to Rainbow Serpent and beyond.
Looking beyond the big names events, he picks 5 under-the-radar festivals that have blown his mind, and will blow yours too:
Lightning In A Bottle, the premier boutique music festival in North America, has recently unveiled its musical lineup for its 2018 event. This is being publicized as a wide-reaching lineup of some of most sought-after names in the techno music genre in what is to be a diverse and beautifully unpredictable experience.
This year’s Lightning Stage will be graced by the likes of Anderson Paak & The Free Nationals, Zhu, Griz, Fever Ray, The Glitch Mob, Sofi Tukker, Tune-Yards, Beats Antique, or Tokimonsta; at the Thunder Stage with Tipper, Modeselektor (DJ Set), Emancipator, Sango, Giraffage, Bleep Bloop, Clozee, and Random Rab, or at the waterfront house and techno haven, the Woogie Stage with Nicole Moudaber, The Black Madonna, MK, Stimming, Rodriguez Jr (live), Yotto, Patrice Baumel, Purple Disco Machine, Oona Dahl, Mira, Viken Arman, and more.
Baylee Ybarra Gatlin of Ventura, California, passed away after being taken from Lightning In a Bottle music and arts festival to Twin Cities Community Hospital In Templeton on May 28.
The 20 year old was attending the festival at Lake San Antonio when she suffered a medical emergency. The autopsy results conducted by the County Coroner were released on Thursday afternoon by the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office, indicating the cause and manner of death for the young woman.
