At Stream, positivity is available in all shapes and guises, from the glowing amber-hearted bromance of serpentwithfeet’s Balloon 360 love-in – he even palms out roses to the group – to the escapist hedonism of Helena Hauff’s storming Sunday night time DJ set on the Resident Advisor Entrance Yard. Saturday’s primary stage headliner Fred once more.. is rightly topped king of this yr’s Stream with the biggest crowd of the competition, and it’s not even shut. The London-born digital artist and producer spent a while in Finland as a child, and if the Finns hadn’t already adopted him as one in all their very own earlier than this set, they actually had by the point it was over. Indulging his showman facet, there’s a second the place he runs out into the group solely to rise above it on a hydraulic platform that seems from nowhere behind the sound desk. The roar is deafening.
For many who wish to proceed the occasion, Berlin queer membership Herrensauna stage a raucous takeover of the X Backyard stage, whereas over within the Black Tent, zeitgeisty Scottish artist/producer Barry Can’t Swim brings his Mercury-nominated debut album When Will We Land? to life. Craving one thing completely different, I headed to the Silver Enviornment as an alternative to observe Norwegian star Aurora put her personal quixotic spin on the positivity precept, scaling up the whimsy for the advantage of all of the “warriors and weirdos” within the crowd.
Dwelling as much as the Latin that means of her title, her visually spectacular efficiency turns Saturday midnight into another daybreak, the place the great combat is at all times fought within the title of all marginalised folks and the wounded earth itself. It’s not at all times fairly, seesawing between mild and really darkish. Aurora’s idiosyncrasies aren’t for anybody even remotely cynical, however she ends with a message of empowerment and hope. Be your self, however be courageous with it. Stand for one thing. All of us have a spot on this world, and “soft hearts need protection.”
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