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The set began with quieter, clattering tracks from “Los Angeles,” like “Camel,” which centers on a placid metal clanking that could be a very organized group of cows crossing the road, and moved into heavier tracks by members of the LuckyMe collective, like Hudson Mohawke’s genuinely loopy “ZooO00oO0m,” a clump of high and low synthesizer lines that seems to be trying to untangle itself and to pogo at the same time. As he played, Ellison bobbed furiously, with an enormous smile on his face, twisting knobs but looking as if he wanted to dance as much as physically possible without abandoning his equipment. The set segued into his own gentle, loopy remix of Lil Wayne’s ubiquitous “A Milli” and then settled into several brutish, heavy tracks from the dubstep genre—rough-cut slabs of bass and drums that bully the listener into dancing. Then Ellison guided the music back through more rapping, and ended with the susurration of the Radiohead remix. At no point did Ellison feel compelled to make sense. At no point did the crowd stop dancing.
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