Artist: Gareth Emery (w/ Haliene & Kristina Sky)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Concert Date: March 17, 2018
We first started listening to Gareth Emery when he was a supporting artist on the Anjuna Beats lable, led by Above & Beyond. His closing set for the “Trance Around the World – TATW: 400 – Lebanon” is the stuff of legend. He’s gone on to produce some of our favorite dance tracks of all time, including “Concrete Angel” and “On a Good Day”, as well as countless other amazing bangers. A skilled musician (not “just” a DJ), he is also an entrepreur and music executive, having recently founded the block-chain driven label, “Choon” which is focused on more transparent payments to artists for their streaming content (taking out the middle men).
When he first announced the “Laserface” concept, we were excited to see it, but couldn’t get to NYC for the first iteration. So when he announced a second show in San Francisco, just a short flight from our place in Los Angeles, we booked a ticket and planned a weekend away.
True to it’s name, “Laserface” takes lighting and well, lasers, to the next level of production level and creativity. The music and lights were synched perfectly. A unique experience and well worth it for any dance music fan.
Playlist from the night (from 1001Tracklists – order/accuracy not verified) [all clips/pictures were taken by us]:
- Close 2 U (Matt Fax ft. Mike Schmid)
- Retrospect (Lange)
- Two Hundred [Stay with Me] – Black Sunset Mix (Jeremy Vacaulart & Assaf ft. Diana Leah)
- Kitten (Sander van Dorn pres. Purple Haze)
- Tokyo (Gareth Emery)
- Bury It – Gareth Emery Remix (CHVRCHES ft. Hayley Williams)
- Dragon (NWYR)
- Call to Arms (Gareth Emery ft. Evan Henzi)
- Encore Une Fois – Ashley Wallbridge Remix (Sash!)
- Strings (Ashley Wallbridge)
- Surrender (Darude & Ashley Wallbridge ft. Foux)
- Hands (Gareth Emery & Alastor ft. London Thor)
- On Off (Cirez D)
- Coming on Strong – Gareth Emery & Ashley Wallbridge Remix (Signum ft. Scott Mac)
- Kingdoms (Ben Gold)
- In and Out of Love – Richard Durand Remix (Armin van Buuren ft. Sharon Den Adel)
- Venera [Vee’s Theme] (Ferry Corsten pres. Gouryella)
- Saving Light (Gareth Emery & Standerwick ft. Haliene)
- Stars & Moon (Breathe Carolina & Shanahan ft. Haliene) (see clip)
- Didgeridoo (Will Atkinson)
- Wherever You Are (Ferry Corsten & Haliene) (see clip)
- * Unknown * (see clip)
- Until We Meet Again – Ben Nicky Remix (Gareth Emery ft. Ben Gold)
- Alya – Ben Nicky & Luke Bond Remix (Alya)
- Castle On The Hill – Gareth Emery & Ashley Wallbridge Remix (Ed Sheeran)
- Long Way Home – Ashley Wallbridge Remix (Gareth Emery)
- Electronic Malfunction – Paul Denton Remix (Ton TB)
- Dynamite (Gareth Emery ft. Christina Novelli)
- In Silence – Txitxarro Remix (Randy Katana)
- Flash (Green Velvet) (see clip)
- The New World – Davey Asprey Remix (Markus Schulz)
- Shine – Jorn Van Deynhoven Remix (The Space Brothers ft. Joanna Law)
- Sunrise [Here I Am] (Ratty)
- Thing Called Love (Above & Beyond ft. Richard Bedford) (see clip)
- Concrete Angel – John O’Callaghan Remix (Gareth Emery ft. Christina Novelli) (see clip)
- God Is A Girl (W&W and Groove Carnage)
- Blinded by the Lights – Nero Remix (The Streets)
- Sansa (Gareth Emery)
Here is the official “movie” from Gareth’s YouTube channel.