Well, here we are again. It’s the last issue of the year. It seems like I should have some feeling of finality regarding it. After all, it’s been a long and busy year here. Over the past year, we have published over 80 different articles, and reviews and that’s far from all the new content that was added this year. We started the long process of creating for the first time a comprehensive list of bios for EDM producers who are Christians, and we are just starting to scratch the surface with the initial 43 we currently have. Beyond that, we had a total redesign of the site from the ground up. I mean, as far as Tastyfresh.com was concerned, this was a huge year, and I should be ready to put things to rest for a while, right?

Nothing really could have gotten me more excited than when I finally booked a hotel room for last weekend.  I was going down to see one of my biggest influences in music play at a venue I have always wanted to visit.  Yes indeed, Andy Hunter was coming all the way across the Atlantic, just about 6 hours east of where I live to Club Worship.   All I had to do now was drive down with 3 of my best friends, what a great weekend ahead of me.

I’m still pretty new to the dance music scene (Christian or secular) as a whole and to DJ-led worship in particular, and until September 9th, I hadn’t been to any live events. I really don’t think that I could’ve picked a better weekend for my first live EDM experience and my first DJ-led worship event.

I guess a lot of people writing a review about this festival will pretty much have the same information, so I will try to do something different. Rather than focus on the technical aspects of things or how professional this was done, I will approach this from my personal experience.

Unless you’re primary musical gig is as a choral vocalist, and maybe even then, you are going to end up owning music equipment.  Even if you see it as a necessary evil, you need to wrap your head around a hardware setup, get comfortable using it, and get busy making music.  Between here and there, you have a number of decisions to make.

We drove slowly away trying to find Camp Tastyfresh, and parked.  While we were looking over the field where the big white tent with UG was to see if anyone was there, there is a loud hissing coming out of our front tire.  “Oh no!  It’s going flat!  Well at least it happened here, it could have been anywhere along the road,” Jeremy and I both say to each other.

Ironically, I was planning on writing an article about how our scene lacks self-support and then I became apathetic about the article and the topic in general. That’s when it hit me. I realized I would just be beating a dead horse. We all are (or should be) aware that we don’t support our own artists, DJ’s websites, record labels, etc…

After getting a new tire I was on my way and arrived at Cornerstone on Thursday, the 6th at about 4pm. To be honest, since it was my first time I had no clue what to expect. I had always imagined Cornerstone to be some sort of youth group party, ya know the kind with pizza and pop, youth pastors chasing around the rebellious one and all that. But to my shock it was a lot harder and more real than that.

It’s been four years since I had last been and a lot has changed. For the second year now, an organization other than one of the two traditional dance music labels ran the Dance Club… or Dance Barn as the club’s patrons more accurately call it. To me, what this signifies is that the event has moved from the control of the labels to the control of the fans.

Greetings,

My name is Telo Dunne and I am the Marketing and Production Manager for the Clover Music Festival taking place in Traverse City, Michigan this August.  Clover will be the largest Christian Dance Music Festival ever held worldwide. The festival is FREE OF CHARGE.

Say WHAT?!?