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Road To EDC Las Vegas 2017: Quantum Valley Showcase - 24/27
EDC Week
Day 37/40: VII Takeover: Simon Patterson - Day 1: Quantum Valley
Artist: Simon Patterson Song: Opulence
Genre: Psy-Tech Trance Label: VII
(Thursday) I may not have time to cover these artists since I'm leaving tomorrow morning so I'm doing them now. Coming in at #5 of my top 10 anticipated acts and #2 on the VII artist reveal is the one and only Simon "PSYmon" Patterson! He closed The Vision, the tech trance stage, on Day 2 of Dreamstate SoCal 2016, and I missed it. But I was able to see him at Beyond Wonderland 2017, and man is he a beast! He played after Vini Vici, and brought the atmosphere into the underground with limited lighting.
"Opulence" is Patterson's third release on the VII record label and continues to be high quality and high energy psy-tech trance. There is a slight breakdown at 1:20, in which there is a speech. At 1:50, the build up starts and we can hear some psytrance techniques at 1:48 with that reverberated vocal chops. There is a clock timer tick right after the vocal line at 2:40 that signals into the climax, and I think it's the funniest thing to listen to, ding!
Simon Patterson will be playing at Quantum Valley on Day 1 with the rest of the VII crew from 11:30 - 1:00 am. He is playing a headlining spot and will carry the hard tech trance energy from John Askew and start mixing in the psytrance and prepping for Astrix, our headlining psytrance artist. I most likely will be camping out at Quantum Valley for Day 1, so come find me and say hi!