📷: Luis Colato
Phoenix, Arizona– Grab your cowboy boots and light-up cowboy hats! We are heading back to Goldrush Sonoran Skies on October 7th and 8th at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona! With headliners such as Tiesto, Zeds Dead, Zhu, Louis the Child, Madeon, Alison Wonderland, and many more! With two jam-packed days of music and loads of fun, this year’s Goldrush Sonoran Skies returns for another year. This year’s music festival has a little something for everyone!
Our headbangers are in for a wild ride this year. We get to see performances for all our bassheads from ATLiens, Kai Wachi, Champagne Drip and many more. Relentless Beats did not forget our house/techno lovers either. We’ll be seeing Ben Bohmer, Dombresky, Will Clarke, and others too!
📷: Luis Colato
Warming up for the big day, Relentless Beats hosted their sixth annual Goldrush DJ Competition on Friday, August 11, 2023 at Arizona’s favorite venue, the Van Buren. The DJ Competition had an overwhelming amount of talented artists from the valley with all types of genres such as tech-house, dubstep, . DJ Competition judges include Daniel Bankhead, Michelle Walters, and last year’s winner and very close friend, Little Fohx.
Little Fohx is a multi-genre producer from Dallas, Texas. She first became interested in the scene as a fan attending festivals and immersing herself in the nightlight in 2014. Little Fohx decided she wanted more for the scene and culture. With a new discovered passion she brought it upon herself to start learning and over the years has evolved into a more well rounded musician. Curating diverse sets as well as learning production from like minded individuals, playing and creating both dubstep and bass house. You can listen to her music here: https://spotify.link/8r8Xi2axgDb
We had a blast at the DJ competition and a special shout out to the winner of the competition, Dxtne! You can find opening up the main stage at Gold Rush Sonoran Skies this year! Thank you for hosting an incredible night, Little Fohx.
One of my personal favorites will be joining us in the desert once more. Locals and people from all over come to see Hugo Pierre Lecllercq, known as Madeon perform on stage. Madeon is a french dj wrapping up his Good Faith Tour and last Good Faith performance at the end of this month in LA. The Good Faith Live is Madeon’s personal project in which he’s worked on it for years after his Adventure. His album, inspired by French House and EDM, has been guided by themes of finding purpose, celebrating happiness, and honoring those around you. He incorporated gospel singers, pop, EDM, and French inspired music.
📷: Luis Colato
“Good Faith Live is the artistic project that I’m proudest of in my career and something that I’ve given a lot of thought to. The Architects and I have been thinking about it non-stop. We understood some fundamental principles about what we liked about live performances and what we had created. So it made it obvious when we wanted to emphasize: the theatrics, the narrative dimension, and the drama.”
Get to know more about Madeon and his Good Faith Era with this Reddit created by his fans: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1drmb4PvNJcGLfFjHiuw66r8qQ61dgat4_vOlP2-AmHw/edit!
Photo credit: Luis Colato on Facebook
You know where I will be when Madeon takes the stage! Grab your Goldrush tickets here. Shuttle passes, parking passess, lockers, and more are available on the website. You don’t want to miss out on this year’s Goldrush Sonoran Skies. I’ll see you on the dance floor!
Written by Veronica Vale
