Chris Lake

One Liner: Another EDM guy making EDM guy stuff.

Wikipedia Genre: House, EDM
Home: Norwich, England

Poster Position: 6
Both Weekends.

Sunday at 5:30 on the Miller Lite Stage.

Thoughts:  More house music.  Wikipedia says that he originally started under the moniker Christophe D'Abuc back in 2002, and gained some notice through the early 2000's before shifting his sound in 2015.  He's done a lot of remixes of other people's songs - Calvin Harris, Jess Glynne, Missy Elliot, etc.  But he has released a huge pile of singles for himself as well.  His first big single was "Changes," released in 2006.

Don't love it.  It's fine, just more of a pop dance song, and less of the house/EDM that he's shifted into now.

The issue with a track like "Boneless," which is good, bouncy fun, is that it is credited to Steve Aoki, Chris Lake, and Tujamo.  When three EDM guys join up on one song, whose song is it, really?  It's not like they have three beats fighting for attention here, there is just one, cohesive sound coming here.  Who actually made that?  115 million streams though, so its hitting.

Either way - whoever is really in charge of it, that is a fun track.  Could absolutely see a crowd getting stupid when it kicks in after the first build.  Also, this video makes my man look like some Jason Sudeikis SNL character who is trying to be young and cool when he is so obviously not.

I like a lot of these tunes, but after a while, when listening to the whole package on Spotify, you get down to some of the remix versions that are significantly less enjoyable.  "Sabb and PRC Freaks' Freaking Out Remix," as an example, is deeply annoying and should be used to torture prisoners of war at Guantanamo.  Unfortunately, the only album the guy has is just that - one real song and then five remixes of that song, and listening to that album as a whole makes me wish for the sweet release of death.

One more track, a 2018 single, is his currently most popular and second-most streamed.  "Turn Out the Lights."  80.9 million streams.

Less interesting to me than that last one.  Not bad, just nothing all that memorable or interesting coming from the beat or the lyrics.  I'm sure a big crowd of drug-addled teens will have fun jumping around to this guy in October, but I think I'm in good shape.