Disco Lines

One Liner: EDM

Wikipedia Genre: Future bass, deep house, trap
Home: Boulder, CO

Poster Position: Second Quarter - Line 8
Both Weekends.

Sunday at 5:15 on the Miller Lite Stage.

Thoughts:  I am hopeful that the stage name here is about cocaine.  That feels like it tracks, right?  I am a big fan of his Wikipedia entry though, because it contains a total of about 50 words.  Which also seems correct - generic EDM guy that no one will remember in a year?  Sure, why write a lot about him?

Thadeus Francis Labuszewski was raised in Colorado and attended CU Boulder.  He started making EDM in high school after hearing a Skrillex album.  He appears to have a ton of songs on his Spotify, but I am 90% sure I have been listening to the same one for the past few hours.  First single was 2019's Honey.  Biggest early hit was a remix/cover of Taylor Swift's "Love Story" with something called Cassidi singing.  Biggest hit overall is the 2022 single "Baby Girl" with 204.7 million streams.

Sure.  I could groove to that.  No albums, just singles.  Also no other song with more than 100 million streams.  Closest one is a 2025 single called "No Broke Boys."  92.5 million streams.

Features something called Tinashe.  I suspect that is the lady in the forefront of that image above, who needs a new t-shirt.  Google's jenky AI agreed with my idea that this stage name is likely a play on the act of consuming lines of cocaine.

Also, and of course because I am about to cite Reddit, who knows if there is any truth here, but apparently this guy doesn't even really do anything on stage.  "Last week I saw a DJ who’s been blowing up on social media, namely TikTok and Instagram. His name is Disco Lines and he’s gotten a ton of traction on a few of his remixes and songs and was playing a party I went to.  Dude gets on stage and straight up plays 4 songs in a row that the opener had played 30 minutes before him. Just your generic EDM hits, like pepas, pursuit of happiness steve aoki, you know the drill.  I go up near him and I see that sync is on his controller. I ask him if he plays his sets with sync on and he’s like yeah and laughs."

So that I could understand, the "sync" button is apparently a feature in DJ software that automatically synchronizes the tempo and beat of two tracks, so that you can create a seamless transition between the two.  Many folks see that as cheating because you are not showing any DJ skill - the machine is doing it all.  

Not that any of this really matters - people aren't going to these EDM shows because they want to see a guy creating something.  They just want to watch a guy or gal pump their fist in the air, act like they are tweaking knobs on a sound board, and get the crowd hype.  He's probably great at it!