HARDFest Feat. Justice, Buraka Som Sistema, Austra, M83 and MORE!

I woke up Saturday noon to a simple one line email from my editor at Spinner, “Can you interview Justice at 330 pm?”  Obviously, the answer was yes, I would say yes even if I was in a quadriplegic full body cast. There was no reason to miss out on this opportunity, especially since our initial interview request was oddly denied.

Buraka Som Sistema – Candonga from Jesse Ship on Vimeo. Don’t miss Blaya with the bootyquake on the 3 min mark!

Despite being held at Fort York on what passes for festival ground, Hard Fest TO was not a fest per se, but more of a long extended arm of the LA-based 2-day multi-staged event. But that doesn’t mean we didn’t have a good time.  Most exciting for me was crossing off three bands from my must-see bucket list, Austra, Buraka Som Sistema and M-83.

Brewing storms held off until the very end of the night, and broke just phttps://shipwrckd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/woman-traveling-in-france-2023-11-27-05-16-47-utc_Easy-Resize.com_.jpgr to Justice’s set, delaying them by 20 minutes or so. Maybe they were scared that the rain would screw up their new hydraulic dj stage / organ contraption which no EDM act these days can be without!