Six Camping Essentials to Bring to Hulaween

Six Camping Essentials to Bring to Hulaween

by | Oct 23, 2023 | Festival Exclusives

With Hulaween creeping up fast, it is best to be completely prepared in order to have a fun and calming weekend. 4 days full of music and living in the woods calls for a decent amount of prep, so we put together a list of six ultimate camping essentials that you should bring with you next weekend.

1.Portable Charger- With artists like Pretty Lights, John Summit, and Goose, fans are about to witness and incredible lineup of music. Because Hulaween is a camping festival, electricity isn’t always readily available. In order to stay in touch with your group, or if you love recording clips of your favorite sets, a portable charger is the best thing to have on you during the festival. 

 

2.Hammock or Inflatable Couch- Hulaween is all about being comfortable and enjoying the calming nature of Suwannee while listening to your favorite music. The best way to kick back and relax during a set is to either bring a hammock or an inflatable couch. Can’t go wrong with popping a squat after a long day of standing and dancing. 

3.Hydration pack- One of the most important parts of the weekend is making sure that you stay hydrated! A hydration pack is the best way to ensure that you can have water accessible to you throughout the weekend. Hulaween will have water stations set up all around the festival, making it easy to keep your hydration pack full at all times. 

 

4.Trinkets- If you have ever been to Hulaween, odds are you have come home with some type of small trinket in your pocket. Whether it be a tiny plastic baby or googley eyes to wear around your finger, small trinkets can make someone’s day at a festival, so it is always a great idea to bring something entertaining to give out.

5.Canned Foods- This year, Hulaween is partnering with Conscious Alliance to have a canned food drive to donate to a local food bank. Patrons that bring at least 20 nonperishable food ideas or a monetary donation will be able to receive a Hulaween 2023 poster to show their appreciation for helping the local community. 

 

6.Appropriate clothing- Florida’s weather has a mind of its own, especially during this time of the year. It is important to make sure you pack appropriate clothing because you never know if it will be 40 degrees one night, and 85 the next night. Packing the right clothes will keep you comfy all weekend so you can focus on dancing with your friends!

Creating a list the week before the festival is a great way to stay organized and make sure you have all of the essentials packed and ready to go. Get your bags ready, see you all next weekend!

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Celebrating 10 Years of Suwannee Hulaween: What to Expect

Celebrating 10 Years of Suwannee Hulaween: What to Expect

by | Oct 19, 2023 | Festival Exclusives

Photo by @ Tara Gracer

Music fans of every genre are about to embark on the incredible journey that is Suwannee’s Hulaween. The festival takes place at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park and is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, October 26-29 with an eclectic lineup featuring artists like Pretty Lights, Mt. Joy, Goose, John Summit and more. This four day immersive festival is the perfect way to kick off the fall season, from seeing everyones Halloween costumes, to exploring the misty grounds of Spirit Lake, festival goers are in for a spooky treat. 

To celebrate the tenth year of the festival, Hulaween has a couple of surprises up their sleeves, as well as special activations that attendees will be able to enjoy all weekend.

 

Here is a list of things you can expect to see at this years Hulaween:

2 Night of Pretty Lights

After taking a five year hiatus, musical luminary Pretty Lights is slated to play not just one, but two sets at the festival. Following his comeback tour, Soundship Spacesystem, Pretty Lights has made his way alongside his live band all over the country, giving fans an unforgettable night of music. Headliners, Rainbow Kitten Surprise were set to have a closing set, but unfortunately had to pull from the festival due to a band member’s health issues. So, the festival decided, what better way to fill the spot, than to give another set to Pretty Lights!

10 Special Art Installations

At Hulaween this year, fans will be able to enjoy an incredible array of art throughout the festival. One of the most beautiful parts about Suwannee is adventuring through the grounds and discovering hidden gems everywhere you look. This year, there will be ten separate art installations around the festival, with each of them representing a year of the festival. So, let the art take you through a time portal that will transport you throughout the many years of Hulaween, reminiscing on the amazing memories from each one.

Photo by @ Mark Walsh

Frick Frack Black Jack: A Tradition

Frick Frack Black Jack is a game that people dream of playing all year round. In a traditional game of Black Jack, gambling and betting money is involved, but at Hulaween, Frick Frack Black Jack is a game full of trades! You can trade anything from a paper clip, to a chair, to a hat, and even something as crazy as a car! (Yes, someone has really traded their car before…) Frick Frack adds the ultimate level of fun and quirkiness to the festival, while giving fans something exciting to get involved in.

 

360 Spirit Lake Visuals

Spirit Lake is a sacred treasure to everyone at Hulaween. As the sun begins to set and the grounds become dark, mist is sprayed from both sides of the lake, and visuals are projected onto the mist. Throughout the night, these unique visuals dance their way upon the water, providing a calming environment for attendees to relax and escape from the craziness of the weekend. This year specifically, instead of just half of the lake being used, the entire lake will be available to frolic around, so be sure to keep your eyes out for visuals and installations!

 

With the sold out festival creeping up right around the corner, get ready to experience one of the most magical weekends of your life, see you at Suwannee!

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Ternion Sound x Khallil Showcase New Break Beat Single “Amplify”

Ternion Sound x Khallil Showcase New Break Beat Single “Amplify”

by | Oct 4, 2023 | PREMIERE

Transformative, innovative, and illustrious. Three great words to describe an even greater movement that has been paved by one of the scene’s most beloved trio. Ternion Sound is the real-life embodiment of what it’s like to stay true to the craft that made you. Their relentless focus on underground culture within the bass community is of high respect, which is what makes their upcoming album “Digital Artifice” that much more special. It showcases the work ethic of a trio who continuously pushes the bar forward, unveiling a new soundscape that’s different from their current signature deep roots style. The entirety of the album is set to drop on Friday, October 13th via NOISIA’s renowned label, VISION. Today we get another glimpse of the greatness that’s to come with the premiere of their new collab with Khallil titled “Amplify”. Now it’s time to take a deeper dive as to what makes this track what we like to call, a certified bop.

 “This album has been years in the making… and it’s the most challenging creative work we’ve ever put together.”-Ternion Sound

DIVING DEEP W/ TERNION SOUND

1. From the depths of the underground to now being one of the most highly sought-after artist groups, what has changed overall between that timeframe?
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The nature of the shows we’re playing is much different. Ternion started almost as a rejection from the spaces we all occupied before, mainstage EDM centered venues with bad soundsystems and scenes that weren’t as mature as we’d liked. We were all playing Riddim and heavier brostep type music and it was getting tiring being in that culture. The first couple years of Ternion we were playing a lot smaller shows in atypical venues, but usually with great sound, lots of custom hand built systems or small high end brand systems. Lately though our sound has taken off in popularity and a lot of the same old issues are coming up, some of the spaces we sought to get away from are interested in us as we “get bigger”, and the crowds are less in sync and on the same wavelength. Fighting against those pressures while still growing is a difficult task, we need growth to sustain a living, but growth under the current industry model means doing a lot of stuff we aren’t aligned with. Our hope is to take our resources from growing and put them into throwing our own parties or working with promoters we trust to do things in a way that’s aligned with our vision. To use a term borrowed from political theory, we’re trying to build an alternate power structure.
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2. Being on the road as an artist comes with its challenges, I can only imagine multiplying that by three now. What are some of the ups and downs you guys have learned to overcome by being a trio in the electronic scene? 
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The biggest challenge with being a trio is we split everything 3 ways. It’s a great strength because we can delegate tasks, share workload, etc. But we are still only one act, filling one timeslot in the night, getting the draw of a single act, and getting paid accordingly, which means each of us as an individual gets 1/3rd of the pay a typical act at our size w/ typical pay gets. It doesn’t end up being 1/3rd the work either, the 3 of us all work full time doing this, so the delegated work just means we can do more work at the end of the day. This all basically means that we have to be very frugal and do a lot of things DIY even though the perception is that we’re very successful. Touring costs also eat a lot into this, sending all 3 members of the group to a show means triple the flight costs and additional room/bed costs. We typically send 2 for this reason as a middle ground, but even just with 2 we are doing 80+ shows a year (necessary to pay the bills), and for the two of us mostly on the road (me and Aric), there isn’t much time left at home for studio work, recovery (sleep debt management), and personal life. It’s a tough thing to juggle.
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3. What are three things that bring joy to your life when looking to escape from the music world at times and why.
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My escape from the music world has mostly been getting outside into nature without my phone on and just sitting in pure silence. Loud music, social media, socializing in person, traveling, flying, constantly talking to strangers, getting bad sleep, racking my brain for ideas in the studio, endless meetings and planning, etc are all exhausting forces, and for me what’s needed is silent time with no stimulation to recover from all of it. I also spend a good amount of time at the climbing gym and doing yoga and saunaing. Occasionally I get together with friends to play games as well, pretty simple stuff for me really.