Introducing: wavefest, a live online music festival
Over the last year, online music festivals (“URL festivals”) have become a staple of underground electronic music. Surely they weren’t invented this year, but you wouldn’t think that from the novel and idiosyncratic experience they offer. In 2018, events like Coalchella, Shimotsuki Club, and Language Night on the Porter Robinson Discord attracted thousands of listeners to hop on Discord and Minecraft servers and listen to sets from dozens of talented artists.
Some of you might know that wave.ac made a point of appearing at Coalchella, as well as becoming involved by sponsoring alike events. Around this time, our lead developer Kian started planning our first live event — it would be unfair to say we weren’t inspired by Coalchella and events like it, but Kian and I met some years ago on plug.dj during an alike online experience.
We know firsthand that events like this bring people together, allow artists to share new music, and bring unbridled value to our corner of the music industry. For that reason, we’re proud to announce the first wave.ac live event — wavefest, a live online music festival.
wavefest will be held on January 26, 2019 and will start at 4pm ET/9pm GMT. The event will feature 12 performances — including two unique back-to-back sets and one live show performance — from 16 of our absolute favourite artists. We’ll be streaming live from wavefest.wave.ac with a chat room on the wave.ac discord server.
We’re extremely excited and we hope you are too. We hope to see you at wavefest. In the mean time, stay tuned — we’ll be announcing the set times and some other surprises on Twitter, Facebook, and our Discord.
Thanks!❤
~wave.ac team (Noah, Kian, and Noah) + the wavefest performers
