This past weekend the THUMP crew packed up a van, loaded up on roasted almonds and fruit snacks before hitting the road to lovely Thornville, Ohio, where Chicago trap lords Flosstradamus would be the first to bring dance music, and their HDYNATION, to The Gathering of the Juggalos.
When the guys took to social media to announce their appearance at the often ridiculed, always misunderstood festival, they received some interesting backlash from both sides of the spectrum. As always, they brushed the haters to the side and geared up to go all in at the event. We were right there with the cameras rolling. Obviously, shit got lit before the first 808 drop.
Floss’ set started a bit rocky (pun incoming), as Josh from the duo was at the wrong end of a flying stone an unknown fan decided to hurl towards the DJ booth. After quickly tending to his wound, mostly by wiping some blood off his face with a towel, Josh took back to the DJ booth and the rest of the set went off in the group’s classically turnt fashion.
When the duo dropped “Mosh Pit” at the end of their set, imploring the feverish sea of flailing arms to engage in the infamous “wall of death,” Flosstradamus had proved their worth at The Gathering and found themselves welcomed into one of the most unique families in modern music festival culture. It was an absolute sociocultural clusterfuck and one of the most interesting things we’ve ever seen.
Check out a few of our photos from Floss’ set at the Gathering below, and keep your eyes out for our full-length documentary profiling their time at the festival. Whoop whoop.
Faygoluvers Comments
RepTheAxe
Comment posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 02:50 pm GMT -5 at 2:50 pm
The people throwing rocks should have there asses beaten. Who is doing this every year and getting away with it? I have never been to a gathering but it’s stupid shit like the rocks and fireworks and the water balloon launchers that seem to fuck it up for everybody.
TravisKing
Comment posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 05:32 pm GMT -5 at 5:32 pm
If you are in the crowd and you see someone throw a rock a beer bottle whatever its your job to police that up that’s a ass beating on site that’s just GP and if you see it and don’t stop it you need to be policed up too I won’t even lie during there set when they told everyone to site down almost everyone in front of me did I stay stood and turned my back to them and threw up my D L hand sign I didn’t care much for what they where doing but I got enough respect as a concert goer and Juggalo to not throw shit at the performers who every threw the rock is a coward and a bitch and can eat a bowl of dicks
sumhow80
Comment posted on Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 10:33 pm GMT -5 at 10:33 pm
This group blew my mind away and it was very sad to hear about the rock being thrown. Complete disrespect… i was there for Teli also and it sucked seeing that go down. All its doing is showing some really good bands that its not a good idea to preform at the gathering and in some way in the long run its hurting our chance to see greatness on the stage.
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