[AS PUBLISHED IN MALAY MAIL]
RARELY has an artiste generated as much hype in an led-lit mask.
That’s if you count Daft Punk and Deadmau5.
This is Marshmello, toast of EDM whose stratospheric rise has made him the genre’s most accomplished DJ this year.
> Pop star collaborations thrusted melody maker into mainstream.
> Third best-selling male artist on iTunes, behind Ed Sheeran and Post Malone.
> Newcomer made No 8 on Forbes’ world’s highest-paid DJs list with US$21 million (RM85.6 million) earnings.
As Forbes put it:
“Few DJs make it to festival mainstages and Ibiza club gigs — only one has done it as an independent artist dressed like a marshmallow.
What makes him so darn good?
Just ask fans who turned up as early as 5pm for his sellout show in Kuala Lumpur last weekend.
The dubbed Mellogang rocked all-white garbs for The White Party at KL Live.
A solid 2,500 following packed in, treated to warm-up acts EVA T and homegrown dubstep duo DPRX.
Sunday perhaps, but no rest for partygoers who waited patiently for their hero to emerge too in all-white, replete with famous marshmallow fashioned mask, doughy cross-eyed with smile.
Raucous applause and a sea of handphones greeted the producer who settled into his set with trademark giddy rollercoaster drops.
His prized talent, the much-loved, dreamy effect on synthesisers, kept the party high-octane for hits Silence and Selena Gomez duet Wolves while throwback mixes to alternative rock anthems Sum 41 and Florence and the Machine kept him in touch with the room's introverted post-millennials.
Undoubted highlight was the track that propelled Mello to fame, Alone, released just 18 months ago.
The track played to trippy gaming-inspired graphics that ran throughout, ensuring an otherworldly experience fans have come to expect.
But it was also a reminder of the song's famous music video.
The sequence sees Mello trudging around the grounds of an American high school bullied by those around him.
In his famous ever-smiling helmet, he returns to his darkened closed-off bedroom which comes to life when he spins records.
It's that sense of alienation, and subsequent escapism, that brings out so many to his live shows that are there to be savoured.
It was Marshmello's second appearance in Malaysia after stopover on the Ritual Tour in October last year.
RARELY has an artiste generated as much hype in an led-lit mask.
That’s if you count Daft Punk and Deadmau5.
This is Marshmello, toast of EDM whose stratospheric rise has made him the genre’s most accomplished DJ this year.
> Pop star collaborations thrusted melody maker into mainstream.
> Third best-selling male artist on iTunes, behind Ed Sheeran and Post Malone.
> Newcomer made No 8 on Forbes’ world’s highest-paid DJs list with US$21 million (RM85.6 million) earnings.
As Forbes put it:
“Few DJs make it to festival mainstages and Ibiza club gigs — only one has done it as an independent artist dressed like a marshmallow.
What makes him so darn good?
Just ask fans who turned up as early as 5pm for his sellout show in Kuala Lumpur last weekend.
The dubbed Mellogang rocked all-white garbs for The White Party at KL Live.
A solid 2,500 following packed in, treated to warm-up acts EVA T and homegrown dubstep duo DPRX.
Sunday perhaps, but no rest for partygoers who waited patiently for their hero to emerge too in all-white, replete with famous marshmallow fashioned mask, doughy cross-eyed with smile.
Raucous applause and a sea of handphones greeted the producer who settled into his set with trademark giddy rollercoaster drops.
His prized talent, the much-loved, dreamy effect on synthesisers, kept the party high-octane for hits Silence and Selena Gomez duet Wolves while throwback mixes to alternative rock anthems Sum 41 and Florence and the Machine kept him in touch with the room's introverted post-millennials.
Undoubted highlight was the track that propelled Mello to fame, Alone, released just 18 months ago.
The track played to trippy gaming-inspired graphics that ran throughout, ensuring an otherworldly experience fans have come to expect.
But it was also a reminder of the song's famous music video.
The sequence sees Mello trudging around the grounds of an American high school bullied by those around him.
In his famous ever-smiling helmet, he returns to his darkened closed-off bedroom which comes to life when he spins records.
It's that sense of alienation, and subsequent escapism, that brings out so many to his live shows that are there to be savoured.
It was Marshmello's second appearance in Malaysia after stopover on the Ritual Tour in October last year.
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