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PHOTO BY SOOYEONPYO
Ethan Snoreck, otherwise known as Whethan, has risen to recent acclaim in the electronic music world.
Whethan brings electronic extravaganza to Orange Peel
LARISA KARR
Managing Editor
lakarr@unca.edu
Inside The Orange Peel, people
linger in a state of permanent sum
mer.
Bedecked in tube tops, tie-dye
dresses and shorts, the young crowd
gathers to dance the night of Oct.
19 away to various forms of elec
tronic music.
Indie electronic group Opia
greets the concert-goers with a se
rious, undramatic version of “Baby,
One More Time” and the crowd re
sponds with glee.
Right from the start, people are
bouncing up and down to the open
ers, which is quite uncommon for
many concerts.
This cheerful tone sets the pace
for the whole night.
“There were free spirits, free-lov
ing people trying to have a good
time and people trying to forget
the bullshit that goes on in normal
life,” said Jade Yolanda Littleton, a
29-year-old electrician from Atlan
ta.
By the time the second opener
Bearson comes on, the crowd is in
full-on party mode.
As they extend their hands into
the air to the booming electronic
beats, pink and blue lights swirl
around the stage. The Norwegian
artist knows how to play to the
crowd of early 2000s pseudo-ravers
by remixing classic indie anthems
like Passion Pit’s “Sleepyhead” and
M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes.”
He incorporates thoughtful me
lodic elements in his DJ mix, in
cluding synth-pop, dub-step and
Eurodance.
The crowd springs to life at this
point, still jumping and twirling
each other around in merry circles.
By the time the headliner ap
proaches the stage, the audience is
anything but exhausted.
Ethan Snoreck, the young pro
tege of electronic DJ Skrillex, is
ready for his upcoming set.
Wearing a grey-and-red-striped
shirt, Snoreck, who is known
as Whethan, flips his strawber
ry-blonde hair as he begins to gid
dily play a series of popular pop
anthems interspersed with his bom
bastic twists, a process which he
has spoken about as being very dis
tinctive to his artistic style.
“The topline is the most import-
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