The stages soon opened back up and we quickly found ourselves in the more psychedelic of the four venues, the NeonGARDEN, where John Digweed was serving narcotic techno loops to the more seasoned dance music contingent.
It also adds a dance-music contingent: Pretty Lights and Girl Talk.
As the sizable Wisconsin contingent danced along with their favorite band, Pullen was the only member of his team to place a towel over his low-hanging head as he walked off the floor.
The festival – essentially a big family-friendly chill-out session – has a big performing arts contingent, too: dance, theatre and spoken word, as well as workshops from acro yoga and Japanese tea tasting to finger knitting and didgeridoo.
In the Big Apple, there's a nightlife option for just about every personality, niche, musical taste, and individual and with the rapidly growing contingent of dance music lovers swarming the borough of Brooklyn, navigating the city's club listings can often feel like a homework assignment, but we got you.
And that, says a certain younger contingent of the dance world, is exactly as it should be.
Big powwows include raffles of Indian blankets and jewelry, prize money for dance contest winners, and a contingent of booths selling crafts, tribal T-shirts and "Free Leonard Peltier" pins and bumper stickers.
And while you're at it, you can make fun of dance music's most misunderstood contingent!
The Irish contingent additionally contributes some modern dance.
This year, there was no shortage of exhortations from the stage for fans to drink, dance and debauch, but there was a bigger contingent of strong female performers, including neo-rockabilly-Western singer Nikki Lane, Colorado electric-guitar wielding singer-songwriter Clare Dunn and the spirited female bluegrass quintet Della Mae.
