'This isn't just ours. This is Denver's house and techno festival. We've got some of the most absurdly talented locals on our lineup.'
Padgett was a self-proclaimed"club rat" in college, going to class during the week and leaving every Thursday to hit the clubs, reveling in house music, techno and the energy of the after-parties."I fell in love with the genre and it was like, 'I could do this," he recalls."I have a vision of what I think people would like and want to hear because it was what I liked and wanted to hear.
One of the company's other original members, Rob West, co-owner and chief of operations, remembers the struggle putting on their very first show, which they held at Lincoln Street Station."I think for that show I over-drafted my bank account to pay for the sound system," he says.
According to West, music is ultimately emotion and can be incredibly transformative, lifting people out of dark places, even for a brief moment."If we have the fortune to be able to provide that, then we feel it's a responsibility to do so," he says. Padgett and West frequent Red Rocks — they have already attended five shows there this season — but are excited to host something a little different. With its vast expanse of grass and open space, Civic Center Park is the perfect location for a festival that's meant to be, well, regenerative.
"I was thinking how the seasons change and how everything is cyclical and all that," explains West."We didn't want it to be too complicated; we wanted it to be pretty simple and kind of based around nature. So I think [the name] was just something that came about organically."
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