Given the name of the event, it's no abruptness the army at the additional anniversary Brooklyn Electronic Music Anniversary were pumped to get their canal on. And acknowledgment to the calendar of 40-plus DJs and bands, this year's attendees had affluence of options. With every adumbration of electro -- from pop to hip-hop and everywhere in amid -- there was absolutely article for everyone. One of the festival's best able acts included the house-soaked hip-hop of Fresh York's own Leif, while Milwaukee fresh beachcomber duo Codebreaker fabricated their Brooklyn admission to a berserk acceptant audience.

While the anniversary on the accomplished acclaimed ball music, it became added and added bright that the army had appear to see headliners the Juan MacLean. Afterwards absolution one of the best ball singles of 2008 with 'Happy House' (the video of which we premiered aftermost week), the bandage has risen above "band to watch" cachet and into a must-see alive act. The bandage opened with 'The Simple Life,' which additionally opens its fresh album, 'The Future Will Come.' When additional accompanist (and LCD Soundsystem member) Nancy Whang took the stage, the accommodation alfresco army let apart and danced afterwards abandon. MacLean additionally apparent a abstruse weapon aboriginal in the set: a theremin."This is the best difficult apparatus in the apple to play!" MacLean exclaimed to the crowd. It'd be adamantine to tell, though, accustomed the way MacLean seamlessly formed its acute squawks into songs already brave with anarchistic affected sounds. The army accomplished a agitation angle by the time the aperture chords of 'Happy House' began. The admirers danced, shouted and -- in a few cases -- rushed the date for the group's set, and again connected to affair continued afterwards the bandage larboard the date and Brooklyn's DJ Ayers took over the decks. Needless to say, we'll be aback for added abutting year.