Article Contributed by L. Paul Mann
| Published on Saturday, May 1, 2021
California brothers Jeff and Kevin Saurer brought their unique brand of EDM music to a primarily young drive-in audience desperate for a live danceable bet. The Sacramento duo known as
Hippie Sabotage played their first concert in over a year at the Concerts in Your Car series at the Ventura Fairgrounds on Saturday, April 24th. The first show the trance masters had done since their ambitious 2020 “Direction of Dreams” was shut down shortly after it began by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By the time Hippie Sabotage took the stage, darkness had descended on the fairgrounds, and a cool spring sea breeze blew through the rows of parked cars. But that didn’t seem to dampen anyone's spirits as people began to gyrate in their pods as soon as the music commenced. The sound system from the stage was just loud enough to send a trance-inducing bass thump across the venue. While it wasn’t a Bassnectar style headbanging, ear-shattering thunderous wall of amplifiers, it was enough for music fans to keep the beat. Some cars equipped with intricate sound systems blared the live radio broadcast creating localized bass-centric zones across the fairgrounds.