By: Ryan Borba
Dave Vann
Disco BiscuitsnullIt’s easy to take for granted what seems to have always been. Dating back to the 1960s, the combination of improvisational rock music, communal environment and mind-altering substances now known simply as jam has created a built-in core audience that craves the live experience, filling venues and festival sites as predictably as clockwork. For the better part of the last quarter century, too, it’s been common to see EDM artists, DJs and electronic bands share festival bills and tour with jam artists.
Neither has always been.
The Birth of ‘Jamtronica’
The Disco Biscuits played Manhattan club Wetlands 24 times between 1996 and its 2001 closure, but the band’s gig there on Feb. 19, 1998, was different. For the show, a 25th anniversary celebration of jam magazine Relix, the Biscuits were trying something different.