Natalie Z. Briones is a concert veteran. She has been in Heavy Metal concerts and a punk music festival where she overcame most of the time. On Sunday, he attended his first Rave.
Natalie has a few months of less than 2. In her father's arms, Alvin Briones, 36, the pig boy chilló “Hello!” For anyone who would pass through the Roxy Theater in West Hollywood, where the Briones family was aligned to meet Lenny Pearce, the master mind behind Natalie's favorite song, “The Wheels on the bus.”
Natalie Z. Briones, sustained by her father Alvin Briones, facial painting Sports Rainbow in The Baby Rave.
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It is not the classic version that most parents sing while slowly swinging and applaud: Pearce's interpretation Ragas with enough low to shake the cages of the ribs. Natalie is here for this, and also her mother, Alondra Briones, who plays the Remix Techno during her units to work even without Natalie in the rear seat.
“He is a collector,” said Alondra, 28, from Compton, before presenting to the theater with other parents and caregivers for a Rager in the afternoon with their children.
In Pearce's Remixes of Classic Children's Music, an unexpected subgenre is taking off – techno of young children, which combines the lyrics Vanguardist rhythm drops Associated with the music of the fiery warehouse parties.
The unlikely musical match creates a bridge between parents such as Sandra Mikhail and her 6 -year -old daughter, Mila. Both dresses with Fuchsia at Pearce's dance party; The mother-daughter duo was there to celebrate the promotion of Mila from the kindergarten. In his house in Riverside, Pearce's music is in a strong rotation.
The children squeak from delight in the front baby in the Roxy when Kuma the monkey, Lenny Pearce's partner, promotes the crowd.
“I can handle children's music now,” said Sandra, 38. “With the rhythm and [Pearce] Adding that techno touch, makes me able to tolerate listening to it all day. ”
During the last year, Pearce has been organizing dance parties with exhausted tickets called Baby Raves, first in his native Australia, then in the first stage of his US tour, which culminated in a double head of June 29 at Roxy.
In the afternoon, the show timed that optimal point that many parents know well, after night and just before the afternoon witchcraft, Pearce Pranced, children from the high -life figures and greeted babies who are urbanized in the air.
Lenny Pearce vibrates with the crowd in his show with depleted entries in the Roxy.
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At 34, he has been an artist for most of his life. More than a decade ago, I was dancing in Musical videos as a member of the Justice Band team of the Australian boys band. Now, he is firmly placed in his father's age. His dance partner is now a great global spider called INCY WINCY.
“I'm just being a father on stage,” Pearce said in a New York video interview. “I can make a clown to entertain children.”
From the boys band to little techno
Lenny Pearce uses accessories during their shows, including an inflatable duck.
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Pearce's trip to child entertainment seemed anticipated, even if only because his identical twin brother is possibly the second most famous purple character in a children's television program (behind Barneyof course).
“We are both at the scene of young children,” said John Pearce, the oldest twin by Minute, who in 2021 joined “The wobbly“Thrown like the purple wigger.”[My brother’s] Attacked with him for a long time, and everything is now paid. “
In the Roxy, many parents and caregivers said they found Pearce through the purple widow. Others discovered it on social networks: it has more than 2 million followers In Tiktok and more than 1 million followers on Instagram.
Before becoming children's artists, the Pearce brothers were members of Justice Crew, a dance company that cattle “Australia's Got Talent” in 2010. For some years, the future of the boys band burned White Hot with the aspiration to cross in the United States – A dream that never materialized.
Lenny Pearce began to do what he calls Nitdler's techno music after his daughter was born in 2022. As a dad, he says he is happy to act silly for children.
Most children's bands have a finite moment in the center of attention, Pearce said. In 2016, he left Justice's team to focus on Djing and musical production, but the transition from Boy Band to Whitler Techno did not happen overnight. For a while, he worked as a seller in an Australian electronic store.
“People said: 'Are you not from Justice Crew?'” He said. “And I say, 'Yes. Now, do you want this lens with that camera?'”
In 2022, becoming the father of his daughter Mila changed the course of his creativity. Pearce began to remembered the songs for children with the “Ravey” music and filming himself Dancing with her the songs. Soon, other parents began to share Videos of his children also dancing with his songs. In this way, social networks allow ideas to refine until something stays.
In March, Pearce launched its first single album, Rightly titled “Techno of young children”.
Throughout the way, he imagined playing these songs in Mini Raves. For this generation of children and their millenary parents, it is not exaggerated, Pearce said. Pretend DJ tables They are sold as commonly in toy halls as construction trucks.
In autumn, Pearce and his baby will return to the United States, and, yes, to Los Angeles, in a 30 cities tour. As a solo artist, he has done what he could not do in a band: the US and international public has been broken.
“It's fun, right?” Pearce said. “I always felt that I had something to say, but nobody really listened.”
But are Techno holidays well for children?
Many baby attendees Rave wore sheets.
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The roots of the techno, in Detroit or Berlin, depending on who you are talking to, were always anti -stable, said Ambrus DeakMusic Production Program Manager in the Los Angeles Film School.
“It was exploratory,” said Deak, a life of a lifetime that was for DJ Amb, about Techno.
Techno of young children plays with that contrast: an avant -garde genre that is assured for children. Deak would not attend a Rave baby: “It would be very shocking for me,” he said, but sees the appeal.
“I can definitely see that many people are interested in him,” said Deak, 48.
Even so, not everyone sells with the idea of bringing children to a rave, even one in the middle of the day with a faces painting station. In the comments of the publications on the social networks of Pearce, the parents occasionally debate The suitability of exposing children to Rave culture added by drugs.
“I know that most people would say: 'Is this the image we want to teach our children?'” Pearce said. “What image are you imagining? Because if you think about it, they are just children with sticks of light, right?”
He receives concern, but children do not know about the darkest sides of the raves unless they are taught. And that is not his baby raves.
In the right dose, some experts say that techno music and babies raves can be beneficial for children and parents.
“The regulation of happiness and stress of parents is also important,” said Jenna Marcovitz, director of the UCLA Health Musicotherapy Program. “Techno can promote oxytocin and increase endorphins. It can foster joy and game and really support brain development, emotional regulation and really improve the father-son bond too.”
In the Roxy, a man vigorously pumped his fist to the rhythm of music.
“Punch fist like this!” He shouted the boy on his shoulders. Both fists, small and large, hit the air.
How to keep it safe and healthy
Glow Sticks was a popular accessory in the event.
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Everything, especially the baby's replicos, must be enjoyed in moderation. Pulsing music, inflatable giants thrown into the crowd and sudden fog explosions can overestimulate children.
For the show of approximately one hour, the music is noisy. Usually, established in 85 to 90 decibels, Pearce said. Having a sensory support plan is key, said Marcovitz, who recommends headphones with headphones with a noise reduction classification of 20 to 30 decibels or more, such as this one or this one. It is also useful to practice dance parties at home, so that your child knows what to expect.
In the Rave, look for signs of overestimulation, which can be presented differently with each child; Some can go out, while others can begin to pushed each other in the Mosh Pit style. In the Roxy Show, a child sat down, ate half a bag of golden fish cookies and poured the rest on the floor. Another disappeared in the crowd for alarming moments before being returned by a good Samaritan.
Young children crawl and lay down in the middle of the front baby crowd.
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“For any child, I would recommend breaks every 30 minutes,” said Marcovitz. “Go out”.
Because the techno promotes people, even young children, it is important to help a child regulate their nervous system after the show.
“Many hugs, silence and hugs,” said Marcovitz.
Pearce also begins the late party, so the dance party before the Rave can make children go to the children before taking the stage.
Ashley and Todd Herles led from Santa Clarita to Roxy so that their son, 3 years old, could meet Pearce before the show. They said they bought VIP tickets of $ 120, which included an encounter and greeting and table seats where Oliver reached the five Kuma in Pearce, Pearce's dance partner in a turquoise monkey suit. For the November 23 show of Pearce in the Novo in the center of Los Angeles, ticket prices currently range between $ 48 and $ 195, rates and taxes included.
In general, Oliver loved it, until he did not.
“[The] The collapse occurred around 1:40, so we left, ”said Ashley, 40.
They had great plans after the Rave to replace with french fries. But Oliver was tired.
And most importantly?
“Our back hurts,” Ashley said.
The children attacked their parents' shoulder music during the dance party.
