{"id":2446242,"date":"2019-07-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=309148"},"modified":"2019-07-11T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T22:00:00","slug":"louis-the-child-returns-to-headline-belly-up-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/louis-the-child-returns-to-headline-belly-up-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis the Child returns to headline Belly Up Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Louis the Child at X Games in January. The duo will headline Belly Up on Friday.<\/strong>
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When Louis the Child played the opening notes of \u201cBetter Not\u201d in January at the X Games music festival<\/a>, the sell-out crowd of some 5,000 fans let out a collective roar. What seemed like 5,000 cellphone cameras went up in the air, and hundreds of fans hopped on one another\u2019s shoulders. All the way up the hillside at the temporary Buttermilk music venue, small squadrons of revelers broke out into dance circles.<\/p>\n

With that kind of fevered response to Louis the Child\u2019s runaway 2018 hit, the Chicago-based DJ duo could have made the performance a lazy build-up to one explosive moment with their massive hit. They could have, but they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Louis the Child\u2019s Robby Hauldren and Freddy Kennett aren\u2019t those kinds of artists. They\u2019re aiming to do something more with their genre-hopping, feel-good spin on EDM and the uniquely personal relationship they\u2019re building with fans and the community that\u2019s growing around their music.<\/p>\n

In an interview before that show, Kennett described the Louis the Child mission as \u201ctrying to connect people, create happy moments, make it not about me and Robby but about what kinds of connections we can make with other people and how we can help them realize what is making them happy and what is making them sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

See them live and you see what he means. With that kind of connection to fans, it\u2019s no wonder they were the first band ever to sell out an afternoon show at X Games. The duo will return to Aspen to headline Belly Up \u2014 where they also played a late, intimate show over X Games weekend \u2014 tonight, the day after headlining Red Rocks Amphitheatre.<\/p>\n

Hauldren and Kennett began making music together when they were barely teenagers. They posted remixes and original EDM tracks on Soundcloud, and built some underground buzz around the city. Their 2015 breakout hit as Louis the Child, \u201cIt\u2019s Strange,\u201d came out when Hauldren was a freshman at the University of Southern California and Kennett was still in high school.<\/p>\n

A few years later, they\u2019re one of the hottest acts in pop music, riding on the success of last year\u2019s EP \u201cKids at Play.\u201d The duo\u2019s sunny, uplifting sound was born out of teenage angst. But rather than wallow in the darkness, Hauldren and Kennett sought to find light and hope in their genre-hopping style.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the music I was making then was stress relief and healing for myself,\u201d Kennett explained of those early days in a recent phone interview. \u201cAnd then that helped to reach people, because they felt that healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their melodic signature is a bright, distorted synthesizer sound that they harness to uplifting effect, making feel-good music that rejects the aggressive strand of EDM that was dominating the genre until the relatively recent emergence of tropical house and more cheerful Generation Z producers like Hauldren and Kennett.<\/p>\n

Louis the Child is coming off an explosive 2018 that included the release of the nine-song \u201cKids at Play\u201d and saw their \u201cBetter Not\u201d collaboration with the vocalist Wafia become one of the biggest hits of the year. The track has racked up more than 110 million streams on Spotify.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels wild,\u201d Hauldren said of their stratospheric ascent in pop music. \u201cWe\u2019ve accomplished a lot of things we\u2019ve dreamt of accomplishing. At the same time, we understand that this is another building block to getting where we want to be. \u2026 It\u2019s really awesome, but we\u2019re everyday grinding to make better music and keep delivering on that level.\u201d<\/p>\n

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