On Friday night, Tom and I attended the “Skylent Disco” hosted by OUE Skyspace in Downtown LA. The tickets included admission to their silent disco as well as a ride on the sky slide! Unfortunately, the sky slide was closed due to rain. 🙁 However, we still got the tickets to come back at another time. In case you’re unfamiliar with what a silent disco is, it’s basically like dancing at a club, except the music comes through headphones. The headphones have 3 channels, each with a different DJ. Each channel has a designated color, so you can know what everyone else is listening to. If you don’t have the headphones on, it’s pretty silly looking – it looks as though everyone is dancing to nothing! If everyone is singing a song, it’s extra funny, because all you would hear is their singing and no music.
We started the night off by walking through Skyspace’s cool exhibits, which include a time lapse video of Los Angeles at night, a video that tracks your movements, and a cool shaped mirror with lights that goes down who knows how far into the floor (seen below)!
Once we got upstairs (about seventy-nine stories high!) it was time to pick up our headphones and start dancing. The three channels were color-coded. The blue channel was EDM, the red channel was hip hop, and the green channel played songs from the 80s to early 2000s. Oddly enough, the red channel played quite a bit of Salsa type music. It was great and fun to dance to, but I’m not sure why they had it on the hip hop channel. Check out some pictures from our night!
Occasionally, the power would get kind of wonky. Two of the DJ channels would drop out and the cool colored lights would turn off and the regular lights would come back on. This happened two or three times, but they always got the lights and DJ channels working again within the minute, so it wasn’t a real disturbance. However, for some reason, the blue channel (EDM) seemed to never go out. The last time the other channels went out, Tom laughed and yelled, “You’re my boy, blue!” Haha, he’s silly.
Overall, this was a super fun event and if they host it again, I’d highly recommend it! Their website (linked at the top of this article) has an events page, so I’d keep on eye on that. You can also follow them on Facebook, since Tom and I found out about this via Facebook Events. I also recommend following Time Out Los Angeles on Facebook since they post a lot of cool events as well. Especially since this event was hosted between both OUE Skyspace and Time Out Los Angeles!
Have you ever been to a silent disco? What was your favorite part? Let me know in the comments!
Cameron Butler
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