RiverBeats – Rippling State Bridge this Weekend!

State Bridge, Bonfire Entertainment and the Madero Group are pleased to present more than 20 electronic acts over two days this weekend with Michal Menert, Eliot Lipp and Ana Sia headlining the second annual RiverBeats festival along the mighty Colorado. Samples, Knight Riderz and David Starfire are among the festival’s other performers.

Menert (pictured below) was born in Kielce, Poland while the country was under communist rule. As a young child, he and his parents fled to the United States by way of West Germany, becoming political refugees. During his childhood, Menert’s father exposed him to a wide variety of Eastern and Western music, giving the boy fertile soil in which to plant his musical visions early on. Coming from a background of playing guitar, keyboards and dabbling in a variety of other instruments, Michal acquired a unique approach to composing his own musical style.

Menert grew up in Colorado with Derek Vincent Smith of Pretty Lights, and together they played in several bands, challenging and inspiring each other as they developed their own unique production styles. Menert co-produced the debut Pretty Lights album, “Taking Up Your Precious Time,” and has collaborated with Smith on a handful of tracks since then.

Menert’s solo album, “Dreaming of A Bigger Life,” was released on Pretty Lights Music in the spring of 2010. His sound combines obscure vintage samples from both Eastern European and Western vinyl with rich analog synthesis and organic hard-hitting beats. It is a fusion of yesterday’s elements and tomorrow’s ideas.

Ana Siaâs love of electronic music combined with an innate understanding of the value of dance collectively fuse to create unforgettable sets of experience, whether she is slamming spots in her hometown of San Francisco or taking her turn in the forests of music festivals around the country.

Anaâs energetic delivery of brain-fazing beats has earned the “Princess Slay-ah” an important spot in pioneering the West Coast future sound movement. She will take you on a musical expedition into the deepest reaches of your brain, as she masterfully blends a wide spectrum of rhythms with a beautiful fluidity and a delicate sensibility, giving the dance floor a delightful ride that ends at the corner of bliss and oblivion.

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