Thanksgiving is a time for spending time with your family, stuffing your face with incredible food and being thankful for what we have. Over the weekend, dance music fans gave thanks to the techno gods for bringing German indoor dance music festival Time Warp stateside to the 39th Street Pier in Brooklyn for its 20th anniversary.
Taking place on Friday, Nov. 28, and Saturday, Nov. 29, the two-day festival featured a lineup that included house and techno heavyweights like Richie Hawtin, Luciano, Dixon, Sven Väth, Joseph Capriati, Dubfire:liveHYBRID, The Martinez Brothers and others. The festival was seemingly successful, but one incident has caught headlines after the festival.
One of the premiere DJs on the lineup, Richie Hawtin, was showing off his moves in the booth, and upon seeing a young woman standing there filming the whole thing on her iPhone, he vented his frustration by pushing a monitor onto the fan.
After the dust settled and fans had seen the video of him pushing the speaker into the iPhone-wielding fan, Richie Hawtin took to his Facebook page to pen a public apology for the incident.
Coming from a musical lineage grounded in dark rooms and little photography, the transition to the smartphone and social media age has been jarring for him, where lights are always on him. In the note, he says he did not mean to push the speaker onto the girl and has tried to track her down to apologize personally, but has not been successful.
Read the full note below.
The girl reportedly did not suffer any injuries and her phone did not crack, so this will make her think twice before taking video of another disc jockey in the booth, via Dancing Astronaut.
