18 years of live music. From NC State house parties to NOLA Jazz Fest to Kraftwerk. This is what it looks like when electronic music is your religion.
178 shows over 18 years, but not evenly distributed. Your concert life has a clear shape: discovery, a dip, a NYC interlude, then an explosion — and parenthood didn't slow you down. It accelerated you.
You prefer the 800–1,100 cap sweet spot: big enough for real production, small enough to feel the artist. Terminal West is your church. 17 shows over 12 years. The Eastern is your new home (2022 onward).
Venue capacity vs. how many times you've been. The sweet spot is 800–1,100.
84–91% of your Spotify listening hours fall in the electronic umbrella — every year, without exception, since 2012. Your concert choices confirm it. This isn't a phase. This is your native frequency.
Range: 84–91% across every year 2012–2024. You went more electronic after kids, not less.
Your genre arc within electronic: liquid DnB (2012–14) → nu-disco/indie electronic (2015–18) → downtempo/world (2019–20) → everything simultaneously (2021+). But the 87% electronic floor never moved.
Cross-referenced your 71-friend CRM. 100% of friends tagged "Music" are also tagged "Dance" — same activity, same people. These 7 are the ones who answer the text blast.
iMessage archives show a clear behavioral signature: when you find a show, you mass-text 5–7 people within hours. Every time.
This is concert evangelism as social infrastructure. The show is the pretext. The connection is the point. External structure (a time, a place, a specific artist) removes the executive-function cost of open-ended "let's hang out."
Your two heaviest Spotify artists of all time — Camo & Krooked (62 hrs) and Tosca (52 hrs) — you've never seen live. Your streaming taste leans heavily European. Atlanta's touring market doesn't book most of them.
The artists you stream most but can't see: Camo & Krooked, London Elektricity, High Contrast, Danny Byrd, Mr. Scruff — all UK/European. They don't tour Atlanta. This is the entire backstory of your DnB era existing only in headphones.
Spring (Feb–May) and fall (Sep–Nov) are your peak windows. Atlanta's touring circuit hits the Southeast in those weather windows, and you hit back.
Out of 178 shows, a handful defined the whole arc.
Seven observations that are harder to argue with now that there are 178 data points behind them.