r/lane8

I have a dinky 2012 JBL flip that should have been retired many many years ago. I LOVE how heavy the bass is at Lane 8 shows and while I know a home system or bluetooth speaker is nothing close to a live show, I’d love an upgrade from my current setup. Does anyone have recommendations for a bluetooth speaker that is heavy on bass?

Listened to my Cross Pollination 2 vinyl yesterday evening and was kind of taken aback by how great I thought it sounded. It was almost like experiencing all these tracks over again for the first time. Not sure if it’s a particularly well executed vinyl master or something with my home setup, but either way I thought it sounded fantastic!

Very excited to dig into the bonus tracks for this one. The album grew on me greatly during repeat listens. Felt very introspective, personal.

Circus Act was a post release drop and is probably one of my all time favorite tracks from Wes.

Anyone else having issues with Leap Events links and getting access to their tickets online?

I saw this post over in the EF sub and it got me to wondering, has anyone else experienced anything transcendent or even "spiritual" (however you define that) at a Lane 8 set? I'm talking truly unique and extraordinary in your personal history. I've been to 4 sets now and they were each incredible and euphoric in their own ways, but at Electric Forest 2023, something truly strange came over me and just coursed through me for a good 15 minutes. I have no idea what it was, but I've never experienced anything like it before or since. It was something like a certain party favor that starts with the letter M, but much more intense and I was not on that at the time (not that party favors in any way diminish one's accounts in my estimation). Anyway, I'm curious, if anyone is comfortable sharing. See y'all later on down the trails!

A month before COVID, February 2020, my buddy gifted our other friend Brightest Lights on Vinyl. He had a setup.

I knew The Road and maybe 2 other singles.

We went on a house boat that summer, care free, and Brightest Lights had made it’s way through the JBL countless times.

I was an Apple Music guy, still am. That’s boded well as a fan to be honest. Apple gang, you get it.

I’d moved to Vancouver January 2020, met some good guys. But these lads were pretty new, I had one mutual friend. Whatever. These guys liked skiing. Serious business skiing. Learned to shred pretty well.

Year passes.

Buds in (headphones, cords) no airpods yet. Whistler Season’s pass, you have to.

Lane 8 (my friend’s always called him ocho, I stuck with it), drops Winter 2021.

Addiction takes hold. For some reason I remember falling in love with the Qrion track as my start, would see her in Stanley Park (proper) soon enough.

But fast forward 3 seasons.

Fall 2022 Mixtape would change my life.

New JBL acquired I’m a super fan of Lane 8 at this point. Running the sea wall, this dude is HIM.

Fall 2022 drops, and to this day in 2026, I don’t think I’ve heard a better run from front to back. Vice grip on me, there’s no compilation as good as Fall 2022.

I can start 00:00, Scythe, Caramel, or Ellie, and say “buckle up” to anyone listening, every single time.

No skips, common. Face in palms? Every song for me.

The last hour of this tape rocks. Like euphorically, its epic.

I truly think it’s the best work Daniel is ever gonna drop for me, and that’s ok. It’s gas. I got a tattoo of the TNH logo in 2023. Left thigh. Filled the now half-sleeve there.

It was genuinely because of the Fall 2022 tape.

I have hundreds of spins on it.

Fast forward… I moved to Toronto for work. A year in I flew back to Vancouver again with the new girlfriend, to see Lane 8, back where it started, Stanley Park.

Share what you love. She had fun.

I have a couple buddies that I send every favourite song, off every single mix.

Unfortunately they have Spotify.

Summer 2026 I’m sending them timestamps it’s so good. They need to do their own work.

Fall 2022 changed my life,

Sandpaper

I was super pumped for the Lane 8 + Sultan and Shepherd show at Silo (Dallas) last month (it was a big birthday celebration to/for myself) and tbh I was super disappointed. I really just think I was having a bad night. Maybe I was under the weather, but it was just so super chill and didn’t have the energy of the previous Lane 8 + S&S b2b shows. Did anybody else feel the same?

Honestly, would love to hear some success stories and hearing that other people had an amazing time will make me feel way better about my sub-par night.

As I write this, (I’m a very positive person in general), I’m really wanting to hear more about y’alls awesome experiences as opposed to affirming my crappy night.

Go!

New single from a legendary ambient artist right into one of the biggest Ibiza tracks of the summer... 3 hours into the set. Ridiculous