Reitz Union Board Entertainment will present its biggest free concert of the Fall tonight with electronic musician XXYYXX.
The show is free and open to the public and will be held at 8 p.m. in the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., and wristbands will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at 7 p.m. outside the ballroom. No backpacks are allowed.
XXYYXX, née Marcel Everett, is a 17-year-old electronic musician and producer from Orlando signed to the Relief in Abstract record label. Fellow Relief in Abstract artists Marble and Fortune Howl will open for XXYYXX.
Alyssa Broderick, a 20-year-old UF advertising junior and RUB Entertainment bands director, said his music is very sample-based.
“He sampled Beyoncé songs and Amy Winehouse, and he’ll pitch up the vocals so you can’t really tell what the sample is,” she said. “It’s really awesome.”
Abigail Gruspe, a 19-year-old UF food science and human nutrition junior and RUB Entertainment bands director, said the group focuses on indie music and is excited to bring XXYYXX to UF.
RUB Entertainment is funding the event, but the directors would not disclose information about the cost.
Broderick said they had been talking to the agents back and forth since July and expect about 500 people to attend.
Ambar Mejia, a 21-year-old linguistics and journalism senior, said she considered skipping class for the show, but her professor canceled class. Mejia first heard of XXYYXX at a Hundred Waters concert at High Dive last year. Since that day, she tried to see him perform again.
“There’s moments of my life where I just loop XXYYXX,” she said. “Definitely hoping he plays ‘Good Enough.’”
A version of this story ran on page 4 on 10/17/2013 under the headline "XXYYXX to sample electronic music at UF"
