Exclusive | I saw Chris Lake live in Brooklyn. Hes a bucket list performer

It’s 4 p.m.on a breezy Sunday at Under the K Bridge Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Bubbles float in the sky and soft house music booms in the background.Chris Lake is set to perform at 7:30 after his Saturday show was canceled due to a thunderstorm.Today, he’ll put on a spectacle complete with two stages, multiple amateur artists, and a 2.5-hour set from the Scottish legend himself.Even though it’s still early in the day, the park is already starting to feel like its own little world under the bridge.

Groups of friends hop around in a circle at the second Renegade stage.Boomers, Millennials and Gen Zers bump their heads to the music at the main stage while sweat drips off their foreheads and whoops float through the crowd.Pre-show standouts Tiga and AYYBO played back-to-back building hype for Lake’s set.

The bass beats were heavy, tempos fluctuated around 130 BPM, and an elusive, inflatable giraffe made its way to the middle of the GA crowd, floating ever so slightly.At exactly 7:27 p.m., Lake arrived with a subtle smile on his face as he put on his headphones and hit the first track that included the line “Excuse me, you dropped something … the bass.” The crowd boomed, cheers echoing throughout.Surprisingly, only some fans knew the sample actually came from a viral video where a fan said the exact same thing to Chris.From there, the tempo never wavered, each song more bass-heavy than the last.

Before we knew it, Lake’s ultra-famous track “Beggin’” sounded.Fans in every direction knew the lyrics, screaming, well, begging for the 43-year-old turntablist to keep playing.

Hips swayed, somewhere out of the corner of my eye, I spotted smelling salts being passed around, and a couple kissed, swooning as the heavy drop hit.He didn’t hesitate to give nods to other DJs either.Lake built a remix of Jello & Andrew Son’s “Bring ’Em Out” in with a drop that echoed hard and fast, with hands, fists and hips all pumping in the same direction...