Expansion gains dance following
L.A. club-goers have to do a little extra work to find Expansion. First, unless you're a die-hard of the local electronic dance music scene, you might not know it exists. Then there's a 40-minute drive out of L.A. to the quiet mountains of Simi Valley, and a few extra minutes creeping up a valley of winding roads to a mansion resort that's hardly well known.Over the last year at remote Hummingbird Nest Ranch, a resort tucked into the cactus-strewn Santa Susana Mountains, the monthly Expansion event has gained cachet with DJs and fans. Hosting venerated beatmakers including Daedelus, DJ Nobody and the Gaslamp Killer, it's also a unique venue where some of the titans of the Low End Theory club nights in Lincoln Heights step out a world away.
"You see the art world and the club world intersect sometimes in L.A.," said Maggie Lucero, 21, of North Hollywood, a first timer to Expansion. "But rarely do you see that in a fancy location like this. I guess that's why I made the
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