Likewise, if you go to a Dash Berlin show and try to start a pit, you’re probably a huge asshole. If you go to a bass show and complain about pits, well, you should know what you were getting yourself into. However, the energy and aggression so inherently present in bass music calls for a different way of dancing and expression. They are not the place for such aggressive dancing. You’ll never see a house or trance track condoning pits because they are not present at those shows, and they shouldn’t be. And there are actually tracks that are coming out that apparently condone pits, but they’re all bass music.
I mostly go to bass shows (drum & bass, dubstep, a little bit of trap) and pits are the norm there. But, I also feel that mosh pits have an appropriate time and place. Saying that moshing should be banned when you don’t really know the real meaning behind it is very much jumping the gun. But, let’s look at this objectively - they are not moshing, they are brawling. I agree that at many events, people have begun to take it too far. It only serves to create a schism between those who support moshing and those who don’t, but both of these groups still love EDM. We’ve already seen with kandi that banning is obviously not the best answer.
Mosh pits meaning how to#
You can look at this handy guide on how to mosh properly. When you think about it, mosh pits, when done correctly, reflect everything that EDM is supposed to be about, namely having fun at a show and making friends in the process. Instead, what I saw were great big smiles and consideration for those in the pit (i.e., when girls entered the pit, the guys became significantly less rough). The pit was filled with large, burly men who could easily pick me up and throw me if they wanted to. One of my fondest memories in a pit was at a Flogging Molly show, an Irish punk rock band. They are a true exercise in community values and trust. Punk fans know what it means to truly mosh – it means shoving and not hitting it means when someone falls down, everything stops to pick them back up it means if someone is tying their shoe at the border, you form a barrier around them to keep them safe. And if you’ve never been in a pit at a non-EDM event, I couldn’t blame you for being unaware. However, when moshing first entered the music scene in Southern California in the early 1980s, it couldn’t have been more different. I’ve been personally knocked out from a mosh pit, and I know friends whose noses have been broken, and whose clothes have been ripped, so I can completely empathize with the idea that moshing is bad, or that it should be removed from events entirely. Moshing, as most EDM fans know it, is pretty much exactly as I’ve described above – a lawless pit of jacked up bros swinging their elbows and ramming into each other with the intention of inflicting the most pain or damage as possible. Wait a second… that’s not moshing, that’s a brawl. Moshing leads to broken bones, fights at shows, and a lot of discomfort for those surrounding the pit. You might recognize this sentence from a recent editorial by EDM.com on moshing, and why it should be banned from EDM. “What once began as a cluster of people vigorously bouncing around and head-banging, has quickly found its way of evolving into a full-scale warzone atmosphere at times, and more and more people seem to be leaving these mosh pits with bruises, sore limbs, and even broken bones as a result.”
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