{"id":13086,"date":"2026-10-02T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/inside-the-despacio-tent-at-portola-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:37:09","slug":"inside-the-despacio-tent-at-portola-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/inside-the-despacio-tent-at-portola-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Despacio Tent at Portola 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Despacio tent is a temple of music for audio geeks, and the brainchild of LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy, <!--more--> Stephen and David Dewaele of 2manydjs aka Soulwax, and audio engineer John Klett. First created in 2013, Despacio makes its way from festival to festival, blasting dancers with vintage vinyl from seven McIntosh speaker stacks that make up the 50,000-watt sound system along with the lighting rig and iconic disco ball that complete the experience. CNET social producer Faith Chihil got a chance to catch it at Portola Music Festival in San Francisco and here\u2019s what she found. #despacio #portolamusicfestival #festival #audiophile #vinyl<\/p>\n<p>Video Credits:<br \/>\nHost &amp; Editor: Faith Chihil<\/p>\n<p>Add CNET as a trusted news source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=cnet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=cnet.com<\/a><br \/>\nNever miss a deal again! See CNET\u2019s browser extension \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lO7sOU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lO7sOU<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out CNET\u2019s Amazon Storefront: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/shop\/cnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/shop\/cnet<\/a><br \/>\nSubscribe to CNET on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/cnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/cnet<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@cnetdotcom<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cnet<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on Bluesky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cnet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cnet.com<\/a><br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cnet<\/a><br \/>\nCNET&#8217;s AI Atlas: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/ai-atlas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/ai-atlas<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on X: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.x.com\/cnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.x.com\/cnet<\/a><br \/>\nVisit CNET.com:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Despacio tent is a temple of music for audio geeks, and the brainchild of LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}