# @thefader on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DE73eqkTa4i
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/26040199-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-01-17T17:40:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

In 2012, when the world became apocalypse-obsessed as the end of the Mayan calendar grew near, British DJ Damian Lazarus saw it as a sign to throw Day Zero, an 18-hour rave deep in the Yucatan jungle about 30 minutes by car from the city proper.⁠
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"I arrive in Tulum four days before the festival begins to attend Lazarus’ new album release party which includes a coin-bending Swiss mentalist, indigenous Mayan dancers, and a performance from Ghanaian multimedia artist Jojo Abot," writes hamiltonthemixtape. "As my trip goes on, I realize I am not built to party in Tulum. The shows here have very little to do with the ones I like to go to in New York, and I stick out like a sloppily dressed sore thumb in the designer-clad crowds. I’m happy to be here but start to wonder why I came. My state of mind quickly spirals into a full-blown existential crisis: I am terrified of Day Zero, I realize. Still, when Saturday night rolls around, I embark on a journey to the center of the bass."⁠
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Read Raphael Helfand's scene report from Tulum at the link in bio.⁠
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📸 Alive Coverage⁠
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#DamianLazarus #DayZero

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